Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format

Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by hga on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:08PM (#7373707)

What these bundles are telling us---and they're fairly common in US market anime---is that the price of pressing a DVD is so cheap it's better to make one SKU with both. Probably also encourages people to buy a Blu-Ray player as well if they still haven't.

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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by sliverstorm on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:19PM (#7373794)

And that's fine, but the bundle seems to be used to justify higher prices. "Oh, well it would be $10, but you get both a Blu-ray and a DVD, so we have to charge you $20"

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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by hga on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:30PM (#7373884)

Bleah. I haven't noticed that in the US anime market, but prices are all over the map as companies seek better/sustainable business models. Anime suffered from the general decline in DVD sales, and the decrease in retail outlets, like The Musicland Group (Musicland, Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, On Cue, and Media Play superstores) going poof after Best Buy bought them.

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