Mar 23 2009Warner Gets in the DVD Burning Business
Following in the footsteps of my download-crazy friend in college, Warner Bros. has announced a new on-demand service where they will burn DVDs, complete with packaging, for you:
The studio's home entertainment division has come up with an innovative plan to allow custom ordering of 150 films never before released on DVD. Dubbed the Warner Archive Collection, an online vault of films including 1942's "Once Upon a Honeymoon," starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers, and 1947's "Possessed," with Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, can be tapped by consumers visiting WarnerArchive.com.Upon the selection and purchase of a title -- at $19.95 per disc -- Warners will burn, package and ship the DVD to customers for receipt within an estimated five days. The studio plans to increase initial inventory in its virtual vault by 20 titles per month and make more than 300 film and TV titles available online by year's end.
Why not just make them available for downloading or streaming? In this video-on-demand age, this is printing out emails for grandma. But I guess, seeing that grandmas are probably one of the biggest audiences for 1942's Once Upon a Honeymoon, that makes some sense. Just make sure grandma can somehow order these DVDs during her weekly Walmart trip.
Reader Comments
1. blp - March 23, 2009 5:07 PM
Good luck with that, they'll need it. I remember the early days of DVD when I happily paid £20 for a DVD because I couldn't get the quality elsewhere. Now I wouldn't pay $20 let alone £20. We're in a recession, nobody is buying DVDs Warner! I'm hoping the bad economy and internet piracy has scared Hollywood into upping their quality of entertainment instead of remakes and the same old unoriginal shit because it's been a long time since I've been to a cinema or bought a DVD.
2. Nathiest - March 23, 2009 5:30 PM
When I was a teen I use to sell copies of porn sex tapes in high school. I made around $300-$350 weekly till the pimps in my school got pisst because I was taking away their business. I quit school got my GED. (GED beats DEAD)
Anyhoo, Coping DVD's for resale is wrong.
3. sully - March 23, 2009 7:33 PM
i say we burn ALL the DVDs!!! yah-ha-ha-ha (cackle)!
No, I don't work for BluRay
4. CrackedPepper - March 24, 2009 9:47 AM
This is the dumbest idea I've ever heard. In my experience, the only bootlegs that get sold are the new releases. Not only that but $20 for a 60 year old Clark Gable movie? That you'll recieve in 5 days? Seriously, why not just stream them?
5. Mr. Stratford - March 24, 2009 10:40 AM
Yeah, I can see offering the DVD or Disc as an added option but as the main selling point is just retarded. How much are they charging for an audio tape of the soundtrack?
6. wendy - March 25, 2009 3:00 PM
Weekly Walmart trip? You don't know a lot about Grandmas do you? They go every day, buy a banana and talk to the cashier for 8 minutes.
7. merso - April 4, 2009 5:57 AM
http://apple-idvd.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-convert-avi-to-dvd-on-mac.html
8. merso - April 4, 2009 6:02 AM
Want to know how to burn a movie that is stored on your hard drive in AVI format so that you can watch it on a standard DVD player?This is an important question for most of us with digital camcorders. You can simply burn them to CD or DVD to share with friends and family who have computers, but if you want to send a movie to grandma or someone who doesn’t have a computer, you are stuck. With the right DVD Burner software, making a DVD for them is not too difficult.
http://apple-idvd.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-convert-avi-to-dvd-on-mac.html