Comments on: Warner Begins Selling On Demand DVDs Direct to Customers

By: Warner Archive Geeks Out With Con-Season Sale » DVDs Worth Watching

Warner Archive Geeks Out With Con-Season Sale » DVDs Worth Watching — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:55:25 +0000

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Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:07:50 +0000

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By: Steel and the Warner Archive » DVDs Worth Watching

Steel and the Warner Archive » DVDs Worth Watching — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:10:25 +0000

[...] Warner Archive DVD-on-demand program has expanded its coverage. Now it’s not just old movies but includes [...]

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:42:21 +0000

If it isn’t available, it might suck (although given how much stuff that sucks IS available, I’m not sure that’s true) or it might just be that not enough people want it. Supply/demand curve, and all that.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:51:25 +0000

There’s a reason some of these titles are not available. (Perhaps many reasons.) In most cases, if it is not available as a vhs tape or a dvd, it is because it isn’t very good.

And $20 is way too high a price for old movies. I just today saw an ad for Twilight at $17. If fresh, in-demand movies go for $17, old trash should go for much less.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:30 +0000

I have been asking and waiting and hoping for a service like this for years. I think the studio is going to end up making more money this way off of a title like “The Devil Is a Sissy” than they would if they mass-produced it and threw it on store shelves for 10 bucks. In fact, I’ve never heard of “The Devil Is A Sissy” but I’m seriously considering ordering a copy, simply because it’s called “The Devil Is A Sissy”

As for comics-on-demand, I think DC could do well by printing complete storylines on-demand, especially storylines that are out of print or have never been collected. Single issues, maybe not so much.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:27:46 +0000

I purposely picked a high price. After all, $20 for a bare-bones DVD in low demand is 2-4 times the regular price. If I’d pay $4 for a regular comic, a print-on-demand one might be $8-12. POD pricing is usually higher than I’d like for comparable works, based on the webcomic collections I’ve seen.

By: Chris G.

Chris G. — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:20:23 +0000

A large comics publisher could make the price dependent on how much you want printed — maybe $5 for a single issue, $10 for a collection of four to six issues, and so on to whatever the maximum feasible number of pages in a volume would be. They could also add bells and whistles for paper stocks, formats, customizable covers, etc.

By: Jer

Jer — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:02:36 +0000

Can you imagine if Warner did this for DC comics? Any title available printed on demand for, let’s say, $9.95?

If you mean any single issue for $10 printed on demand, then I don’t think the service would fly. $10 for one issue is such a high price that while I think some folks would use it for certain things. Trying to get ahold of a reprint of certain Golden Age or Silver Age books that don’t get put in collections but are hard to come by, for example. I doubt the niche would be large enough to sustain the infrastructure.

If you mean any of their out-of-print collections printed on demand – I think that would be a great idea. But I think the price would be much higher than $10 – probably closer to $20 or maybe more. Depending on the page count. But it is something I’d love to see – I think we may finally reach a point in my lifetime where there’s no such thing as an “out of print” book of any kind – prose, poetry, textbook, reference work or graphic novel, and I’d love to see that.