But hey, if they want to shoot themselves in the foot underestimating the willing spending power of fans...their loss.
No, it's OUR loss. Who gives a damn if they cheat themselves out of additional profits?
Well,
they should, I would think.
We wanted the original work, the restored pieces, the corrected soundtrack, the interviews and the commentary. This group of fans has been waiting for decades, and loyalty deserves better than this.
Heck, don't get me wrong, if the movies came out separately, fully restored and with all the goodies, I'd buy them in a heartbeat.
But the fact of the matter is, in hard terms, fan loyalty is not an issue when it comes to business decisions. The bottom line is dollars and cents - namely, turning the biggest profit with the lowest investment possible. Sounds cold-hearted, but that's how it is.
Sure, all of
us would love to have the DVDs with the whole shebang, but that would mean much more of an investment on the part of the company to do what needs to be done to get all those goodies. Before companies are ready to do that, they usually want to know what kind of return they'll get on their investment. And unless fan loyalty can be guaranteed into a decent profit for their investment, it's not going to be considered.
Obviously releasing HODS and NODS as two restored movies with goodies would raise the price of the individual DVDs beyond the price of what one double-sided DVD without restoration and extras would cost. No idea what they
would cost individually, but are there any numbers as far as the dollars and cents angle of producing the DVDs versus at least a decent estimate of potential purchasers?
Because when it comes down to debating the issue with WB, it's going to have to be on the strength of dollars and cents. And if it really turns out the numbers are so great versus production investment that it's just a matter of we fans - and even folks who are just interested in collecting classic horror movies - encouraging them to do the math and guarantee their investment risk...well, who knows?
Looks like there's still a year to debate this with them if the numbers can be crunched in our favor.
