Warner discs have been priced at £15.99 from day one (they started releasing in Sept 98), and the others have been £19.99 RRP although a lot of big brand stores charged OVER the RRP for them - HMV and Virgin in the first instance.

Then Fox came along - their first few releases had ridiculously high RRPs, cue the Fox boycott and all that fun Now I think pretty much all single-disc DVD releases are <£20 RRP, which is a good thing, and most of them are available much cheaper on offer somewhere or other.

Prices have "mass-marketised" very quickly, compared to other such products. It took a lot longer for similar price falls to happen in VHS and CD's history, and they NEVER happened with laserdisc.

Mark

If i remember this article was on BBC News

I think it said that there were 10 million DVD players in the 3 years since launch, making it the fastest selling piece of home entertainment ever.

I stand corrected about the prices of the discs, from my point of view all I saw were the discs at £20 or more - I don't ever remember seeing discs for less.

I see Warner Bros are leading the way again with the latest prices - they are pretty much the cheapest DVD's you can find anywhere.

Yup, Warner and Entertainment in Video... although the packaging on EiV titles is so awful I'd rather they were more expensive...

' "The BEST FILM EVER" - The Sunday Sport' plastered all over the cover of Seven or some other such thing... that's just a guessed example, i'm not sure if that's true, but they do things like that.

From September '98, WHSmiths started stocking DVDs at RRP - I remember as I was the first ever person to buy a DVD at my local WHSmiths

Mark

The Warner titles are cheap in proce and cheap in quality.
From packaging to picture quality, they ooze cheapness.

OK, there are a few exceptions but on the whole Warner are the worst DVDs I have seen.

They have few extras (if any at all) and the pic quality on some of them is worse than VHS. Goodfellas, Beetlejuice & Interview Vampire are a few examples.

Sorry , just want to add my 2c .
It's not just the picture quality , sound etc. My wife doesn't speak English . The format is ideal for us . We can watch movies in Spanish with English subtitles or vice versa. I buy most of my DVDs on-line from Spanish dealers or from play247 .
Paul

Nope, the cover for Seven is just plain black with the title on the front.

True. American History X then. American Psycho. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Wild Things. etc etc etc etc.

I did manage to pick about the only DVD EiV have released that hasn't got abjectly awful packaging (although the original UK release of Seven DID have awful packaging), however even that is nowhere NEAR as nice as the truly gorgeous US packaging for Seven. Ditto for Magnolia actually, both have really nice packaging in the states, and in comparison pretty plain and boring packaging in the UK.

Mark

Yeah, when i picked the DVD box up at you know where, i thought, "mmm, looks a bit tacky." It certainly didnt make me want to rush and buy it, sort of put me off it until i read the back

One of the best DVD covers/boxes ive seen recently is Unbreakable.