SOLD OUT: Limited Editions, Scalpers, and FOMO - Feat. Filmmaker J.R. Bookwalter
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- BY POPULAR DEMAND: In this episode, we take a deep dive into the world of limited editions, low print runs, scalpers, and selling discs with the fear of missing out! Cereal At Midnight welcomes writer/producer/director and Makeflix distributor J.R. Bookwalter for a conversation that looks at both sides of a complicated issue!
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Great conversation Heath! It's good to hear from someone in the industry discussing the pros and cons of collecting and watching home media. Thanks for sharing this, hope all is well my friend!
My problem is the two sides of my brain are fighting each other, the be patient side and the fear of missing out side. Right now I'm picking up my favorites and I'll hope for the best in the future.
Like he said, if you see something you want, buy it. I tend to procrastinate but I’ve gotten into the habit of not waiting. After 35 years of collecting media, I’ve learned this to be true.
This video/topic is a long time coming and I'm Very Happy that Cereal At Midnight (One of The Best channels for physical media....And More !) is taking the time and initiative to start the conversation rolling. Thank you sir !
I still collect tons of movies on laserdisc and vhs. Many times I do this for the art work but also for the fact of having that format version in my collection. I have Rocky on many of these formats including “CED”!
Same here. I buy some Media for the Art. I collect select VHS for the artwork and the nostalgia.
Love J.R. met him at Cinema Wasteland years ago. He is a great independent director. Really fun conversation. Really great information.
Interesting video/interview.
I'm more of a mainstream genre TV buyer than being into obscure 1980s direct-to VHS stuff (nothing wrong with those - fill your boots everyone!), but over here in the UK even the mainstream stuff's getting difficult.
The big one at the moment is Doctor Who.
The classic series BD collections are only available here as limited editions and they're selling out on pre-order. Same thing happened a couple of months back with the steelbook of the 50th anniversary episodes.
The latter really got people steamed up as those discs have now been out twice, but both times as limited edition sets. People who want it are still being left without copies, and what's worse is that it's the only way to get The Day of the Doctor in the UK without faulty sound and at the correct framerate. Hell, it's the only way to get An Adventure in Space and Time here in HD at all.
No surprises, the scalpers are having a field day. Set after set selling on eBay for double the price or more that people might have been able to pre-order it at before the retailers had to pull their shutters down.
To see so many copies being listed by private sellers, unopened, never watched... and presumably bought with no intention of ever doing so. No one's coming out on top there.
I just want to be able to watch the episodes at my leisure in HD, whenever I want - fortunately I managed to pre-order a copy and it arrrived safely - but it's certainly taking a lot of the fun out of being a fan these days.
Great conversation, Heath, and great to see Mr. Bookwalter on the channel! Enjoying the SOV Six-Pack.
We use to be able to find a lot of cool stuff in store for decent prices but it has gotten pretty bad where it resorted me to becoming a reseller to continue to collect. Just the past two weeks I've done quick drive bys of my local thrift stores, finding a lot of stuff i already own, allowing me to flip it online SO that I can buy newer releases. Only feasible way for me to do it. If I can buy a disc for less than a dollar and flip it for 10, I can still continue to get new releases and discover new movies. Especially with how companies are selling more and more boxsets to make it easier to sell more movies. I doubt Severin would be able to sell their Al Adamson movies separate and do super well BUT charge 200 dollars for a boxset, and I'm sure they can get their money back and a bit more.
Great video!! I missed out on the Arrow Tsukamoto box set. I think it will come around again but $300 plus on Ebay now! Ugh.
The move to a collector's market has its advantages and disadvantages. The big advantage is of course that it keeps physical media alive. On the disadvantage side, it definitely creates an air of FOMO and people just buy these limited editions to put them on the shelf and never watch them, as long as they get it before the others. Personally I'm somewhere between a collector and a movie buff-fan-cinephile whatever. I am very aware of collectability factor - the packaging, the artwork, all the stuff that make a release unique. But on the other hand, I don't stand at attention at every limited edition like a Pavlovian dog. I only buy what interests me and I WATCH everything I buy, usually within a span of a couple of months. Even if it's something I watched before (which in most cases it is). I think there are many collectors that are simply into the buying. Every time there's a sale you see people say how they bought 20 titles in the last sale. So great, they got it in a great price and now it's out of print. But will they ever watch it? Who cares? They got a great price! That's all that matters. So oop movies are sitting on shelves never to be watched, while people like me who just want to buy movies to watch them can't get them anymore. I decided long ago I'm not participating in this race. If a movie is out of print when I get to it, then I have to accept that it won't be added to my collection.
There are definitely quite a few people buying movies with no intentions of ever watching them, and that will likely always confuse me. Seeing people talking here in the comments about buying multiple copies and also buying movies for the cover art, and not for the movie. I don't even know how to talk about that aspect of collecting. I've always tried to be very clear that my vast media collection is a side effect of me wanting to watch the stuff in the first place. With my purchase comes access that can never be taken away. To each their own, and I understand if that makes people happy, by my singular goal at this channel has always been to encourage people to watch, read, and listen to cool things. For me, the magic is in the stories themselves.
@@CerealAtMidnight I don't think they buy movies consciously knowing they'll never watch them. But many collectors are influenced by marketing tactics such as scarcity and sales and buy movies they may not be really interested in or they simply have too many titles on their shelves. One thing I'll say for you, Heath, as far as I can tell, when you watch something, 9 out of 10 times you'll watch it on physical. If I'm having 200 unwatched movies on my shelf, and 5 streaming services on top of that, what am I doing?!
@@CerealAtMidnight Also, I may be deluding myself by refusing to play in the game of "get it now or it's gone", I know. but I have a budget for this, I know what I'm going for, if I'm jumping every time there's a limited edition or a sale then I'm throwing all this planning to the wind and simply buy impulsively. I might do it now and again if it's something I REALLY want, but more often than not I have to bite my teeth. Yes, I want to support the labels, but there's also limit to how much impulsive buying I can afford. At the end of the day, if you spent 40$ on 4 titles, but you're really interested in only one of them, did you really get a good deal? Or did you really buy it because it was on sale and you'll never watch the other three but you may be preventing someone else from buying them, someone who's actually interested in them, by contributing to their future scarcity? The distributors don't care because they make their money anyway. It's just how we think of it as a community. Anyway, just my personal opinion here. My philosophy is buy what you're interested in regardless of marketing tactics. I would pay 30$ for a movie I really want instead of 30$ for 3 movies i don't care about.
You're right, I don't do much streaming at all. Bree does stream almost exclusively, though. I'm not opposed to streaming, but it does tend to be very unreliable for me and the kinds of movies I like to watch, so the disc reigns supreme for me. Also, I'm with you: buy what you're interested in.
Great vid and a slightly different approach to some toobers who have touched on this FOMO topic. It's a topic all collectors battle at some stage or another for sure.
I try and pre-order everything I think I'll want but you don't always have the money and sometimes by the time you are able to get it then it goes OOP and is going for 300 plus (like the Blood Island set which I missed and still don't have) and you really then have to decide if it's of enough value to you intrinsically to justify that (and that you can afford to part with that cash without negative impacts to your life, foregoing bills and mortgage payments etc). I'm better off these days and can waste money on physical media but I've definitely delayed bills to ensure I can secure a pre-order in the past and that's not a good thing!
One thing I was curious about was the (hopefully flippant) example in the vid of plants that press the discs shutting down and then physical media is in trouble etc. Well clearly between DVD, Blu ray and 4k it's still a huge and profitable market so that isn't happening anytime soon. 5-10 years plus who knows but certainly not in the next 5 given its a multi billion industry. But...any insights into the plant situation? How many there are....do they make money etc? I note most discs I get from the USA (even boutique labels) say they are made in Mexico but is that the case, the printed cover sheet? The disc itself? Does the US have these facilities anymore or is it all outsourced overseas such as in Mexico? Can these factors impact one day on physical media availability if world events cause strife and trouble?
That can of course go either way - covid caused lots of delays in 2020 on physical media and most prominently in shipping delays (or direct access to markets - I couldn't order direct to Australia from Amazon US for large parts of 2020). Yet it was also one of the best years for physical media releases in living memory, if not the best.
People talk about the death of physical media when they see Best Buy shrinking. But we have only one really prominent physical media store in Australia (JB HI Fi) which also sells many other goods (TVs, musical instruments, games, music etc).... And the physical media (mostly mainstream but also some non mainstream stuff, anime stuff etc) section is quite large and it's always busy and always has regular sales. Having said all that though...
Things are changing. I used to browse JB regularly after work and now I never go in even though I still buy. I do it all online now. Mostly boutiques direct these days but I still get mainstream stuff from JB when the sales are on. I think mainstream stuff in mainstream stores may shrink.... But the niche market will just be mostly online and will be a case of Back to the Future to the Laserdisc era where it's just the hardcore film nerds/collectors like most of us here who will want to spend the cash to buy these more expensive but high quality physical media products.
But I am curious about the status of the actual manufacturing capabilities out there.... A vid on that maybe one day ? 😁
I think Arrow does a great job splitting the difference when they make the first edition limited with enhanced packaging/booklets/posters, but they always pull through with a standard edition that keeps the actual disc intact.
I absolutely love you’re shelves in the background where did you get them? I need some of those & very awesome video man
He made them himself. He has a video uploaded where he even shows how to do it.
Sure did! Here's a link to our instructional video about how to make them DIRT CHEAP! ruclips.net/video/2k7Tt8zJBkc/видео.html
They are a fantastic design. I built an entire wall of them for my man-cave. They store tremendous amounts with no issue. One suggestion: pre-drill your screw hole to avoid any wood splits. They are GREAT shelves!
@@CerealAtMidnight thank you so much brother! Keep up the awesome videos you do & stay safe 🤘🏽!
Very good conversation about a very interesting subject.
Fantastic video, Heath. Difficult conversations to have for sure. It makes me sad to see the physical media market shrinking. Just the other day I saw my local Best Buy had removed a couple of aisles from their movie section. I have almost no reason to go there anymore. But it's the reality of the market. Things change. But I'll keep collecting and supporting physical media for as long as possible. Streaming just doesn't cut it.
I miss 2012 resident evíl DVD it was a limited edition it was hd DVD I saw it but didn't pick up in Target I went back 2 days later it was gone at all Targets I should've pick it up it had all the special features
Am I alone in preferring DVD? I mainly collect cult horror. I know there's a picture difference with blu ray, but it's just not enough for me to spend $30+. Hell, I still like VHS. I just don't care about having a perfect picture.
Let's be honest, there is a lot of stuff out on BR that gains little from the format. Many B cult horror classics just offer bad or mediocre in HiDef for a high end price. While I love the horror film THE CHANGELING with George C. Scott, it is senseless to lay out 20plus dollars for a BR when there is little to be gained visually by the format and while the more than serviceable DVD is easy to find for less than $5. There is a certain pretentious status in owning mediocrity at Criterion prices.
Seriously, have you see the prices for Abbott and Costello in BR?! I was buying my more than serviceable DVD collections for $5 a pop. Is someone really going to try and convince me the BRs offer these "visually profound works of cinematic art" to justify the BR price point? Besides, who in heaven's name was itching for a HiDef releses of Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy? Some of the demand these distributors appeal to is pretty contrived. William Castle would be envious.
Don't get me wrong, I like me some mediocrity but there are some Roger Corman films which offer little in HiDef to justify luxury pricing. As a matter of fact, the visual shortcomings of certain older films are amplified by the BR format. Film creators knew how to exploit the lack of resolution to their advantage years ago. This is why I wasn't eager to load up on the Vincent Price BR collection. My Vinny BRs didn't look significantly better than my DVDs and the same goes for the Christopher Lee Dracula films. When you can get four decent looking and satisfying transfers on one DVD for less than $10, what sense does it make to spend $80plus just for a little better resolution, vivid velvet and velour and some filler?
The Ghibli steelbooks really proved to me how common sense plays a very little role in consumer spending and film collecting. Just throw a disc in a metal box and slap a picture of the character on the front and *presto* you can now sell the film for 25%-100% more than the regular release---- which has significantly better cover art.
Again, there is a certain amount of status pretentiousness involved here hidden in the guise of "personal preference".
Because we all know the cinematography of Chopping Mall is significantly more enhanced on BR compared to it's DVD counterpart and is worth the extra $10-15 difference. Because, if you haven't seen B shlock in 1080p, you are missing out. But at least you can brag you have it on "Bluray".
To whom?!!
Yeah, whatever. lol!
Love the video!!
It certainly works for Nintendo sadly. Announcing a cut off date for Mario 3D All-Stars of Mar. 31st. Even the digital version is going away. I picked up the Abbott and Costello 80th anniversary Universal Collection on Blu-Ray. It's surprisingly still available on their site. It was $170 and is currently marked down to $100. The Shout Factory Pink Panther collection on Blu-Ray which does include Return of the Pink Panther unlike the DVD set, is out of print. I also have the Indiana Jones complete collection on Blu-Ray and now they announced a 4k collection which I may end up getting...
Great conversation Heath , I would of loved to hear his opinion on stinky tuna.
I definitely don't support Stinky Tuna. It's basically black market goods pulled from streaming sources that don't support the copyright holders or filmmakers with a single dime. We can get upset at studios for their decisions not to release certain movies to disc, but by buying counterfeit or black market goods ("buying" is the key word...I have a different opinion about "sharing"), I feel like we're punishing the people who made the movies and/or shows in the first place. It most definitely has a destructive effect on the home media industry at large, and the avatar on their site of the cat with both middle fingers raised tells us all we need to know about how they feel about supporting the industry. Spending money on Stinky Tuna only supports Stinky Tuna. I will never cover them in a video because I don't even want anyone to know they exist. It's amazing they haven't been hit with a huge lawsuit already, but that day is coming.
@@CerealAtMidnight that amazes me as well why does nobody find out what you’re doing 🤷🏻♂️
Their site is down right now, marked as "under construction" or something, so maybe it's already happening. It's not like Napster back in the day, or even The Pirate Bay, where it was basically peer to peer file sharing. With Stinky Tuna, you're literally paying someone else to steal something for you, and they're doing it in front of everyone like they're a legit business. I wouldn't want to be those guys! Repercussions are coming, certainly.
Stinky tuna should be thrown out immediately. I mean, it's so cheap to begin with. Just open a new can. 😸
Great topic Heath. Mr. Bookwalter is a class act a joy to buy from as well.
Hey Kyle, so good to hear from you! Hearing multiple reports of people who have very nice things to say about J.R. Bookwalter, which is great! Stay safe, brother.
Another great video on an important topic. Thanks Heath!
I don't jump on limited editions because the companies usually release the same titles again without a book or whatever. Companies pay the price if they are gone forever. I won't buy Imprint because of that. I'm also not interested in most of their stock. The only titles in the latest batch that interested me were "The Bad News Bears" and "Black Sunday" and The Bad News Bears is coming out from Paramount. In the first batch I was dying to get "When Worlds Collide". It sold out but I was able to get it from Vudu so I'm happy.
Idea for Shout Factory and "limited" runs. After first run set up a pre-order for second run. The credit card gets a hold but isn't charged like Amazon does for pre-orders and once they get enough orders, do the second run.
This idea is simple...but awesome! I think all niche physical media should adopt this principle (where MOD does not already apply). I think it'd serve consumers without generating surplus waste to the environment, or risk for the vendor. It would also impair scalpers because it would seem to provide an assurance to the consumer that if they don't mind waiting, and believe it likely that other folks might think along the same lines, then they can have the product in the future. While there might be some uncertainty about when the physical item would be in your possession, the price would be agreed and so one might be less susceptible to FOMO.
In my own experience, I've paid a premium to pick up items that I'd missed on release, not because I think I need to get the item right away, but because I have a high level of certainty that I want the item, it's currently available at a certain price, and I'm afraid that in the future I'll still want it, but have to pay a higher price and/or find the item to be increasingly scarce. What you suggest is a neat solution to this problem because I'd rather spend my time watching films, or browsing for new ones to purchase, than to be trying to figure out if I really want x badly enough to pay triple its initial retail price.
Yea, i even am selective on what i get if not care for the certain extra i can skip any and get stuff loaded with stuff to enjoy and learn from any. sometimes even i have got movies with extra and overwhelmed on how much the give u for decent price. as he was saying he try give alot bells and whistles as for extra on the limited copies to make it worth getting at time. but then scalpers get news and try score all copies to charge way too much cause they spend so much to get all and try make it back cause of greed any.
Great interview!!!
For a release of 1000, buying 2 copies is ridiculous, should be limited to one per customer.
I enjoyed this, i remember Arrow having a small window with Waterworld and after a few months Universal released it on 4K, i think 88 Films have the right idea by selling there limited editions with slipcovers and if there is a demand then they re-realise it without the slip, they have just done this with Street Fighter.
As someone also in the industry and also a HUGE film collector, I create my own personal shitstorm of paranoia for collecting certain titles and editions as I know how the distribution industry continues to alter it's operations. It's a tricky speculative balance of what you want and what you may want in the future after it's past the window of availability.
Love it!
My issue isn't with releasing limited runs of movies. I'd rather have the opportunity to buy it than not. My problem is the quality of the movie itself, especially 4ks. This goes for the major studios as well. Far too many mediocre 4k discs. Wish studios, big or small would concentrate more on the movie and less with packaging
No where eagles dare 4k.
From what I've seen boutique labels are doing a better job of 4K for lesser known titles than a lot of big studios are doing for newer releases! It's crazy. The boutique labels at least care about the art of cinema and the collector. The large studios are just evil corporate soulless money hungry overlords. That's not to say there aren't good 4k new releases (like Tenant)...or even boutique stuff on occasion from the big corporates (like the Columbia Classics 4k set). But you know.... I'm talking in general....
As far as MOD discs, I'm thinking there is a lot of misinformation out there. I don't even know all there is to know about the quality? I'd love a video talking about the differences between Burned in demand, and pressed discs. I'm leery not because of the content, I know it's good quality on the disc, audio and HD presentation is as good as the elements allow. What I don't know, and what scares most collectors away from MOD discs, is we don't know the shelf life on them. We buy for our collection to hopefully last for decades, and I don't feel there is a lot of info out there on the reliability of MOD a decade from now. Will they be trash? Or will they last as long as a pressed disc? It's something I'm curious on, and I'm sure others are as well. Just a thought, great video. 👍
Physical Media is going Niche. That means Limited Release and cost will go up w scarcity. Hopefully they will give us some extras with the Physical Blu Ray or the CD. In Japan they collect CDs like we collect Vinyl.
Great video as usual
I hate you can't find copies of a lot of movies anymore, 1981 Scarecrows.
It’s sad more people don’t buy physical disc so companies have to limit their product because they need to reach a profit to be able to continue this work. 88 films for example press several thousand discs but only the first 3,000 copies have their slip covers.
FOMO is always getting ripped off as a consumer but is a goldmine to a scalper
I'm not sure I'd go with the argument of companies only releasing a numbered limited edition because they don't want to be stuck with unsold copies. If you believe your market is as small as 1500-2000, why as a company would you invest time and money into a 1500 unit run? Surely by doing research and going onto social media, companies would be able to see that more often than not they will always sell out of a 1500-3000 run. So why not make it more?. As a UK based physical media fan it amazes me how many American companies don't factor in the European fan base. With the increase in region free players the demand for US region locked discs are on the increase outside of the US.
To sum up I'd argue that there isnt any reason to produce a run as low as 1000-1500 other than to create a panic within the community. If you struggle to sell a run of 3000 units then you haven't done your research and have released the wrong product.
In talking about U.S. markets not considering European and U.S. sales, I wonder if that's because so many U.S. distributors are only licensed to sell those movies in North America, which means that any foreign sales would theoretically be off the table for them. A unit sold is a unit sold, but I wonder if they can predict or count on those sales since many distributors can't plan for that directly, thanks to regional licenses. A lot of movies from companies like Code Red, Scorpion Releasing, even Vinegar Syndrome seem to eventually get foreign market releases from 88 Films, 101 Films, Shameless Video, and so on. It does go both ways, too, though, such as with the recent Second Sight release of Dawn of the Dead on a super-duper 4K edition that sold out almost immediately and had to go back to print.
Years ago I helped (in a small way) a filmmaker get his film a US DVD release. He worked out a US licensing deal but when the product came out sellers were marketing the film worldwide. It killed a deal he was working on for German sales. After working so long on a film he had hard feelings for he was livid by what he saw as further theft of his film. So yeh, territory rights are a big thing.
I regret not buying Scream factory's Slumber Party Massacre 2/3 bluray. Its like $200.00 on ebay now.
Johnny Mnemonic !!!
Code Red,Scorpion Releasing,and Dark Force Entertainment specialize in this Limited Edition stuff,for they(along with Scream Factory,Blue Underground,and other companies) charge way too much money for any fan to afford to buy those extremely rare film titles that they're releasing.
Can someone explain mod vs. Pressed? As I undestand it, mod discs are burned? How can you tell?
Yes, MOD discs are burned and will not be silver on the playing side, they'll be blue or purple or green, depending on the format. Pressed discs are replicated in a factory and have a glass coat/layer that adds some protection to that surface.
Fear based selling tactics are an old strategy. Scalpers used to be a small problem, but now they are literally bringing consumer markets worth billions of dollars to their knees.
Imo this should be illegal, when I work on Wall Street any of my colleagues using tools not available to the General public to corner a commodities market would be considered guilty of committing insider trading. But scalpers are doing exactly that, they're using tools"BOTS" not available to the General public to gain an unfair advantage and completely corner commodities markets sometimes worth tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.
It's up to manufacturers and retailers to design tools to stop such activity.
Thanks for the video even if I went off on a little bit of a tangent there.
Can't stand the scalpers,i don't mind the peeps adding an extra 10 or even 20 bucks its the ones that triple and qaudruple the price that bother me. The funny thing is a lot of these titles that are oop and being scalped can often be found in much nicer editions in mediabook form for cheaper prices. Like shouts Deathstalker set, sells for as much as 90. I got the mediabooks for 25 each,same with Troll 1 and 2, Terror Within 1 and 2, Howling 2 and bunch others. Pretty much everything shout releases that is limited and or oop, will get a mediabook or region b release. And imo these are always done much better anyways far as packaging, extras and technical aspects go.
I still buy sealed laserdiscs, vhs & dvds.
So many films are changed so drastically on blu-ray and 4K so going back to those older formats is literally the only way to have them as they were original shown or intended.
Just look at the new Indiana Jones 4K that is edited with everything new and none of those practical effects are kept in tack or the audio that made the films so impactful.
Changed just for the sake of being “modern” like that is worthwhile effort. Such a shame these films are forever ruined
What changes to Indiana Jones are you referencing? Those movies don't even come out on 4K until the summer, and I haven't heard of any alterations.
Not sure what I will do when it goes to disc on demand, doubt very much I will be buying those. My wife won't let me pirate anything as she worries about the coppers and digital doesn't feel like I own anything. Probably keep collecting older movies and rent digital copies.
May I ask what it is about disc on demand that you dislike so much that you would rather not own the movie?
@@CerealAtMidnight I hate burnt discs, seen to many fail. There is also a lot less protection on them so a lot more susceptible to scraps and environmental issues etc I've worked in IT for over 30 years, trust me burnt discs are horrible. I have actually seen someone get fired for backing up to one of these discs and it failing, caused a lot of problems for the company with the tax man. Thank the gods I wasn't their IT person
@@CerealAtMidnight I also know a lot of people who used to burn their own CDs and saw over the years a lot of disc rot. These discs wouldn't have been stored properly but it's enough to put you off paying full price for a sub standard product.
@@CerealAtMidnight BTW your mill creek videos have resulted in my spending a fortune to get some of these box sets sent from the US lol. I'm especially enjoying the 50 movie collection dark crimes and am loving the 200 movie drive in collection (I got this shipped for £49, an amazing price). Sooo many bad movies that I love on this box set (dark crimes has amazing movies such as the original DOA). Just watched Scoripian, it has every 80s cop cliche in it. Was so good. They even worked in the "you have 48 hours" line. Thanks for turning me on to these, really enjoying them
J.R doesn't seem to have the same disdain for collector's as some people do. Individual s who need to get every release or must snag that low budget horror movie or a direct to video title now getting a blu ray release are collectors. Even if they claim to be a cinephile only . I think it's acceptable to be both .
Bookwalter's aging into a proper snack, huh?
I wish I didn't love this topic. It's very sad.
I don't like the idea of MOD: the burnt disc. If it isn't pressed, I won't get it. It's fear of disc rot, really.
To add to this annoyance, sometimes that “limited edition” that you fear may sell out in a week is still on shelves three years later. So you spend your money on that title day one, but loose out on the title that actually does sell out fast because you can’t afford both at the same time. Annoying.
I hate scream/shout factory.
Shout are the worst and laziest label. They will use the worst scans for films, give us dts audio but then slap it all together with the worst compression and disc authoring from any company that calls themselves boutique.
I will never buy a shout factory release unless they are the literal only one because of the quality of their products and consumer care. I will wait gladly for any other company to release it because shout isn’t worth investing in.
They just have shown they don’t care and I will not support them as much as I can!!!