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Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gift Se
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By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 23, 2013, 9:02 am
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Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gift
Set (Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack)
HTML http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_170630_30009510_pe_button/?ASIN=B00CTT9646
I've never seen or heard of Amazon taking orders this fast for a
movie that JUST came out. I guess they are trying to strike
while the iron is hot and grab those potential sales as soon as
customers walk out of the theater. It's actually a smart
business model and something I would have done years ago with
the format. It has just always been a question about the company
actually having a product they intended to sell at a later date
that would make this work.
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Re: Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gif
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By: Mac Date: May 23, 2013, 10:08 am
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We might be seeing the dawn of new business plan. This could be
brilliant. As you suggested, the folks just finished watching
this and slobbering to have this, anything, related to movie
will be just fine.
White I find personally funny, way back in 1978, when I was
finishing up my 2 year graphic’s program, one of my fellow
students decided to include in his business portfolio, an
illustrated phaser from Star Trek. He was our local nerd. I
believe he got an OK grade for doing good ink work, but he got
slammed for including something in portfolio that, at the time,
was not well suited for finding a job.
Looks like today, that thinking would be completely 180.
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Re: Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gif
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By: Neumatic Date: August 30, 2013, 8:56 pm
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Holy cow, I can't believe how Paramount f'ed up the Blu-ray
release of the movie: you get different special features
depending on where you buy the movie
HTML http://trekmovie.com/2013/08/28/into-darkness-blu-ray-where-are-all-the-bonus-features/.<br
/> it's not little things, it's the content cut into thirds, you
don't have the option of getting all of them. It's a total slap
in the face to Trek fans. Give it a week, I guarantee you there
will be a torrent with ALL the special features from all the
releases collated, and the people who care about that will
download it rather than buy an inferior version (especially at
40 bucks a pop).
Now, I have nothing against exclusive content, but that should
be more optional extras, little figures and different boxes, the
stuff ON the disc should be the the same. MAYBE with slight
differences, I was thinking the skin of the menus might be
different based on the exclusive boxes, but you don't screw
people with the actual content that they're paying for.
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Re: Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gif
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By: Mac Date: August 31, 2013, 8:42 am
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Sales are slacking (physical copies). Maybe they trying
desperate measures to see what works?
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Re: Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gif
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By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 31, 2013, 8:47 am
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Splitting up content is not going to make people buy more.
But adding parts of Summer Glau's home phone number into
multiple copies definitely will. Yes, buy all 3 different copies
to collect her entire phone number, and then call her and ask
for your grand prize......an all expense paid 2 week cruise with
her to your destination of choice. Sh*t, I'd buy every damn copy
for THAT!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
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Re: Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gif
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By: Neumatic Date: August 31, 2013, 2:02 pm
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Wow, I haven't thought of Summer Glau in a while. I feel like I
would make a character of her but I don't know which yet (though
looking at her, I can kinda see Olivia Wilde's little sister).
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Re: Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gif
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By: Mac Date: September 2, 2013, 6:49 am
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[glow=red,2,300]The real problem with Star Trek Into Darkness ‘s
bungled Blu-ray release
[/glow]
If you’re not a hardcore DVD/Blu-ray enthusiast, you may not be
aware of an interesting kerfuffle that’s just arisen. But while
it might only seem to affect your more devoted variety of Star
Trek fans on the surface, it serves as a case study of what’s
going wrong with the physical media world at this moment.
This summer, the Paramount film Star Trek Into Darkness managed
an impressive thing for a major blockbuster released in 2013 —
not only was it critically popular for the most part, but it
actually managed to make some money at the box office, as well.
But the site Trekcore.com last week ran an extraordinarily
thorough review of the upcoming Blu-ray release of Star Trek
Into Darkness — one that rated the Blu-ray transfer quality at
five stars, but the special features at 0.5 stars.
Why such a dramatic difference in the ratings? Because, as
Trekcore lays out:
There’s no denying that the high definition presentation of this
film looks absolutely beautiful — but this is the most
confusing, exploitative release ever to bear the Star Trek name.
The primary issue is that of “retailer exclusives” — different
versions of the film being packaged with different sets of
special features, depending on where you buy the film once it’s
available September 10th on Blu-ray.
This means getting an entirely different set of
behind-the-scenes featurettes if you buy the film from Target
versus Best Buy, and that’s only within the United States —
other international releases feature additional features and
visual options (including a German edition which may include
IMAX-formatted footage).
Plus, the only way to acquire any version of the film that
includes an audio commentary is to either buy the film on iTunes
or use the accompanying digital download code on the Apple
service.
That gets you access to the “visual commentary track” — which is
not tied to the original download, but is instead a five GB
download of the film described by TrekCore as follows:
And while director J.J. Abrams and cast members have mentioned
the existence of at least two deleted scenes, the only sign
TrekCore could find of those scenes being available on Blu-ray
was an upcoming Australian release — a release that may also be
tied to another retailer exclusive in that country.
One of those two known deleted scenes, just for the record, is a
shower scene featuring fangirl icon/breakout star Benedict
Cumberbatch, which Abrams teased earlier this year on Conan.
That seems like something that would sell a few box sets.
Amazon rankings, at time of writing, did have pre-orders for
Into Darkness at #17 in the Movies & TV category, and the film
is also at #4 on the iTunes best-sellers chart. But according to
TorrentFreak, a torrent of Into Darkness is already the
second-most downloaded movie of last week.
Special features don’t seem to have popped up on BitTorrent yet,
but that’s not hard to imagine changing in the next few weeks.
Because that’s going to be the only real way to get a complete
set — Paramount has no track record for creating “complete”
editions of its past Blu-ray releases.
So what does this ultimately mean for the film’s release? It’s
not necessarily something the casual viewer will notice — the
casual viewer will probably be content with the iTunes edition,
or waiting for it to be available on VOD or other streaming
options.
But that’s because the casual viewer probably isn’t interested
in spending $102.98 without shipping costs (according to math
done by a TrekCore commenter) to get the majority of the special
features.
And that’s undoubtedly math that Paramount is counting on — has,
in fact, counted on in the past.
But trying to keep an entire industry alive on the backs of
devoted fans craving limited edition features isn’t the most
solid business model. It’s a solution that speaks of short-term
thinking, at a time when the rise of HD-quality video coincides
with ever-shrinking data caps.
The physical media world has enough problems — why alienate the
consumers who are still shelling out cash?
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Re: Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gif
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By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 2, 2013, 8:29 am
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Paramount is going to have to do an about face and give fans the
all-in-one DVD that has EVERYTHING. This is shameful that they
would exploit fans of their hard earn money and they will do so
much damage to their own brand name that you could have a very
long and sustained boycott. Somewhere right now, a bunch of
Paramount suits are sweating the negative reaction and looking
to see what they can do to stem the tides. My solution would be
to pull this ASAP and delay the release until they can produce
the all-in-one DVD. Won't happen. The other solution and more
likely one would be that anyone that buys this f*cked up version
gets dibs on the all-in-one DVD for free. I'm sure the physical
disc/case will have some sort of "coupon" or proof of purchase
that they can send in to claim their new Blu-ray. Paramount
better do something like this because I have already started my
boycott. I would urge EVERYONE to cancel their pre-orders from
whatever store they bought it from. What sucks is that a lot of
people don't even know about this and may never know about it
unless they are are DVD enthusiast and are members of online
forums to get this much-needed information.
And don't even get me started on this iTunes-only Commentary
track bullsh*t. What about the people that don't have internet
access? So Paramount is going to punish those fans by excluding
content all together? Man I want to punch a Suit right now.
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Re: Star Trek Into Darkness Starfleet Phaser Limited Edition Gif
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By: Neumatic Date: September 2, 2013, 2:34 pm
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I doubt that they're sweating sh*t. Also, I believe that a lot
of this is Bad Robot's idea as well, which is another real slap
in the face to fans (one of many from them, fans will no doubt
tell you). It's so shockingly anti-consumer that the ENTIRE
Into Darkness experience seems like it was deliberately designed
to p*ss fans off, like they gave Abrams sh*t for the first movie
and all of this is his revenge, from the postponement to the
weak characters to the shoehorning in of a villain for NO
REASON...
Meanwhile, I dug up my copy of Clerks on Blu-Ray and I'm
honestly astounded at how much is on there, whole different
versions of the movie, several commentaries, deleted scenes,
documentaries, trailers, commercials, the whole nine yards and
that's a standard. Heck, those are the blu-rays that I have the
most confidence in buying because I know Smith appreciates his
audience.
Now, I was thinking about the idea of retailer exclusives, and
here's how I would have done it for Into Darkness: Depending on
which store you go to, there's a different case: Enterprise,
Vengeance, or Klingon. And the menus on the blu-ray look like
the computer controls from the various ships. They ALL have the
same special features, BUT because the menus are different
there's maybe one or two unmarked easter eggs that are
different. The main ones being a little one-minute video (so
they can be shared on Youtube when found) shot on set, the
Enterprise one has a little video of Kirk and Spock talking to
the home viewer (almost like the videos in front of an amusement
park ride), the Vengeance one has Cumberbatch warning the home
viewer, and the Klingon one has Uhura in the Mudd ship cockpit
telling us to "hang on!" Little exclusives like THAT I would be
okay with. Exclusives are meant to allow the fans to pick a
design and motif they like, to express their fandom in a way,
not to force them to choose sh*t.
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