Lost Season 1 hitting Blu-ray next summer?
By Richard Lawler 
posted October 24th 2006 12:39PM
posted October 24th 2006 12:39PM
Lost fansite The Tail Section is reporting that sources from ABCs marketing department have indicated Disney's home video arm, Buena Vista is close to announcing a series of HDTV shows coming to Blu-ray boxed sets next year. ABC's Lost would be the flagship of the lineup and include many extras not available on the already successful DVD release. Unfortunately, if you thought the $79 Smallville Season 5 boxed set was high priced you may want to sit down as the rumor pegs a single season of Lost at $200. Future plans would include releasing shows in in two-episode discs, for $20 each. Lost is still a wildly popular series, but $200 per season is just a bit much, no matter what the extras...but you do want to be able to catch every single detail right?
I agree, $200 is a stretch but than again, we were already aware of the premium blu-ray was gonna come with so it's no surprise to me. I'd probably pay as much as $100 for a season of a show in high definition... and that's if i really liked it.
GREAT! I'm going to buy the BR drive especially for this!!
I love Lost, and watching them in Blu-ray would make them worth watching again, but 200 dollars? Come on! I would not pay that much.
This is absurd. How can they forget that they're competing against 480p DVDs? High-def is hardly the only game in town. They're gonna convince people to become new customers, buy new hardware and software of TV shows and movies they may already own and have seen, by charging 4 times the price? If the rumor is true, this is more than a "possible stumbling block." This is dumb dumb dumb, and I don't enjoy saying so. This makes no business sense to me.
Another good idea would be uncompressed 480p widescreen versions of LOST on blu-ray, maybe the whole season would fit on one 50GB disc.
For me, it's HD or nothing, but I think the $79.99 price point Warner is asking is far more realistic. Even $99.99 would be okay. Because discount retailers like Best Buy and Amazon will always knock about $20-30 off the sets anyway.
I don't mind paying $60-70 for a high def season. But I haven't paid over $100 since the first X-Files DVD sets, and I learned my lesson after the lower price points hit.
I just can't justify $200 to watch the first season of Lost again. I know it uses fancy Blu-ray discs, but why the huge price hike? New BR movies are like $35 tops, compared to DVD new releases which are $20 normally. That means BR movies should be at most 1.75 times more expensive to make than DVDs. If Lost season one's MSRP was $49.99 when it came out, the BR season shouldn't be more than $90.
It's not like they had any work to do. The show aired in HD originally, they just dumped the HD masters into a video converter to change it to VC-1 or whatever, and had the discs pressed.
Thumbs down.
Yeah!
sweet, $200 per season. This had to be a Sony idea! Jesus man, i'm a huge LOST fan, but this is retarded, as is the $20 2-episode disc idea. The funny thing is that despite the fact that the production of the show itself has already been paid for and despite the fact that $50 per season is MORE than enough to cover the costs of making the sets, along with a healthy profit, there are people who think $200 is fair. It's a shame that technology has offset survival of the fittest.
$100 fine ...$200 you're off your rocker.
One word. USENET. When HD fanboys PVR and post Transport Streamed recordings of these shows like Lost in 720p, they are there for the taking. Besides, if anybody with a PVR can record these shows in high def, why would anyone ever pay that much for TV?