How fucking silly. I don't understand the VHS comparison either, as the next disc-based format will still feature DVD backwards compatibility.

Sorry, must be getting my obnoxious posters mixed up.

What is even worse to me, is that I've seen a few people comment online that they sold off their entire collection of Criterion dvds for cheap on Ebay with the intents of purchasing the collection on Blu. There was an individual who did this on the .com forums and I asked why he did that if he loved these movies so much and got the tired old spiel about how great Blu Ray is and how the SD's are irrelevant now. I just don't understand the logic.

If you're referring to me as one of the hostile ones, well, what did you expect from Hitler?

Why exactly did he think the entire collection (including titles Criterion no longer has the right to ) would be issued again on BD? Because he wanted them?

Then there was the guy over on the Blu-ray.com forum who had bought all of Criterion's BDs and was posting to ask the assembled minions if they though he would like the films.

Some boys just can't get over their shiny toys.

haha, no, wasn't referring to you.

So you're the guy Glenn Beck keeps talking about?

I am sick of people denying the DVD Holocaust. Blu-Ray is here, it's great, and it is the future. Adapt.

The future is video on demand which is why every company is pushing the format hard. Depending on the article you read, VOD sales were $2 billion last year, almost double the sales of blu software. That probably scares me more, as I like having the actual product sitting on my shelf versus as a file on a hard drive. VOD doesn't get debated much on the forums as I'm sure most people have their reservations about the technology but it's the definitely the juggernaut looming in the background. The other major issue that's not discussed as much as it should be is that people just aren't buying movies anymore. The total dollar amounts generated by the home video market has been seeing double digit declines for almost a half decade now regardless of the format. (classic and foreign language films being hit particularly hard)

Personally, I've been buying the Criterion blus when they are available but buying a DVD of Z or Golden Age of Television, Everlasting Moments, etc. is fine. I understand that there are market considerations that prevent those from happening for different reasons. Nothing to make a stink over, IMO.

EDIT: Just to add something that's actually on topic. The MGM dvd of Coffee and Cigarettes is also out of print. Since Jim has been transitioning his library over to Criterion, I wouldn't be surprised if Coffee and Cigarettes wasn't in que.

You're now all expected to purchase the Everlasting Moments Blu that was just posted on the site.

With Close-Up (and The Traveler) bumped to Blu, I think it's safe to say that 2010 is Criterion's most impressive year ever.

Wouldn't be more accurate to say the best half-year ever? We're only through June. A number of good teams have faded in the second half.

See: last year, actually.

For me however, this is Criterion's best year in some time.

This is far from Criterion's most anything

Amen to Domino.

I will, too, and probably also Close-Up , unless I simply hate it when I see the new Janus print, which I'll see when it plays here in Chicago (it's playing in Chicago at some point, right?).

I'll also take credit for the addition, since it was obviously my "gullible consumer" post that made the difference. Clearly it was the threat of being associated with Toyota that broke them.

I'm sure if we start complaining from now until tomorrow we can get Night train to Munich on blu making it Criterion's first official month where all their releases are both SD and BD. Start now people!

Last month already did that, there was actually more Blu releases than SD, not that it ultimately matters.

This is tremendous news! EM is visually ravishing, and CU is simply one of the greatest and most enthralling films to come out of Iran in the past couple of decades or so (which is saying a great deal!) HD is a fitting way to see these gems at home.

So what's the first Eclipse set that will get a Blu-ray treatment? Discuss.

None. They didn't even get the Criterion treatment.

Blu-ray.com is reporting that Image just picked up the Handmade Films library. Could this put How to Get Ahead in Advertising back in print?

Good show. EM and Close-up are available on both formats. The consumer gets to pick and everyone is happy

Now if we could just get them to release The Fugitive Kind on blu-ray...

Seems highly likely to me. Should also give Criterion the opportunity to remaster the in print titles originating from Handmade, as they are all subpar.