Music and home movies are always released on Tuesdays. I believe that books are too. Video games are obviously a different story. I would believe that it would be much easier for the consumer/sellers if games had a standardized dated. Which leads to the question: Does the game industry benefit for non-standardized release dates?
i dont think most people care about release dates. only people who write on video game message boards do. good god this is dumb.
Cause you are better than people who post on video game message boards?
what an intelligent comment. just because your thread is dumb does not mean my point is any less valid. c'mon. just soak it in. you'll understand.
most people i know and from working 6 years in the game selling industry i KNOW that most people could give a rats ass about getting a game on "day one" let alone on a set date, unless its a high calibur game. otherwise they dont care.
It is a perfectly valid question (even if the audience who is affected by the unstable street dates is small); I do not see where posting that this is dumb adds anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne
Personally, I would just attribute the inconsistent release dates to the video game industry being ass-backwards compared to the video and music industry. I really can not fathom what is gained from this -- all it really does is piss the hardcore off initially. In the long run, it probably does not matter at all....
-Dippy
01. Dont listen to Dragonmaster Dyne. Hes being an idiot.
02. Plenty of people care about the game's actual date. Stores take pre-orders so they can move them to customers on these dates. Big-name games like Madden especially. Hell, I was working on the days before Street Racing Syndicate came out, plenty of people calling and asking, and on the day it was supposed to come in, lots of people came in and expressed dissapointment.
03. Companies need to get their act in gear and make sure games are sitting on the shelf on Tuesday. This inconsistency hurts them, hurts the retailers, and makes them all look like amateurs. Not good when youre talking about an eight billion dollar industry.
makes no difference to me whether a game comes out on a Tuesday or any other day..
but on the other hand, if I have to wait nearly a week for a game that would normally come out on a Wednesday to be released the following tuesday.....well.. that might get on my nerves a bit.
if you ask me, its centralized companies in the movie and music industry that set release dates the same to others. Why? They wont sell every single one of the albums they release that day, but it gives them a nice even spread of album sales on the first day to make as much money as possible to get the most reorders as soon as possible.
The industry needs solid release dates. There's nothing more irritating than the whole "shipping date" bullshit. Give me an exact day of release. Going to the store to get a game that's supposedly released to have the employee say "It might come today or tomorrow or the day after" is very annoying as a customer. I'm sure it's annoying for the dude behind the counter too.
oh wow, lets all call dyne dumb. i think what we need first is an educated point of sale instead of all this "we'll sell the game early and break street dates" bullshit. theres gotta be consistency on both ends.
Media Play around here gets their game shipments for Wednesday releases... so if a game is released on a Thursday, it won't be there and on the shelves until the next Wednesday. That's how much they think people don't care.
Didn't all new games used to come out on Tuesday?
I seem to remember that was the case, and now it seems the fuckers come out whenever they please. It's espically annoying if you want to get two new games on the same week, and one is tuesday and the other is thursday, espically if the store is quite a drive away.
I almost went to get Gungrave OD tommorrow, but it dosen't even ship until tommorrow, which is some weird bullshit.
Also, all the stores need to release things on the same god damn day. EB and Gamestop get things on Tuesday, Best Buy and Circuit City a few days after that, Wal-Mart a week later. You don't see this kind of inconsistency with dvd's.
Very true. Personally, I hate going to EB or GS and finding out that it isn't in due to the day being the "ship date." It wasn't all that long ago that stuff WAS on the shelves on that date, now it's just become an excuse for sloppiness, seemingly. It's annoying to me, as a consumer, as I can only get out to a store so many times in a week.
i agree, games need to get in gear with the rest of media - Tuesdays please. Its not too much to ask for a standardized street date.
Especially if more people keep it:
And Dyne we're calling you dumb because; that's exactly what your post was. It's best if you let this die.
the whole "shipping date" thing has reallyl annoyed me too. The guy gave me this whole speech about how he hates how everyone comes in on a particular day when it's the shipping day, so it won't be in. But I replied back, "well, then how come when I used to come in on these so called 'shipping days' I got the game?" I've used the same list I always have (GameFAQs.com), so why would that change. Oh well. Luckily I rarely buy games right away. It's only for $20 games that I get them day one.
Definitely. I unknowingly walked into GameStop on Madden's release date, and it was huge. Tons of people there waiting for the shipment. So much for people not caring.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Anyway, the ship date stuff is definitely a pain in the ass, and standardizing it is a must. It's frustrating to everyone involved, and if movies and music have done it, video games need to follow. Whether or not "the majority of people" care is unimportant, the practices they have now are somewhat deceptive and yeah, like diffx said, unprofessional.
Speaking of pains in the ass, GGX2#R is supposed to finally be at GameStop tomorrow. It had better fucking be there.
I realize that maybe two people, total, read the lists I post weekly (you know, that front page thing you ignore to come straight to the forums) but one of the things I made a point of doing was adding a day to the "shipping date" so that it's actually accurate for when the game can be bought. Who cares when the game ships, what good does it sitting on a truck do anyone? As a consumer, hell, as someone working game retail, all I care about in terms of dates is the one on which is shows up.
Having said that, I don't like one day a week for everything. Nobody has to go to the mall 3-4 times a week to buy every game they "need", just head out on Thursday or something and get it all in a go.
I also don't think slaving all the game companies together into one release setup is a good idea either. Why is it at Gamestop/EB before Best Buy/Walmart? Because GS/EB pay extra shipping to get it there. BB/Walmart could do the exact same thing if they wanted but they don't. Idiot regulations tying all retailers together so brain-dead customers don't get "confused" won't help anyone. I think it's a bad idea for the video industry and I'm glad the gaming industry doesn't do it.
What? Why? Why would we want the gaming industry to be like them, anyway?Quote:
if movies and music have done it, video games need to follow
James
Because the gaming industry should be professional, and large entertainment industries in this country all have a set day in which all their products come out. The music industry has Tuesday, and the movie industry has Tuesday and Friday.Quote:
Why would we want the gaming industry to be like them, anyway?
The mess the gaming industry has now, where games ship on a Tuesday, sometimes come in at night in some places if the manager is willing to pick them up but more often comes in on Wednesday, maybe, is a disaster and just amateurish garbage. Id expect this sort of shit from the model train industry or something but not an 8 billion dollar industry with double-digit growth rates.
It doesnt have to be Tuesday. But it needs to be a certain, set date that people can count on.
I can't even explain to people that never did it how hard it is to try and explain to a customer why the game isn't there the day it was supposed to be. They don't like to listen, and it just makes the store and it's employees look like they have no idea how to run a buisness.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
I think it would help if companies just put out the street date, instead of the fucking ship date.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
On dvd's and music, they put the street date, there's none of this shipping date garbage.
Could you imagine if the movie industry acted like the game industry? You go to a movie theater on Friday night.
You: Yea, Id like to get a ticket for GutFucker 3.
Cashier: Sorry, today was the ship date. We'll have it up and running tomorrow. But give us a call beforehand just to make sure.
You: Hmm... okay. What about Blue Rhapsody? Can I get a ticket for that?
Cashier: Well... there was a problem with shipping. The courier's plane got delayed, so we wont have it up and running for another 5 hours or so. Youre free to wait around.
You: What about Resident Evil: Suckage?
Cashier: We dont have it yet, either. But I heard the theater on the other side of town is playing it.
GARBAGE!
Don't forget when the movie comes to DVD, make sure you have the proper DVD player to play it and the DVD player manufacturer has properly censored and approved it for release. Just buy all three types of machines to make sure you can run it.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Fact #1, and I agree.Quote:
Because the gaming industry should be professional,
Fact #2.Quote:
and large entertainment industries in this country all have a set day in which all their products come out. The music industry has Tuesday, and the movie industry has Tuesday and Friday.
The problem is you just said the equivalent of "the sky is blue and oranges are round", the two don't actually have anything to do with each other.
The professionalism I want to see in the gaming industry is in regards to the people working in it, not the homogenization of release dates. The industry growing up in regards to the people working in it is a good thing but maturity has its downsides too, and I think the regulating of releases would be just another way to dull things down.
-edit- You're bringing up points faster than I can reply! Gah!
You: Yea, Id like to get a ticket for GutFucker 3.
Cashier: Sorry, today was the ship date. We'll have it up and running tomorrow. But give us a call beforehand just to make sure.
Been over that once, we're in agreement on ship date/release date.
You: Hmm... okay. What about Blue Rhapsody? Can I get a ticket for that?
Cashier: Well... there was a problem with shipping. The courier's plane got delayed, so we wont have it up and running for another 5 hours or so. Youre free to wait around.
Shipping issue, and pretty rare. I usually tell people to come in at noon-ish on day of arrival and it (usually) works just fine.
You: What about Resident Evil: Suckage?
Cashier: We dont have it yet, either. But I heard the theater on the other side of town is playing it.
The theater on the other side of town paid shipping to get it earlier. Also the theater on the other side of town is run by a competing chain that got the rights to the movie for that area.
James
Dull things down how? Like, what is it now, the guess-when-you-can-buy-the-game is a fucking game to you? Its an adventure that you derive enjoyment from?Quote:
I think the regulating of releases would be just another way to dull things down.
I want to be able to go into a store on Tuesday and see all the releases of the week, for all platforms, and for all DVDs and music. I dont want to make 2 or 3 trips to the mall just to get a game. I want to go once. I dont want to call/harass the poor sales associates at EB with constant inquiries about when a game will be on the shelf. I want to be able to wake up Tuesday morning (or whatever day) with the full knowledge and confidence that the game I want that was scheduled to come in on Tuesday will be there when I go to the mall.
Anything less is just poor customer service.
Not getting a game in on the promised delivery date is unprofessional. Making all games come out on the exact same day of the week is just over-regulation for what seems to be minimal gain at best, especially when the game could have been selling for a few days prior to its now-artificial on-shelf time.
James
What's even worse than this is the games that slip out of their release date for no damn reason, like Gungrave OD and Guilty Gear XX did.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Companies shouldn't set a release date unless it's 100% sure it's going to hit, but I guess stores like EB need a release date a year in advance just to sell preorders.
It sure was fun going in last week to get Gungrave OD and see that it slipped to next week, for apparently no reason.
So if they all came out Tuesday, which is the same date or earlier then the dates we have at this very moment, will be a bad thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by James
I'm not quite following this one, stores won't stock on Sunday, and the truck leaves on Monday, so Tuesday is the earliest date, and it works for movies and games so I honestly don't see why we need games coming out every single day of the week when it could be one single day.
If anything it'll make games come out sooner on Tuesday, instead of waiting for Thursday / Friday for no reason.
At this point I'd just like to say that anything that makes games come out sooner is a bad thing. I've got enough bugs to work around as-is, I'd rather not encourage them to come up with a new way to justify more.
James
So a game coming out Tuesday, instead of Friday (like Burnout 3), is bad?Quote:
Originally Posted by James
Ok.... :wtf:
Burnout 3 was Wednesday.
James
The official release date supplied by the company and advertised was 9-10, so I'm just going on that.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
I agree with Diffusion X's arguement and can't see any good reason why someone could argue otherwise. Regarding music, DVDs and their "Street date", i work at a Borders book store where we make sure those items are out on the shelves and new release rack on Tuesday morning before the store opens. That way the kid outside wanting the new Megadeth album can walk in, get it, get out and start headbanging - simple. Thats the way it should be with games.
For a new release that is coming out on Tuesday, be it a dvd, or new cd, etc etc, we get those shipped to us at least 4 days in advance, so those new Jay-Z albums, LoTr DVD'S actually are in our store, confirmed with our own eyes that we have them physically in a box(es) in our back room... all we have to do is wait until Tuesday to place them on the floor for sale. I just dont get what the hard concept is, or why it'd hurt the gaming industry for a similar model to be in place.
Because the product does you no good hanging out in the back room, on a shelf, where nobody can buy it.
Roufuss, how does quoting something that's clearly wrong help you?
James
It only waits there for 3 or 4 days until the street date, people buy it when it comes out all the same.
How the hell can anyone argue against release dates?
Standardized release dates work favorably for everyone involved. People knowing when to expect something = more people buying day one. Music and Movie sales *gasp* go up on Tuesdays, and profits that day are greater than other weekdays. Not a coincidence.
The Tuesday release has a lot of favorable effects, it's a really good plan: Monday is the day for any stragglers to get their deliveries in. Come Tuesday morning, everything is out on the floor and on the same ground. Sales on Tuesday effectively gauge the future performance of new releases relative to each other, and allow a store's model stock to be adjusted accordingly. If something sells really well the first day, odds are it'll continue that way in the immediate future, and knowing that fact on Tuesday gives the store time put in an order for more copies of something and recieve that order by the weekend, when the majority of people are going to be spending.
In regards to the consumer: They'd know when to expect all new releases. The best time to go and get something and have it almost guaranteed to be there is as soon as possible. With the current model, there is no definite gauge of when exactly that is, it varies wildly, on both the devloper end and the distributor end. Plus, if you want more than one title, and want to get them as soon as they release, you're looking at multiple trips. That's inconvenient.
Putting that stuff out before everyone else doesnt do anyone any good, either, because then you get the mess that you have now with game releases. Some people break the street date, so everyone feels the need to, so then publishers start shipping games Tuesdays instead of Mondays, so some people have the game Tuesday night and some Wednesday morning, etc. Its a disaster caused by people feeling release dates are not good enough for them.Quote:
Because the product does you no good hanging out in the back room, on a shelf, where nobody can buy it.
Yea... I cant tell you how many times we've had problems because we're on a razor's edge... like we promised to get the games for customers by Tuesday night at 7:00pm but something happened so we get angry customers. Happened with Madden 2005, actually. Getting the games early would eliminate all these problems and lead to better customer relations.Quote:
For a new release that is coming out on Tuesday, be it a dvd, or new cd, etc etc, we get those shipped to us at least 4 days in advance, so those new Jay-Z albums, LoTr DVD'S actually are in our store, confirmed with our own eyes that we have them physically in a box(es) in our back room... all we have to do is wait until Tuesday to place them on the floor for sale.
Its an agreement - publishers send their product early, retailers promise to hold it back until the release date.
I also want to say this is the stupidest argument Ive ever seen on TNL. You have to be a total retard to think that the current "maybe on tuesday/maybe on wednesday" situation is better than one in which all games come out on the same day. Its like saying that the PC game industry was better off before they switched to the small, uniform box size. It doesnt make any sense.
Yes wholeheartedly. If they don't want to do Tuesday because they're afraid the DVD/CD market may hurt their sales then they should simply make release day Friday or Monday.
I thought it was just assumed after the Jeff Hardy debacle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne
There's no reason not to standardize release dates. Having 8 games come out every day of the week is unprofessional. If I want 5 games I'm going to have to make 2 or 3 trips to the store, and you don't see anything wrong with that? Customer service hasn't been the game industries best selling point, infact customer service from Sony and other companies is so poor you can tell the business aren't being run the best they can be.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
Over-regulation? It's for the customers. It would probably sell more games with customers knowing the new releases come out on a given day, instead of a game coming out on Thursday while you've already been to the store. It would also mean narrowing down the release date would be ten times easier. Can we make this Tuesday for release? No, okay well then it'll be next Tuesday.
There's no reason to not do it. It would definitely increase traffic upon releases because you know that if something's coming out, it's out on Tuesday, and you plan your schedule accordingly.
Tuesday AND Friday? Do you mean DVDs for Tuesday, and theaters for Friday? Because DVDs don't come out on Tuesdays. Sometimes there are movies that come out on wednesdays in theaters too.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
DVDs don't come out on Tuesdays? That's the MAIN day for DVD releases.
Most games ship on Tuesday and are in-store by Wednesday anyway. In fact, if gamestop or ebgames lists a non-Tuesday release, you can safely bet that the date is just an estimate and not something that the publisher has made official.
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Originally Posted by TobalRox
No shit. I don't see why people think the game industry should follow the movie industry's release model. It has just as many problems. Movies don't always get released in theaters on Fridays. More and more of them are actually moving to Wednesday releases. Both Star Wars prequels and both Matrix sequels immediately come to mind as examples.
Napolean Dynamite had been in NY/LA theaters for two months before it came to the Chicago area. Garden State was a similar situation. Should gamers have to deal with this "limited release" crap too?
Really, you can't even compare the release date standards of the movie and game industries, because their business/profit/distribution models are entirely different.
serious question:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamoscott
How are the distribution models different?
Because one gets them in the hands of consumers on time, and the other doesn't.
Release dates are MUCH more reliable now than they ever were in the past. In the NES/Genesis/SNES days, games just arrived when they did.
Most new games are shipped on Tuesday now anyway.
They're more reliable than they were ten years ago, maybe, but they're worse than they were even just a few years ago, when I could count on EB to get stuff in ON the "ship" date.
Its just unreliable. Thats all there is to it. And unreliability is no good.
Publishers pimp release dates in commercials and advertisements and on their websites (and that date is usually a Tuesday), but the games dont actually get in the store that day. Its the ship date. Usually.
That sort of crap is just unacceptable. I dont see why people are giving excuses asto why publishers are allowed to pimp these dates and not deliver it on that day.
Movies are sold/rented/leased/whatever to theaters in blocks (usually consisting of like 3-4 films) from a studio. This gives studios leverage in distributing a variety of movies and helps to ensure that theaters will not only show sure-fire hits guaranteed to make them money. So for example, when New Line is shopping around something like LOTR (guaranteed blockbuster) to theaters, more than likely the movie is being packaged in a block with two or three lesser-known/independent/niche/whatever films (ones that have a greater potential to flop). This model facilitates the distribution of "smaller" films and helps spread out and lessen the risk of making/marketing/distributing such films for the studio.Quote:
Originally Posted by Videodrone
If I had the time, I could give you a much more complicated and involved answer, but unfortunately, I am at work right now. That's just one aspect of how they differ though, and my above example is really simplified.
Huge movies do that in order to reach maximum profit, if they released on Friday you'd have a lot more people turned over to competing movies due to showings selling out. Releasing on Wed., the people that just can't wait for the weekend go see it then, and the more casual moviegoers can see it over the weekend with less chance of sellout. Makes sense, and it's not breaking street date, it's modifiying street date for extreme cases.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamoscott
What the hell are you going on about? That wouldn't happen. You're comparing with the wrong market, anyway, the model to follow is the DVD market, in which everything comes out on Tuesday, nationwide.Quote:
Napolean Dynamite had been in NY/LA theaters for two months before it came to the Chicago area. Garden State was a similar situation. Should gamers have to deal with this "limited release" crap too?
The DVD market works a lot better than the game market. For DVDs, if there are three releases I want coming out one week, I can go on my lunch break on Tuesday and leave the store with them all, whereas in the game market I'd be told "oh, I think I saw that one in the back, but it'll take awhile for everything to be put out on the sales floor, the other is coming out thursday... ish, and the final one has been pushed back to next week. Again."Quote:
Really, you can't even compare the release date standards of the movie and game industries, because their business/profit/distribution models are entirely different.
Exactly. I've resorted to using the phone before hand. I hate that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bacon McShig
And companies save money by having fewer delivery days for bulk shipments instead paying for several smaller shipments several days a week. Stores that mostly just sell dvds or cds don't have that crap trickling in and building up until Tuesday. They get one or two huge shipments prior to that Tuesday. Games trickle in though. And for what? Because inefficiency is cheaper? It's not. Not only is the logistical network for distribution wasting a bunch of money, not capitalizing on that single day release where consumers, who are already in the store for dvds and/or cds equals lost money. The way it is is stupid and can't be argued for logically.
So movie studios can modify their release standards at their own discretion, but publishers are not allowed to do the same for the game industry?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bacon McShig
You are completely missing my point. The reason the DVD market is able to operate like this is because of theaters. There is no equivalent to the "movie theater" for the gaming industry, so release dates on videogames are far more important than they are for DVDs.Quote:
What the hell are you going on about? That wouldn't happen. You're comparing with the wrong market, anyway, the model to follow is the DVD market, in which everything comes out on Tuesday, nationwide.
In most cases, if you go to the store to buy a particular DVD, you probably already saw it sometime during the 3-6 months it was available for your viewing pleasure at a nearby theater, or watched it on TV when it originally aired, or had the VHS version, etc. Having it as soon as possible is not that important. Compare that to the guy who has been waiting for Halo 2 for 2+ years and has taken November 9th off from work along with the rest of his friends. Even though the game is finished, you think he wants to wait until the following Tuesday to get to experience the game for the first time, because of some arbitrarily defined standard release day?
Plus, you are also completely ignoring the fact that DVD's of finished films are infinitely easier to produce than videogames, which are often feverishly worked on by development teams up to the 11th hour. A DVD's main selling point (the movie itself) was done months and months before it hits shelves, because it had to be done for its theater release. Everything else is just extras.
Really, what's the big fucking deal if it states the ship date or the in-store date?Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Please. Very few movies are released on Wednesdays and a huge portion of the ones that are released on Wednesdays are done so on the Wednesday prior to a holiday weekend. And you never hear about a movie getting released on a day other than Wednesday or Friday. And you're never disappointed when you get to the theater and the movie that said it was opening on a Wednesday actually does open on a Wednesday instead of having to hear "oh, we think it might be here tomorrow; check back then; otherwise, definitely Friday, unless the release date slipped a week."Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamoscott
**edit. And a little googling led to this:
I wonder when sales figures for dvds are posted? Games?Quote:
albums are released on Tuesdays because sales figures for albums are released on Mondays. While films are ranked according to weekend sales figures, the billboard charts are determined according to weekly sales. Thus, in order to maximize their sales potential, albums have to be released immediately after the posting of the previous week's sales figures.
The UK has a standardised release date for games - Friday. I don't think a single game has ever been (officially) released on another date, although some stores do like to sell the big games a day early, for instance I got Vice City on a Thursday night.
Maybe it's purely because we're a smaller market, but if the UK can standardise release dates the US should be able to.
When this whole "ship date" business came about, it was very annoying. But now, I'll see (take Fable for example) September 14th as the release date and I'll think to myself, "Okay, I'll go in tomorrow, because that's just the ship date."
It WAS an inconvienance, it was just a change in the industry. Now, most of us are used to this change so, for me at least, it's not as bothersome.
I would still prefer if they came out on Tuesdays and stuck to that date. It wouldn't make the game come out any faster or anything, it would just come out on Tuesday and we'd KNOW it would be there on Tuesday.
I mistyped and meant to type that they dont' come out on Fridays. They only come out on tuesdays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy
Ah, thanks for that. The only reason I didn't go with "only" instead of "main" was because I'm not sure when el cheapo DVDs are released. For big releases, Tues. is definitely the standard.
So you think that pissing people off by giving misleading dates and haphazard, case-specific shipping in fact helps the industry, then? And that people knowing when to expect something and actually being able to get it on that date would hurt it? Do you know how freaking ridiculous you sound?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamoscott
You are insane. Did I say to alter the release date immediately, with no exceptions? No. But that is beside the point as November 9th, not coincidentally, happens to be a Tuesday. Halo fans will be out in droves on November 9th and walk away with game in hand, because it has a concrete street date, whereas if it followed the example put forth by most games, it would have a shipping date of the 9th, but then get shipped a little late, and retailers would recieve copies anywhere from the 11th to the 14th, pissing off customers and pissing off retailers that have customers pestering them nonstop while they can only shrug their shoulders as to when they'll get it. Halo 2 is a overwhelming point in my favor, not yours.Quote:
In most cases, if you go to the store to buy a particular DVD, you probably already saw it sometime during the 3-6 months it was available for your viewing pleasure at a nearby theater, or watched it on TV when it originally aired, or had the VHS version, etc. Having it as soon as possible is not that important. Compare that to the guy who has been waiting for Halo 2 for 2+ years and has taken November 9th off from work along with the rest of his friends. Even though the game is finished, you think he wants to wait until the following Tuesday to get to experience the game for the first time, because of some arbitrarily defined standard release day?
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Originally Posted by Mamoscott
It turns out that video sales (dvds and vhs) are also tracked by billboard like cds, hence the Tuesday release dates. It has nothing to do with theatrical release schedules.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scourge
You obviously don't hang out on any dvd/home theater forums. Believe it or not, there are people that are as passionate about movies and quality home theater hardware and software as the most fanatical game fans and Tuesday, weekly, is a HUGE day for them.Quote:
In most cases, if you go to the store to buy a particular DVD, you probably already saw it sometime during the 3-6 months it was available for your viewing pleasure at a nearby theater, or watched it on TV when it originally aired, or had the VHS version, etc. Having it as soon as possible is not that important.