by Lunkhead on May 27th, 2006, 1:21 pm
That is one concern, I agree. If they price em sky-high, that'll stop me cold. That's why I've yet to get box sets of the original STAR TREK (which I'd love to have). They're consistently priced at $100 and up. My OUTER LIMITS sets cost me $52 each a couple year backs, and that's about as high as I wanna go in one shot. I'm used to getting a lot for my money now. I get GILLIGAN'S ISLAND seasons for around $32, the UNIVERSAL MONSTER LEGACY sets (with an average of 5 films each) for $20, etc.
So let's look at this. If they did chronological sets of 2 years each, this is how it would break down:
Set# number of shorts
1-----11
2-----16
3-----16
4-----16
5-----17
6-----11
7-----16
8-----16
9-----17
10----16
11----14
12----16
13-----8
Now what would be a fair price for each set? Or could the price vary according to # of shorts and/or any bonus materials? Even if they were a straight $20 a set, that would be a total of $380 for all of them. Pretty steep in the long run, but I can't imagine a set being lower than $20. That might be fair, especially if the prints are restored to pristine quality. It would take time to acquire all the sets, but then again, it would be easier to check each set for any playback problems. A lot of things to consider, but I'm still glad they may be released, hopefully at a sensible price.
The original Sony disks only averaged 5 shorts each, and were priced around $24 to $26 each. Some of these were before box sets really took off in popularity. But Sony continued to go with 5 per disk, and then the colorizing route (which obviously failed). People know better now and want more for their buck. I hope they consider that, cause reasonably priced sets will sell much better and Sony in turn would rake in more - SO EVERYONE WOULD BE HAPPY.