johnyh
Established Member
As to physical 4K Discs, then while people are daft enough to shell out £20-30 on a Disc, the prices will never drop. (If people stopped buying them they would be half the price in next door to no time)
Bill
None of us like price inflation and 10+ years plus of austerity has only increased that feeling. But playing devil's advocate I would argue that price sensitivity is what has caused the difficultly for disc producers to increase prices over that period and all they have seen with UHD disks is a chance to correct that somewhat. (What were the launch prices of Blu-rays? Add N years inflation at 2-3% what do you get? Probably more than £25? )
I do understand that there is a great range of incomes on this website and so I'm not going to suggest that £25 is cheap. But when you are paying for a premium product prices are always going to contain a lot of margin. Hey the Leicester Sq Dolby cinema can charge £40+ for a good seat now.
I would also suggest that if we all 'just stopped buying them' that producers would just stop making them (albeit after a period of discounting the current stock.)
What we need now is for the product to become less niche and then the margin and production costs can be spread over greater sales. That requires us 'daft' people to keep buying them. (Although I do baulk at prices over £25.)