The Double-Dip Mentality

[jahcs]

...The rant about LoTR (not in the post I'm responding to) should be aimed as much at the poster as at the distributors-- the info was out for almost a year ahead of release.  Even I, who shun all things media, knew about it.  Caveat emptor was probably an ancient concept when Latin was young.

--Pete
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I'll start out with the basics on my "rant."

First: It was simply an anecdote directly relating to the topic at hand and the way movie companies release many versions of films.

Second: I got exactly what I paid for. No more, no less.

Third: There are several reasons why I didn't buy any more LotR movies.
- I was a bit miffed.
- Some of my friends purchased extended versions I can borrow.
- I kept waiting for the next super duper version to come out. The LotR Special features and Extended versions are quite a bit better than a run of the mill Special Edition DVD with a preview, extra comentary, and some crappy deleted scenes.
- The price of the Extended versions warrants more time between purchases for some of us working folk, especially if we already have a version of the movie. I wasn't going to buy "normal" versions of the other movies if better ones were coming out and why have the extended versions mixed with a vanilla FotR?


Also, if you don't know a sock is missing is it really lost? What I'm getting at here is that at that time there was no reason for me to suspect that a super-duper version would be out so soon. No materials or employees in the store suggested it. Nothing in the current advertising on t.v. or in magazines I had seen suggested it. Nothing my friends had seen or said suggested it. It was a $15.99 DVD, not a new car, I won't go to the ends of the Earth researching and agonizing over it's purchase.