teddyleevin wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:28 am
Amazon is going to still keep putting out however many of the blus left but after saying some of the MOD DVDs were "available in 3 to 4 months" then to "temporarily out of stock," they are mostly all "no longer available from this seller." Were they going to do their own burning and decided not to? Are these discs dead-dead? They should still be available from other retailers but I expect that's all the extant stock there is.
I’m pretty sure Amazon just has a “storefront” for the Warner Archive products they were already selling, which WB kind of presented as a replacement for the recently-shuttered version of wbshop.com, which was also run by a third party. (I think the new version of that site is run by a different third party, it just seems to be more merchandise-oriented and doesn’t sell Warner Archive releases.)
I doubt having Amazon produce the discs was ever the plan — didn’t Amazon recently announce that they’re discontinuing their MOD disc operations entirely? I guess it’s
possible that Warner is not going to produce any more stock of their WAC releases, but it seems more likely to me that they’re simply between runs on a lot of titles. As I understand it, the WAC blu ray releases are “MOD” in the sense that they’re pressed in very small batches. I know disc production has been struggling all over the place lately, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon is simply sold out of a lot of titles and it may take longer than usual for more to get pressed, since supply seems to be running short of demand on less-niche titles too. (Then again, I don’t know if the manufacturer they use for those small WAC runs is one that also deals with bigger releases, so problems seen elsewhere may not have any direct bearing here.)
Out of curiosity, what are some titles that are “no longer available from this seller”?
