Criterion Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.2

[bjeggert82]

My "new" disc was all new: new logo, new copyright date on the back, new date of the film on left side of front cover....in other words, the new packaging.

Did you order the single disc? Or the new 3-disc?

[tavernier]

I got the single disc to upgrade my set.

[bjeggert82]

Maybe the single disc has the new art, but the 3-disc has the old art. I don't know why this would be, but it's certainly the case with mine. And I've just opened mine and viewed a few scenes--it's definitely the new version in an anamorphic transfer...

I don't have a digital camera, or I'd post pictures of the box art.

As I said previously, the outside box for the three keep cases is a but more squared and solid, but otherwise (in terms of art) it's exactly the same as the old version. No new logo or anything. Not in digipak. Plastic, armary cases inside a larger plastic case--as with the older version.

[arsonfilms]

This has the potential to be a major cock-up, especially with the old version still technically in print and actually on-sale in many brick and morter stores. I'll be pretty irritated if I get an old copy of Brazil with a new sticker, or even if all the new 3-disc sets turn out to have the old artwork.

[Gigi M.]

I emailed Matt Lipson las week and he told that the new Brazil 3 disk set was going to be a digipak. Your case is stange, since I ordered all the Sep 5 titles from DVDPlanet and received a shipping confirmation for all of them except the new Brazil 3 disc set.

Edit: How's the disk art? Does it has the new logo?

[kinjitsu]

what are you guys doing with your DVD cases? are you involved with some strange sport that I am yet unaware of?

Cardboard + glue + plastic. Think about it

because ... when they rub together the clear plastic gets dirty and clouded...

My suggestion is that you change brands and not rub them so tightly together.

[bjeggert82]

I emailed Matt Lipson las week and he told that the new Brazil 3 disk set was going to be a digipak. Your case is stange, since I ordered all the Sep 5 titles from DVDPlanet and received a shipping confirmation for all of them except the new Brazil 3 disc set.

Edit: How's the disk art? Does it has the new logo?

The disc art is identical--no new logo, as I've stated in my previous posts.

Either Matt Lipson was wrong, or he doesn't know what digipak is, or it's as arsonfilms suggests... a "cock-up." I hope it's not the latter of the three.

[cdnchris]

Well I got Seduced and Abandoned in the mail and it too, like Kicking and Screaming, comes in a clear keepcase, so I guess this is their new thing. Allows them to get more creative with their cover art I guess.

[Steven H]

I've always preferred clear amarays to black, so if they move to that I'll be happy. For what it's worth, their Phantom of Liberty disc looks great in a clear case (I, for one reason or another (I won't blame the cat... ok I will blame the cat) had to switch a few, etc).

Digipacks and clear cases from here on, it looks like. Worse things could happen. But if we're paying big money for cardboard, it should be sturdier.

[fdm]

Got my first copy (pre-crunched of course) of Six Moral Tales yesterday... have another copy arriving any day from a different source, slim chance it will not arrive pre-crunched, but you never know. Perhaps somewhere along the line I will get a good one...

Not really looking forward to the yet even more cardboard that's inbound as of yesterday (Samurai, Amarcord, Playtime), although perhaps one or two will arrive okay.

Keep 'em coming Criterion, I'll just keep returning/swapping them until I get sick of doing that (getting fairly close...), then I'll stop buying them altogether.

[domino harvey]

Criterion is going to appeal to two new customers for every whiny one they lose with these digipaks, so

[Mr Pixies]

Hi guys. Any one else receive/get the Six Moral Tales boxset and have it fit the conents perfectly? Mine is not oversized at all, I'll add a pic later, I guess. I ordered it from DVDPlanet, and it's not damaged.

[Cinesimilitude]

that is a looser box than the Doinel set, but I really don't see what all the fuss is about (my set hasnt arrived yet). as someone else said, It makes it easier to get the cases out.

[fdm]

Criterion is going to appeal to two new customers for every whiny one they lose with these digipaks, so

Doubt it.

Also think the cookie-cutter redesign is pretty lame; don't think that's going to make much of a difference either.

More likely all these changes are to get some of their customers to come back. (Picture-boxing anyone?)

They've already milked their market. Perhaps they should try cutting their prices instead, rather than using pretty cardboard boxes and overly thick books/booklets and whatever else they're going to try next to get a few extra sales.

Just watch when they finally come out with their $50 HD-DVDs or BlueRays...

[leefarber]

So what's the verdict on the new 3-disc Brazil? Same as the last edition, or different?

Any pics to post?

[GringoTex]

Doubt it.

Also think the cookie-cutter redesign is pretty lame; don't think that's going to make much of a difference either.

More likely all these changes are to get some of their customers to come back. (Picture-boxing anyone?)

They've already milked their market. Perhaps they should try cutting their prices instead, rather than using pretty cardboard boxes and overly thick books/booklets and whatever else they're going to try next to get a few extra sales.

This post makes no sense. Criterion puts far more monetary investment into producing non-new release dvds than the even the biggest Hollywood conglomerates (Warners, Fox, Paramount, etc)-- all because their business model works perfectly. They just released a box set that includes a 200 page novel. Does that sound like a DVD company that's in trouble?

[Cinesimilitude]

I agree, I almost posted a big long rant about how much fdm's posts are pissing me off, but let's just say I miss the ignore button...

[domino harvey]

who even complains about the prices anymore? using DVDPlanet I'm paying as much for any Criterion title as I would most other movies, big deal.

[godardslave]

Yeah I agree, complaining about criterion's prices is like so 2004.

[Cinesimilitude]

I agree, I am willing to pay more for an excellent criterion HD release. I'm guessing 44.95 (maybe 49.95) MSRP for the discs, working out to 30 (35 max) USD for the first HD criterion titles with etailer discounts. The cost of the discs is really the only reason to raise the price, since they've been mastering films in HD for a lot of titles and selling them at an MSRP at 30 and 40$ a disc based on extras.

Now, if they start getting into HD extras, then I can see them raising the costs a bit, but If the discounted price ever becomes 50$ for a single movie, I'll go herzog on my shoe.

[domino harvey]

I will PayPal everyone reading this ten American dollars if Criterion actually releases HD-DVD titles, because folks it's just never going to take off.

[HerrSchreck]

Careful... steady... they're making it harder and harder to declare personal bankruptcy nowadays.

Anyhow, I've Read The Above Statement, Dom. My registration in the sweepstakes is hereby official.

[Cinesimilitude]

I will PayPal everyone reading this ten American dollars if Criterion actually releases HD-DVD titles, because folks it's just never going to take off.

I'll be waiting for it ([email protected])

thanks.

[fdm]

Now I have two pre-damaged copies of Six Moral Tales to return/swap/whatever. Post office was particularly brutal with the second package (crunched in two directions), the first one was 'merely' a nasty crunched corner. Both online stores were pretty f-ink stupid with how they packed them. I'll split the difference between the three (Criterion being the third).

Anyway, I'm done toying with you for now... my never-ending disgust with cardboard persists. You can all go back into denial mode and pretend that there is no problem. Seems like the thing to do these days.

[What A Disgrace]

Personally, my set (like all of my digipaks) arrived uncrunched and is ever so safe and pretty on my shelf. =D>