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pointless wrote:Rollerball - Release Date: May 13th, 2014

Pre-order date: Wednesday, April 23rd.

Special Features:

• From Rome to Rollerball: The Full Circle

With regard to SAE and TT, we just wanted to clear up some ongoing confusion and misunderstandings about the relationship between the two companies.

Firstly, SAE is one of the most reputable (online) retailers in the business. Around since 1976 (long before the internet), SAE has for decades been the major purveyor of soundtrack and broadway show albums in the USA. Well-known to all the studios for their handling and distribution of film music, it was a logical decision by TT co-founder Nick Redman who has been producing soundtrack albums for 25 years, and in particular for Fox for the last 20-plus years, to pact with SAE for the retail and fulfillment end of TT's business model.

The model, well-known to SAE, since it has been employed with soundtrack albums for many years, made them the ideal outlet for DVDs and Blu-rays being marketed and retailed in exactly the same way. Like all aspects of TT's model it is based on simplicity both at the licensing and distribution ends of the spectrum.

SAE (based in Virginia), is contracted by TT (based in California) to handle everything to do with shipping and fulfillment. Bear in mind that TT is only one of dozens of labels for which SAE handles these same exact responsibilities. As TT has grown in size and influence, SAE has expanded to retail many DVDs and Blu-rays from other studios and labels. The net effect has been to make SAE a major player in home video distribution just as they had always been for recordings.

The growth factor has been sudden and immense, both for SAE and TT who are both small in terms of human resources. TT's decision to go to 5 titles a month has placed further strain on shipping and distribution necessities and like all things in life it will get sorted out as adjustments are made. Who knows, maybe one day SAE will operate on the same humongous scale as Amazon, but until that day a little bit of patience is required on everybody's part. SAE are taking on more staff to absorb the dramatic increase in volume and TT will work a lot harder to maintain deadlines and schedules -- the exponential growth of TT's business has been somewhat surprising, but rest assured every effort will be made to iron out the kinks and ensure a smoother operation. It's very difficult to prepare for something that's unknown and unexpected, and all anyone can do is roll with the changes as they appear and adapt as quickly as possible.

Thanks to all for your continued enthusiasm and support.

FrauBlucher wrote:Once again TT feels the need to explain their relationship with SAE. The following is from them on one of the many TT threads over at HTF. I went back several pages on the thread and do not see any reason for TT to defend their relationship.

EddieLarkin wrote:Uh huh. They posted it on Blu-ray.com at the same time, and have confirmed that they resumed sending screeners to them sometime ago.

tenia wrote:However, I guess nobody at HTF is asking what TT calls an "exponential growth". Because for me, it means "exponential growth of customers", but how do you do that when you haven't increased exponentially your lot size ? \:D/

Moe Dickstein wrote:Yes it's number of releases each month where the growth figures in.

They originally were doing one, then two, and now 5 and more. That's literally exponential

swo17 wrote:I look forward to ten years from now when these guys will be putting out 50,000 releases a month.

TT's decision to go to 5 titles a month has placed further strain on shipping and distribution necessities and like all things in life it will get sorted out as adjustments are made. Who knows, maybe one day SAE will operate on the same humongous scale as Amazon, but until that day a little bit of patience is required on everybody's part.

EddieLarkin wrote: