HELLRAISER 20th Anniversary Edition

What a waste of time and $$. With DVD on the way out making way for Blu Ray or HD DVD why do they bother making a 20th anniversary edition on a technology that will be gone in a couple of years?
DVD is going to the VHS route and in my opinion it's time studios started releasing less and less movies in the dvd format so people aren't wasting their money.

Hardly a waste of money. HD video formats own a mere fraction of the market. And there is no reason the materials on a new DVD can't be designed to be repurposed into HD the future. They may have done so.

"Your suffering will be legendary... even in Hell"

Waste of time and money...Well, we can not all have enough money to cough up for those ridiculous prices...

I do not see DVD going anywhere anytime soon. I still buy DVD's and will continue to do so. I do not care if I see the booger in Bruce Willis' nose or not... The Blue Ray and HD movies or all just as much waste a money as any others buddy.

It is inevitable. One DVD player for ONE DVD type....So, until then... I think I am fine with my cheap DVD's! :)

I'd add to lister and swan, but they pretty much nailed it.

As for HR... that was some messed up $#*! to see as a young teenager, but I saw it anyway. Even though I don't remember too many details, I think once or twice was enough. I don't think I'll be buying this one. Speaking of horror, I saw The Mist today. Pretty good. There was definitely a good balance of humor (intentional) and the macabre, and it's nice to have the whole audience cheer at point in the film... although, there was the jerkwad who texted next to me prompting me to move, but really what's the point? You paid $9 to use your searchlight in the dark to text a message to someone? I wanted to feed him to The Mist. Ahh, I've vented. I feel better. :)

Not a waste of money? Are you kidding? I got ask, do you still use your VCR and your VHS?
Why not spend the money on something that will be around longer. I know DVD is still king in terms of sales, but shellling out $$ for something that you probably won't watch when everything goes HD doesn't seem right, at least to me. Might as well spend the money on an up and coming technology. You wouldn't buy a CD Player knowing everything would be shifting to MP3s. Although right now it's a gamble, with Blu Ray and HD still battling out so I can see why some people might shy away from it.
Oh and swan, trust me once you gone high def, be it HD or Blu Ray, believe me you will start to care because the difference is very noticeable. I know it's a bit expensive now, but eventually they will drop just like when DVD came out.
All I'm saying is studios should start releasing less and less on DVD just like they did with VHS when DVD was taking over.
To each his own I guess.

Hanso, DVD may very well be on the way out but that time is at least a few years down the road. People do still buy CDs, 20 years or so after their introduction. So it is hardly a waste of time at this point.

And yes...I still use my VCR...all the time in fact. It's cheap...i still have loads of tapes, and it still works fine. I'm sure TiVo's and DVRs are great but for I've yet to have seen the great need to invest in one personally.

I actually plan on bypassing the HD format altogether if possible. I figure that while the big companies are fighting it out, they will be passed up by technology that will just let me download the movie to my computer and output it directly to my TV.

You invested in HD or Blu-ray? I guess you like expensive paperweights! :)

Do you remember how long it took for the DVD format to displace VHS? Many years... it might take that long for HD discs to do the same. So why shouldn't they distribute this DVD to a market share that is roughly 100 times greater (a rough estimate based on numbers I found today)? They would be fools not to!

Come on, $200 for an HD player isn't expensive.
Lister,
I have Blu Ray, cause it came with my Playstation 3, so I'm very pleased with my expensive paperweight :)
As far as downloadable movies go, I don't think that will ever get to the point of what VHS, DVD were and what this new format will be. It lends itself even more to piracy.
Studios aren't fools, that's why they have so much $$. Here's what's going to happen and why I think it's a waste of $$. 20th edition of Hellraiser comes out only on DVD. Fans go out and buy the film, they enjoy it, everything is great. Then a couple of years from now, lets say 25th edition comes out only on High Def format(i'm hoping Blu Ray wins, cause them I'm screwed). Fans who already own the 20th edition have to go out and spend more $$ to have it on High Def and enjoy it in their HD TVs. So they spent $$ to own the same thing and the studios is happy cause they made twice the property on the property. If they would've released on HD now and DVD, then fans have a choice of buying it on HD now (having a chance to decline buying the 25th HD edition that would still come out regardless of how many times the movie has been out) or buying on dvd and then in hd. The studios are happy cause they made a profit twice from the same property.

Tj,
WOW. Honestly I don't currently know anyone who still uses their VCR. My parents still have theirs but they don't use it. So you are the first, even though I don't know you personally. I wasa expecting you would say you had cassettes instead of CDs also, jk.
People still use CDs cause there isn't anything else. Computers, cars, stereos all come with CD players still. Maybe when a new format comes out things will change. There's a shift in the portable audio though, with mp3s taking the place of Cd portable players. Eventually CDs will end but that's in my opinion farther than the new HD formats taking over.

Like I said, to each his own. I'm not shellling out money to buy anything else on DVD until they say HD format is dead and everything is going back to DVD. If you guys do, that's cool, it's your $$, you earned it and can spend it anyway you want :)

See now, I never use my CDs for anything other than dumping music off to my computer and then my iPod. Even in my car. So there is "something else". And I download music from iTunes as well. CDs are going the way of cassette. It's just media evolution. Happens all the time.

No one is forcing anyone to by an HD version of the movie in the future. But if they are fans enough of the film, they probably will. Otherwise, they can practice delayed gratification (horrors!). Here's another solution: rent the standard DVD and buy HD version you think is inevitably coming.

And just wait, downloading movies will be the norm in just a few years. It's already happening and the quality + integration into existing home theaters will only accelerate.

Really now, if you are a fan of this movie, you should put your efforts into thanking the studio for giving it care and consideration (and possibly bolstering studio appeal for a "Nightbreed" special edition)... and maybe helping to "up" the budget of the eventual remake... rather than taking them to task for not releasing it in the (currently) niche format that you favor.

I'm really surprised Lister mentioned Nightbreed. From the stories I've heard, Morgan Creek owns the extra footage for Nightbreed and they have no plans on releasing a special edition, they'd rather bury it into forgotten Hell than do anything with it.
were you talking about the proposed Hellraiser remake or a Nightbreed remake?

the edition of Hellraiser that I got at Best Buy is very hard to find now but it rocks, both Hellraiser and Hellraiser II in a double DVD box set, everything from each movie is in that set so dont count on me buying this new version some i'm pretty much done with the Hellraiser franchise although I'm glad they rereleased the DVD for Hell on Earth (although I'll personally never buy it cause it sucks and Hellraiser 4: Pinheaded in Space isnt much better!)