First it was the Scorpion King at $34.99 MSRP (which you could find for less than $24).

Then it was Brokeback Mountain Special Edition (which was day-and-date with the SE 2-disc DVD) for $34.99 MSRP (which you could find for $24).

Now, Wicker Man from Warner is a Combo at $28.99 MSRP (now found at many places for $20).

I'm sure their new movies will still mainstain a premium it's nice to know prices are falling...


EDIT: WICKER MAN NOT A COMBO AFTER ALL, OPPS!

the only thing wrong with combo releases is the price, now with 30gb I couldn't care less, only the price annoys me

-Gary

are the prices dropping because retailers aren't moving as many of them vs regular hd-dvds

or

are the prices dropping because the studios are lowering the msrp?

Well, $34.99 MSRP is pretty generous IMO. That means Best Buy isn't gonna try to charge $37.99 for them (are they allowed to sell above MSRP prices?).

Wicker Man is $28.99 MSRP, so even regular stores can knock out a few bucks.

it's only $20 on amazon.com though:

http://www.amazon.com/Wicker-Man-Rated-Unrated-DVD/dp/B000MEYFYQ/sr=8-9/qid=1170368299/ref=pd_bbs_sr_9/002-9871171-9837668?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

If announced titles are correct, the trend is actually heading up again. "The Good Shepherd" MSRP is $39.95 and "The Nutty Professor" and "The Jerk" have an MSRP of $34.98. What's even worse is that that the last two are 15/9 combos and "The Nutty Professor" is apparently barebones.

hmm, $34.98 sounds like a far cry for the $40 for most combos...

it's a good trend.. $34.98 means you can find it for less than $25 probably (even cheaper online)...

it wasn't that long ago that King Kong (not a combo) was released at $40 MSRP.

It's a good trend, but they should be the same price period! They're still between $5-$11.50 more expensive then the non-Combo Blu-Ray verions. You can check out the following sale as proof:
http://www.buy.com/retail/specialty_store_6b.asp?loc=63390&pageReq=1&sortby=&filter=

My Best Buy almost always prices HD DVD and combos at MSRP or occasionally higher.

So I almost never buy HD DVDs and combos there.

Spot the correlation.

I think owners have said that The Wickerman is not actually a combo though


http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/4328/wickry2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


edit: been confirmed by Peter Bracke of HighFi Digest. Not a combo so the cheaper sale price makes sense.
:(

I own it, not a combo. Amazon has screwed up cover art. It was probably going to be a combo at some point, but like Poseidon, they changed their minds for whatever reason.

Fearless is still outrageously expensive in Canada.

I got Batman Begins (CAD$20 on sale) for literally half the price of what Fearless goes for at many stores (CAD$40).

I'd say prices are droping becase of low sales and the fact that universal is going 90% combos so hopfully that means the cost to make each disc has lowered alowing for lower prices.

I was never a fan of combo discs. But it does give the viewer a chance to see the difference between the two versions. On the negative side I prefer one side of the disc to have a printed label as the media is marked very easily.