Warner Reveals Blu-ray Pricing Strategy

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Warner Reveals Blu-ray Pricing Strategy

Posted July 11, 2008 02:04 PM by Josh Dreuth

Beginning in early September through sometime early next year, Warner Home Video will offer retailers certain catalog Blu-ray titles for $11 each after rebate. After retail mark-up, that should result in titles being a few dollars less than their current retail pricing. Under the program, retailers would purchase the discs at full price, but would be able to receive a cash rebate upon the sale of each unit.

A few of the discounted Blu-ray titles will be 'The Fugitive', 'Enter the Dragon', 'Clockwork Orange', 'The Shining', 'The Aviator', 'The Road Warrior', and 'Swordfish'.

Warner will also offer some newer titles, such as '300', 'The Departed', 'I Am Legend', 'Ocean's 13' and 'We Are Marshall', at lower prices, but they will not be discounted to the same extent as the previously mentioned titles.

Lionsgate had previously discounted their early Blu-ray titles, which has led to a noticeable increase in sales. Warner is no doubt hoping to see a similar effect with their titles this important holiday season.