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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Anyway 
Quite a few here seem to collect everything Code Red on blu.
Did you all buy each and every dvd when they came out and were easier to get hold of or is it something new to you? |
I for one don't collect everything CR... just the titles I like (the same goes for any label). I think the issue with Code Red releases now is that you've pretty much got to jump on them as soon as they appear as it could be a case of 'here today, gone tomorrow' in an all too literal sense unfortunately. This has meant I've perhaps picked up a few titles that if they were released by other companies in non-limited editions I may have waited to purchase. Conversely, they've also released a lot of titles that if they had of been more widely available and for a cheaper price, I would have been more inclined to take a chance on a blind buy and picked them up rather than balking at the high price for what is essentially some z-grade schlock - not that there is anything wrong with z-grade schlock of course.
As mentioned above, my 'hardcore' DVD buying only spanned about 3 years, so even though in that time I did pick a fair few Code Red releases, I was only chipping into a fairly sizeable catalogue of titles most of which I'd never seven heard of, least of all seen.
Reading Blu-rage, a fair few of the (at least vocal) people who buy Code Red's product don't seem to have been around (or at least not buying DVDs anyway) when CR was releasing product to stores - plus to be fair that was during DVD's heyday when there was so much great product coming from lots of companies (the major studios included). A swamped market with a lot of choice meant that it was easy for releases to not get the attention they may have deserved by a lot of fans, I guess.