First, I never assumed any PALS would think I actually said this to the employee in those exact words. Instead, it was very much, "Bummer" and then moving on to rambling on about how someone did a cool zine about their video and then put the link at the back of the zine.
Misread my audience here. I didn't think anyone would think the rant was real or that I was trying to play it off as real. I assumed the line would be read as my broad old man yelling at clouds rant... and I thought other old men would want to yell at clouds with me.
Second,
@Watson, it is not necessarily the lack of DVDs, instead it is the inability to purchase a physical artifact of the video.
I get that a run of DVDs could be expensive, but, there are all sorts inexpensive physical artifacts that can be sold. A zine is an obvious one and really cool physical artifact that could supplement the video. A zine could be professionally printed or printed at home and then stapled together for a cost of basically nothing. A sticker would also be cool. Both of these can be low investment/high profit artifacts. Any shop or local filmer could make these for next to nothing.
Maybe, I'm that old and it is my turn to yell at clouds, which is fine, I'll own it. From my perspective, I've already gone through the hassle of finding the shop and deciding it was the one in the city that I was going to visit. And, now, I'm being told to do what I've already done all over again.
Finally, buying a product from a major company defeats the purpose of going out of my way to buy something from a local shop while traveling. I don't go through shit fast enough to justify buying 4 DLX boards in the matter of 2 weeks driving from Point A to Point B. Also, the higher cost and much smaller profit margins don't make the--somewhat wasteful--purchase justifiable. It costs me more to give a lot less.
Topic: Local/Shop Video Formats (Read 1370 times)