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Topic: Is 8mm generally selling more than 16mm?
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted June 20, 2012 03:38 PM
Yes Adrian's is a good point,but there's also the case where a
saturation point is reached,by that I mean that people will only
pay up to a certain level.Even with the realisation that it may be
their only chance of obtaining a certain film,if they think it's over
priced,it won't sell."Die Hard" used as an example,I have a print
myself,but this film is getting on now,and it's S/8 digging it's own
grave,because not many people are going to part with serious
money for a film that can be got quite cheap on dvd and shown
on a big screen.I suspect there are even people out there that
purchase a film and lock it away with the idea it will gain in
value,to a point this may be true,but if nobody wants it,then
that's dead money.I would think it could be true of the "Star
Wars" brigade,some are very expensive prints,but this again is
a very old film,everybody's seen it,so someone buying it as an
investment just might be disappointed in a few years time.
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 21, 2012 08:59 AM
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Once again, its all about supply and demand.
Joe, it is partially right, if we are talking about the economic matters.
But this is about collectable items, which there is another variable we should think of.
Let us see in vinyl collecting hobby (as many of us here also collecting).
Between 1970-1980 there were more vinyl pressed than cassette. People listened to vinyls at home and only use cassette in the car. Hence, today obviously more vinyls in the market than cassette.
Therefore:
Vinyl ---> high supply
cassette ----> low supply
while on the other hand in terms of sound quality vinyl is better than cassette. In parallelism to 16mm vs 8mm, 16mm is better than 8mm.
But let's randomly take a popular album during that time, for example Phil Collins "Face Value".
You can struggle to sell that album if it is on cassette even for 50 cents, but can easily let the same album go for $1 if it is on vinyl.
This is the opposite with the samples I took above from Ebay that 8mm sell better than 16mm for the same title and same condition.
To sum up, in collectable scene, the theory of supply and demand does not work precisely as is in economic matters.
Once again, I am not talking about premium titles, just the usual titles, because premium titles will sell at good price no matter 16mm or 8mm.
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Winbert
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Once again, its all about supply and demand. There were far more prints struck in 16mm than there ever was in 8mm. Since the quantity of choice 8mm titles is lower, the price is climbing. Premium titles in both formats will always fetch high prices as long as they are in good condition.
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