My guess — and this is just a guess, mind you — is that if DV is “focusing” on OOP titles it has less to do with the idea of no other product out there to compete with as it does the fact that they probably get these titles for dirt cheap. They know their customer base, and they seem intent on sticking to a certain, relatively low, price for the product. That probably means they have ceiling for which they are willing to pay to license ANY title.
Those Poco and Guess Who releases are able to reach a market of fans who haven’t seen those available in any format for years. That’s a good thing for them. But my guess is the labels and whoever else is involved in licensing those titles probably consider them “dead stock” at this point with no prospects of ever releasing them again so they are willing to let them go at a very reasonable fee.
I also wonder if, in some cases, the more established “audiophile” labels haven’t hurt themselves by setting a fairly high price they are willing to pay for licensing? MOFI or whoever comes knocking on your door and you’ve already established a relationship with them where they’ve never paid less than $XX for anything. So they now can’t get anything for under that price.
D-V comes along and asks about those Garfunkel titles in addition to the really obscure titles they’ve been picking through and you’re like “yeah sure. You can have ‘em”.
Those Poco and Guess Who releases are able to reach a market of fans who haven’t seen those available in any format for years. That’s a good thing for them. But my guess is the labels and whoever else is involved in licensing those titles probably consider them “dead stock” at this point with no prospects of ever releasing them again so they are willing to let them go at a very reasonable fee.
I also wonder if, in some cases, the more established “audiophile” labels haven’t hurt themselves by setting a fairly high price they are willing to pay for licensing? MOFI or whoever comes knocking on your door and you’ve already established a relationship with them where they’ve never paid less than $XX for anything. So they now can’t get anything for under that price.
D-V comes along and asks about those Garfunkel titles in addition to the really obscure titles they’ve been picking through and you’re like “yeah sure. You can have ‘em”.