Advance warning of titles to be removed from the storefront

[HT in Paradise]

Hello Friends;

My feature request is as follows: to have a sub section that lists titles that will "soon be removed" from the Kaleidescape storefront.

I recently noticed the Merchant Ivory production of "Howards End" featuring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, is now no longer available. Had I known it was to be removed, I would have immediately purchased it.

Thanks in advance.

HTinP

 

[Bigmoviefan]

Hello Friends;

My feature request is as follows: to have a sub section that lists titles that will "soon be removed" from the Kaleidescape storefront.

I recently noticed the Merchant Ivory production of "Howards End" featuring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, is now no longer available. Had I known it was to be removed, I would have immediately purchased it.

Thanks in advance.

HTinP

Good idea

 

[MikeKobb]

This is a good idea, but unfortunately rather difficult in practice. We don't always have a lot of notice of rights changes. It's also the case that sometimes a movie will be withdrawn from distribution during a rights transition to a new distributor, but after things settle down, it will return. So, that makes it tricky to publish that title on a list, when people could get upset later that they rushed to do a purchase only find that the movie came back again. And we frequently know in advance whether such a rights withdrawal is temporary or long-term.

 

[Ven]

I also think this is a great idea.

We don't always have a lot of notice of rights changes.

Short notice is better than no notice. At least it would give folks a chance.

…sometimes a movie will be withdrawn from distribution during a rights transition to a new distributor, but after things settle down, it will return. So, that makes it tricky to publish that title on a list, when people could get upset later that they rushed to do a purchase only find that the movie came back again.

That would be a ridiculous thing for someone to get upset about. Seems to me having options disappear without warning is a lot worse.

 

[MikeKobb]

Short notice is better than no notice. At least it would give folks a chance.

Well, by not a lot of notice, I meant something like, "...is withdrawn from sale immediately."

 

[Ven]

Well, by not a lot of notice, I meant something like, "...is withdrawn from sale immediately."

Ah. Yeah, that wouldn’t be very helpful.

 

[DieZwei]

Ah. Yeah, that wouldn’t be very helpful.

Well, with a very fast Internet connection, it might still help.