[quote name='typical guy']To me, spending $20 (let alone 25) for a movie is not "a good price" or "a good deal". I come to these forums to get low prices. They shouldn't be selling these things for more than 15 bucks IMO. It isn't that much more expensive to produce than DVD. We all know that if we just wait until Black Friday this movie's going to be like 9.99 at Best Buy anyway.[/QUOTE]
What is or is not "a good price" or a "good deal" is going to be almost completely relative from one person to the next. You don't think that $20 a good price for a movie, and for the most part I agree with you (there are some exceptions for me, but this isn't one of them), but clearly there are some people who consider it worthwhile.
Regardless, we don't create the pricing here, we only report on it and help each other find the best deals we can. If you're not interested, just move on. Telling us that you don't think it's a good deal isn't really useful to anybody, unless you've got an actual better one to share.
Also, not everyone wants to wait until Black Friday for everything, given that it's still almost eight months away.
As far as blu-ray vs. DVD prices go, this is unfortunately what usually happens with new media formats. The same thing happened when records gave way to CDs -- new release records were around $8, while the same titles on CD were around $14, even though CDs were actually cheaper to produce. Unfortunately, at least until the bottom dropped out on the music market, the price of records crept upward to meet the price of CDs, rather than the other way around. The same thing is probably going to happen with the movie market.