9th October 2019, 07:18 AM
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 | Cult Veteran Good Trader | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Here there and everywhere | |
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Originally Posted by Michael Brooke  Vinyl has been reinvented as an expensive niche item, and I’m all but certain that the same will happen with Blu-ray, if it’s to survive at all.
The limited edition model has been surprisingly effective at persuading people to pay more realistic prices nearer the release date (something that’s becoming increasingly essential if certain labels are to remain in business at all), but margins are insanely tight right now, and narrowing all the time.
Fortunately, an industry friend’s prediction that 2018 would see at least one high-profile British boutique label going under didn’t happen, and it thankfully hasn’t happened in 2019 yet either - although the fact that Signal One nearly went under as a direct result of the HMV near-collapse (and, although they’re still in business, they haven’t released anything for nearly a year) shows how desperately vulnerable small labels  are to unexpected shocks. | Signal one not released anything in a year, sounds like another label with yellow cases who seem to be very similar these days.   |