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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantW0m6at
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Looking at Elephants Dream with an asking price of € 35.00 (approx U$47) for a DVD (surprisingly the HD DVD is cheaper, and that's with the discounted DVD price) and a runtime of around ten and a half minutes (~U$7.76/min), I began to wonder

What's the most money you've paid per minute for something in your collection?

Now for me, it would have to be one of my shorter short films.  At a guess (I don't have purchase prices stored so will go by SRP):

Rubber Johnny: £11.99 (~U$23.83) for 6 mins = ~U$3.97/min
My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117: £6.99 (~U$13.90) for 12 mins = ~U$1.16/min

There are packages like the Wizard of Oz: Three Disc Collector's Edition that I chose over other packages for the same movie for the short films in general, but not purely for a single one.  Similarly, I grabbed KoRn: Deuce because I was particularly impressed with the remix video for Freak on a Leash, but not solely on that ground.
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I'm guessing it will be the Transformers G1 sets.. I've been crazy enough to actually hunt them down (even though they are now OOP) right before the release of the movie. So demand is high, price follow.

I won't calculate how much per minute it is, but I'm certain it's insane! 
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantW0m6at
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RR, I'm curious to know what the maths works out to on those, because being a series there's a lot of minutes to spread that cost out over.  Some of my longer short films (30mins) are nowhere near the price per minute of the two I listed, even if the price tag was a jaw-dropper.
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I'll check that out tonight, as I don't have the prices I paid for them at hand.
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My Top 10

OriginalTitle|Price/min|Currency
Sev Trek: Pus in Boots|0,731707317073171|AUD
Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas|0,589772727272727|CAD
P!NK: M!ssundaztood|0,561875|GBP
Staplerfahrer Klaus - Der erste Arbeitstag|0,554444444444445|EUR
Mind Meld:  Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime|0,532666666666667|CAD
Green Day: International Supervideos!|0,515833333333333|CAD
Andy Kaufman: The Midnight Special|0,471818181818182|CAD
Andy Kaufman: I'm From Hollywood|0,465833333333333|CAD
The Real Andy Kaufman|0,463392857142857|CAD
Friends: The Series Finale|0,459|CAD


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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantDan W
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I have over 4000 titles. I don't think I have time to even begin a search for something like this.
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For those of you who are using the CCViewer: I have uploaded the SQL query I used for my list to the online pool.


DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantRossRoy
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Well I'll be damned! Not at all what I expected! The per-minute cost is lower that I thought. Here goes:

Title -> Price/min

Animusic -> 0.65
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -> 0.59
Animusic 2 -> 0.58
Cinderella -> 0.56
Steel Angel Kurumi: Vol. 5: Encore -> 0.55
Forbidden Planet -> 0.54
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man -> 0.51
The Lion King -> 0.49
Romeo And Juliet: Lyon Opera Ballet - Sergei Prokofiev -> 0.47
The Rock -> 0.46

As for my Transformers set:

Season 1 -> 0.13
Season 2 part 1 -> 0.07
Season 2 part 2 -> 0.15
Season 3 part 1 -> 0.21
Season 3 part 2 and Season 4 -> ??? (don't know, still looking for that one)

Much lower than I thought.. And that's assuming the runtimes listed in DVDP are accurate.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorMithi
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1 - Superthruster - 1,31€ - 0,98USD
2 - Staplerfahrer Klaus - 0,83€ - 0,62USD
3 - Video Essentials - 0,83€ - 0,62USD
4 - Björk: All is Full of Love - 0,52€ - 0,39USD
5 - Celebrity Deathmatch: Greatest Hits - 0,50€ - 0,37USD
6 - Brazil: Criterion Collection - 0,41€ - 0,31USD

Funny, I thought Brazil would be #1

cya, Mithi
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantW0m6at
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Quoting Mithi:
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Funny, I thought Brazil would be #1

It's funny how strongly runtime affects the ratio; I think naturally we consider price more strongly than runtime when we ponder this mentally.

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (one of my most expensive purchases) is U$43.75 on YesAsia.  The maths:
U$43.75/92min = ~U$0.48/min

Something like Electric Dragon 80000V Japanese version that I had been considering prior to the US release, but was scared off by the price, even looks cheap compared to the short films:
U$44.49/55min = ~U$0.81/min

I won't let this stop me getting short films though.  I love the freedom of expression they allow, and I tend to watch them multiple times more than their feature-length counterparts.
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Title -> Rand per Min, R Converted in $, £, €

Top 5 Least Expensive
1. Law & Order: The Second Year -> R 0.188, $ 0.0267, £ 0.0132, € 0.0198
2. Law & Order: The First Year -> R 0.1891, $ 0.02681, £ 0.01332, € 0.01993
3. Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India -> R 0.1895, $ 0.02686, £ 0.01335, € 0.01998
4. Andromeda -> R 0.26, $ 0.037, £ 0.018, € 0.027
5. Chancer: The Complete First Series -> R 0.27, $ 0.038, £ 0.019, € 0.028

Top 5 Expensive
1. IL Divo: Unbreak My Heart: The Video -> R 24.00, $ 3.40, £ 1.71, € 2.52
2. Un Chant d'amour -> R 9.61, $ 1.36, £ 0.67, € 1.01
3. I Stand Alone -> R 6.74, $ 0.95, £ 0.47, € 0.71
4. Eros Ramazzotti: Stilelibero -> R 4.99, $ 0.70, £ 0.35, € 0.52
5. Marianne Faithfull: Dreaming My Dreams -> R 4.79, $ 0.67, £ 0.33, € 0.50
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Early edition of "George Lucas In Love".
$20.27 ($19.95 + tax)/9 minutes = $2.52 a minute. If my math is correct, since like Jethro Bodine I really only learned the basic tutemes & gozintas.

Though it got better when I purchased the Media Trip Edition with three more shorts.

(And the first DVD was bought of a private website before I knew better. But it is so funny it was worth it!)

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Rendezvous - Flat-Out Across Paris (Claude Lelouch) $3.71 / min (eBay) worth every penny
George Lucas in Love $1.66 / min
Sayrui: Memoirs Box (Japan R2) $.46 / min
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Cold Fever (R2)  $0.39 / min
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Video Essentials  $1.00 / min
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantW0m6at
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I recently bought Air's album Le Voyage dans La Lune on vinyl. It cost me £30.06 including shipping. That equates to roughly U$48.9446 (calculated on XE.com).

The album includes the short film of the same title on DVD. Said short runs ~15mins.

48.9446/15 = ~U$3.26/min

Admittedly this is cheating a bit, as I can pick up the CD for ~$20.
Meanwhile, there's also a Limited Edition (which spins at 45rpm), that retails for £200

£200 = ~U$325.630
325.630/15 = ~U$21.71/min

As I said, it's cheating. Realistically, I bought at these prices because I wanted the album on vinyl, and the DVD itself can be obtained in much cheaper packages.

I haven't bought it, but the pre-order of Iron Sky Collector's Edition is €300 (~U$397.84)
397.84/93 = ~U$4.28/min
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