What does “RETAIL” mean?
This means the release is taken from the retail version – the one bought from stores, as opposed to a limited edtion or otherwise different version.
To elaborate, a retail release is one sold to the general public by shops – on the high street and online. It is a physical release such as a physical CD or DVD.*
Some examples of non-retail releases are:
- Incomplete releases, where some parts have been stripped. Common in DVD-R releases, where trailers, adverts, or alternative audio tracks, subs etc have been removed.
- Screeners, CAMs, etc – releases not meant for public consumption.
- Limited versions, of which only a small number were created or sold. For instance, a special edition BluRay disk.
* I don’t know if iTunes store and the like count as retail. Anyone care to comment, or have an example release nfo which answers this?
retail means buying a large quantity of goods and selling out a smaller quantity/pakage to the consumers/customers.
Anonymous
September 20, 2008
i want to know what retailing means?
Anonymous
September 21, 2008
tanks
Anonymous
October 3, 2008
The difference between a retail and the rest, is retail is the same product you can buy in a box or in a story, non-retail are products:
a) incomplete (such removing movies or any other irrelevant products).
b) screener or any low quality product.
c) telesync or any modified product.
d) rips.
e) limited version, such a Itunes version of a movie that miss the extras.
Jorge
December 3, 2008
can you give more information
sarah
March 3, 2009
I hope the updated post helps!
Scene Lingo
March 3, 2009
Thanks a lot, guy! That was a quite concise clear explanation and very useful.
Kike
June 18, 2009