Jack Nicholson the Wary Media Mogul

I tried to rent a DVD of Ironweed with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep and Tom Waits – Kennedy did the screenplay – yet there is nothing out there in range of my budget but a used VHS tape of Ironweed for $12. It’s certainly worth it. But what is it with Jack Nicholson? I could find only four or five examples of his career on DVD, such as a stint on Saturday Night Live. He let Ironweed go to VHS, but he avoids DVD, while Meryl Streep has a list of forty or more DVDs available. I may be reading the lists wrong, or did a dumb search, but it looks like Nicholson boycotted the DVD format. He’s weird enough and wealthy enough to not care. What is going on here?