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jdslater 07-15-04 12:23 PM

Just a question to sracer, what if the "sampler disc" of your tv show that you were willing to buy didn't have the particular episode you wanted to see?
I suppose you are right in this "all-or-nothing" mentality, but it could be said that it depends on the tv show. Something like 24, Alias and Profiler have a common story thread running through out the season to tie up a story thread. But like I said in my post CSI part 1 & 2 is a very big strain on my wallet. Also I like to think I buy certain tv shows just based on the fact they have the complete series. I bought dead like me because I missed the second half of the season, now if that was available in 2 parts I probably would not have bought it.

Peep 07-15-04 12:54 PM


Originally posted by moocher
What I don't get about this is that this "solution" assumes that there is a problem to begin with. From all I read, the studios are cleaning up on TV sets. Yes there are a few sets that don't sell as well but isn't that to be expected? Not everything put on a disk is going to sell like hotcakes.

Production costs? The content has already been produced for TV so how much does it really cost to transfer the ready made content to disk? Not much I would think. Yes, extras will cost some but I would not think it is prohibitive.

No, this to me all smacks of greed. How can we make even more money off this booming business of TV on DVD? Why else would they be trying to fix something that isn't broken? Greed, that's why.

Obtaining the rights to the music used in some TV series can be cost-prohibative.

Philip Reuben 07-15-04 01:55 PM


Originally posted by sracer
[B]I never said that it was an analogy... I said that it is the same mentality.
Then replace "bad analogy" with "bad representation of the mentality", and my point still stands. I maintain that wanting a complete TV season is only an "all or nothing" mentality in that same sense that wanting a complete movie is. Wanting every episode of a series is not in any way equivalent to wanting lots of bonus features with a movie.


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