Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt

It's a business decision by FOX. Either replace the music, sell the DVDs for $30 a pop and make a profit, or keep the music, have to sell the DVDs for $150 a pop and not make a profit (since only die-hard fans are going to fork over that kind of coin).

In cases like this, however, I do wish studios would give consumers an option and release TWO versions - the cheap, edited one and the expensive non-edited one - but again, it's an issue of the studio not making a profit after they pay for all the music rights.

So blame the music industry...don't blame (or don't put all the blame, at least) FOX.

Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet

I've heard this argument before, but it doesn't explain how a small company like Shout! can release a show like Freaks and Geeks with the original music and turn a profit.

I bet if Shout! or a similar company was given the rights to produce a WKRP DVD set, they'd do a much better job that what Fox is releasing.

Originally Posted by Upper pylon 3

How do you know that Shout Factory made a profit on Freaks & Geeks? It was on one season show so no subsequent releases would have been made anyway. It may not have sold enough to cover the costs of those music rights. Unless this information has been made public, which it could well have been, we really don't know.

Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet

I've heard this argument before, but it doesn't explain how a small company like Shout! can release a show like Freaks and Geeks with the original music

Originally Posted by Feathers McGraw

I agree, the "but it would cost $150!" argument just doesn't wash.

And obviously, this half assed set is going to cost them huge numbers of sales. How many of us are skipping it now? I am. And I'm far from alone on this.

Originally Posted by Lecithin

I remember hearing similar reasons for why the SCTV sets would always cost so much more than a normal TV show release, due to the rights to the songs by the musical guests on the show, so I resigned myself to it and bought the first volume for around $53. Imagine my disappointment when later on, I could find the sets for $20 or much less (not even including the occasional BlockBusterVideo mispricing serendipity).

Originally Posted by Upper pylon 3

How do you know that Shout Factory made a profit on Freaks & Geeks? It was on one season show so no subsequent releases would have been made anyway. It may not have sold enough to cover the costs of those music rights. Unless this information has been made public, which it could well have been, we really don't know.

Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt

That's because no one was buying them at $53 and the retailers couldn't send them back...so they had to sell them at a loss (or at wholesale) to get them off the shelves.

Originally Posted by Logic 7

Has anyone got or does anyone know how this is or whether it is the syndicated versions?
http://www.allmyfavoriteshows.com/mo...incinnati.html

Originally Posted by Logic 7

or this
http://www.sell.com/22J354

Originally Posted by Logic 7

or this
http://www.sell.com/22J354

Originally Posted by lotsofdvds

There's a weird dialogue change in the episode where everyone thinks Les is gay. While he's out on the ledge, Herb runs to the window and shouts "It's okay if you're a gay!"

In the original version his line is "It's okay if you're a homo!"

Originally Posted by lotsofdvds

I should know about this one soon.

Originally Posted by BrentLumkin

This is the sort of thing that drives people to buy/download bootlegs who might not otherwise do such as that...

Originally Posted by BrentLumkin

:lol:

I hope someone will upload some clips of the DVD release sometime soon, just so I can see with my own eyes how the changes play out.