I can tell you from experience that one reason is it's not worth it, because margins are small enough that once you pay the studio their license you're not making enough money to justify the cost in time and everything else. The fewer units you expect to sell, the less you can amortize fixed...
Well then maybe they should just release best of collections and be done with it. Oh wait, then everyone would complain because it's not season sets. I guess studios just shouldn't release any TV shows because it's clearly too painful for consumers to deal with the resulting agony.
OK, I've worked for a major and now I work for an indie (albeit in Canada).
The market is completely different now, and so is the video industry. Everyone's thinking is completely different, and that includes consumers. Ten years ago we were all renting videotapes and buying laserdisks and...