Neil Brock
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It's a little tougher to raise awareness when every time I pointed out what Shout was doing on this board re: "Ironside" at the time their deception took place (regarding what they allegedly held the rights to) and jerking around customers with false information (one poster here noted how he had talked to Shout and how they were promising S5 and S6 in 2011) the broad reaction at this place I was getting was a giant yawn and a "don't be so hard on Shout they're our only hope" attitude.
Anyone remember the "Shout Select" program? That was supposed to be their big solution to the matter of titles that they knew weren't big sellers but which they knew there was a core fanbase for. They used that to give us only S3 and S4 of "Ironside", S2 of "Room 222" and the final season of "The Bill Cosby Show" (a title that was stalled on the order of three to four years) and never used it again after 2010 even though it would have been the ideal solution for a number of their other stalled titles.
Love them or hate them, who else is in their league when it comes to 50s, 60s and 70s shows? Timeless? gone. Infinity? gone. TGG Direct? gone. Smore? as good as gone, haven't put out anything new in many years. MPI is still around and spits out a title every so often, as does CBS. Fox? Sony? Universal? MGM? Warner Home Video? All have long given up. So besides Shout, the only company doing anything is Warner Archive, which only involves Warner, MGM (pre-1984) and Lorimar shows. Why you adamantly refuse to pick up the remaining seasons of Ironside from Australia, I have no idea. You can buy a cheap, off-brand DVD player from Crapmart and find a hack for the region code in 30 seconds and then you will have your beloved show. They used the same 48 minute edited one-inch syndication masters as Shout did, which is all Universal provided to anyone.