Stephen Heath
Stunt Coordinator
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2003
- Messages
- 91
Some of us have limited funds and can't buy every TV set that we want that is coming out right now, there's too darn many of them, and we still have to pay the bills.
I haven't bought Night Court S1 yet, although it might be under the tree this year since it is on my list of things I'd like. If not, I will get it eventually when some of the other things I've been buying have run their course.
I have to be honest though, reading this thread where people are telling others that they should purchase crap they don't want to show support for stuff they do want just doesn't make sense to me. First of all, either adequate demand for season sets is there or not, if it's not, it won't matter a hill of beans if you buy the best of, they still won't make season sets. They're doing it to make money. If the demand IS there, then they will do it anyway. The demand might be out there for both, just because we wouldn't buy a best of doesn't mean there aren't consumers out there who would rather have that than season sets. If you buy the best ofs, what you are doing is convincing them there is a demand for those, and creating the ideal circumstances for every publisher to hit you with similar double dip "threats".
Maybe it will just take some time. Maybe, like MTM, it will eventually sell enough for them to make season 2, it's just not selling like hotcakes justifying releasing a season every few months. When they run out of other TV releases, they'll come back to it.
That said, I do think that if we, as a society, are really at the point where we think "it's just $10" to buy something that we don't want, that as one poster mentioned he would never even OPEN, in the hopes of getting the priviledge of paying for something we do want at full price, then our enjoyable hobby has become a compulsive disorder, and it's time for support groups.
I haven't bought Night Court S1 yet, although it might be under the tree this year since it is on my list of things I'd like. If not, I will get it eventually when some of the other things I've been buying have run their course.
I have to be honest though, reading this thread where people are telling others that they should purchase crap they don't want to show support for stuff they do want just doesn't make sense to me. First of all, either adequate demand for season sets is there or not, if it's not, it won't matter a hill of beans if you buy the best of, they still won't make season sets. They're doing it to make money. If the demand IS there, then they will do it anyway. The demand might be out there for both, just because we wouldn't buy a best of doesn't mean there aren't consumers out there who would rather have that than season sets. If you buy the best ofs, what you are doing is convincing them there is a demand for those, and creating the ideal circumstances for every publisher to hit you with similar double dip "threats".
Maybe it will just take some time. Maybe, like MTM, it will eventually sell enough for them to make season 2, it's just not selling like hotcakes justifying releasing a season every few months. When they run out of other TV releases, they'll come back to it.
That said, I do think that if we, as a society, are really at the point where we think "it's just $10" to buy something that we don't want, that as one poster mentioned he would never even OPEN, in the hopes of getting the priviledge of paying for something we do want at full price, then our enjoyable hobby has become a compulsive disorder, and it's time for support groups.