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Re: At last, Donna Reed Show to be released on DVD!!
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Originally Posted by Joe Lugoff
Gary OS will tell us all to support the release because it's all we'll ever get ... and some of us will chime in with, "If you support cut prints, of course that's all you'll ever get! Why should they bother with the extra time and expense, etc. etc. etc."
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God bless you too, Joe.
Gary "I think I'll wait a bit and get more solid confirmation of an actual release before I get into 'defense' mode against the likes of my worthy adversary, Joe - just kidding buddy" O.
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Re: At last, Donna Reed Show to be released on DVD!!
Facts are facts. Telecine is expensive. Sony probably has the negatives and fine grains and won't allow indies access to them. That anything they had a hand in or owned in any way was released at all without them is a miracle in and of itself.
Like FKB, my purchase is hinging on running times.
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Re: At last, Donna Reed Show to be released on DVD!!
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Originally Posted by Elena S
And yes, I will buy it regardless. If I can't get steak, I'll take hamburger.
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Atta girl, Elena. Go get 'em.
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Re: At last, Donna Reed Show to be released on DVD!!
One question though- does the actual control of the show lie with the Reed estate or Sony? Donna Reed and her then-husband Tony Owen produced the show, it was released through Columbia's Screen Gems TV division. Just because a studio releases a TV show, it doesn't necessarily own the DVD rights. Gilligan's Island is a fine example- it was made thru United Artists TV, but the half of the actual ownership went to the procuction company, Gladysya Productions, which was owned by Phil Silvers. the other half wound up in the big Turner buyout of the MGM/UA library, which was then swallowed by Warner Bros. So, now the show is owned by Silvers' daughters and Time Warner. MPI has the video rights to Dark Shadows, but for syndication, it's now the property of CBS/Paramount, which acquired the old Worldvision catalog, which in turn started as ABC Films, but was forced to be spunoff from the network by a court-ordered antitrust action (this is how Viacom was spun off from CBS, but now they're together again).
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Re: At last, Donna Reed Show to be released on DVD!!
I'd much prefer uncut and complete seasons but like others I'll take what I can get. I love this show.
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Re: At last, Donna Reed Show to be released on DVD!!
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Originally Posted by Mark Zimmer
I'd much prefer uncut and complete seasons but like others I'll take what I can get. I love this show.
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I agree, Mark.
I fully understand the reasoning that, especially in view of the present economy, people want to be more discerning with their purchases and they might take cut versus uncut episodes into consideration. But I look at another factor and place it into my personal buying equation. I don't think a smaller independent should be held to the same standard as the larger companies that hold the rights to a series. For instance, it's hard for me to hold SHOUT to the same standard as I would SONY when it comes to a show like "FKB". A lot of times these smaller companies are working with families or estates that don't have access to the same clean prints that the larger studios would have access to. And I just can't see penalizing the smaller companies, working on much tighter budgets, simply because they can't deliver the same quality prints that a CBS/Paramount can deliver. Just doesn't work for me.
Now if Sony were releasing this series and using cut prints then I'd absolutely boycott because they presumably would have access to the best prints and there'd be no reason for them not to deliver a solid, uncut set. But I just can't see penalizing the smaller companies for working with what they have access to - which is often only what estates or families have in their personal vaults, not what the majors have in their vaults. It's just not a level playing field, and I'm not holding the little guys to the same standard. But that's just my opinion.
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Re: At last, Donna Reed Show to be released on DVD!!
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Originally Posted by Hank Dearborn
If the show was so important to you people that you'll take it in any form, then why didn't you tape them or get someone to tape them for you from Nick at Nite? They ran the show complete for at least 5 years. Why would it be so important to have in now in 2008 in any form but it wasn't important to have in 1988?
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Come on, buddy. Let's not go through this song and dance again. There are numerous reasons a person may not have been able to tape the show in the 80's. I shared my personal history from that time period on the FKB thread (and I've shared the same info on other threads) detailing why I couldn't tape things then.
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Re: At last, Donna Reed Show to be released on DVD!!
I've gotten burned by good faith before (don't need to reiterate the examples). Nonetheless, even if the economy was better, there's still the fact that the retail market for DVDs is down, and the closure of stores like Tower Records probably has a huge impact on catalog titles like this one.
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