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Originally Posted by Ethan Riley
Everything about this thread is good news; why are you making it into bad news? The smaller houses, I have long maintained, are capable of turning out terrific season sets. Look at 3's Company--we got the whole series in two years.
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Okay, granted, Anchor Bay did a decent job there. But that's an independently owned show. And for every Three's Company there's an ALF. And AB started cutting corners on the later Roseanne episodes when Starz bought them out.
They are capable of doing good work. But it is a fact they do not have a wide pool of resources from which to draw. It could be good news if studios allow them access to decent quality masters, if they try to ensure uncut episodes across the board, all the things that separate a good release from a bad one. Although truly insulting releases are the in the minority, they are the ones that need to be held up as an example of what not to do. Arts America hasn't had any complaints from the stuff they released from Universal, so that's good.
I want to see the upside in this, I really do. But several years of TV show DVDs have made me jaded by the whole thing. Things could go either way. But with so much BS going on, and so many people willing to defend the BS, I just think it's premature to celebrate.
Believe me, if the work that is done is quality work, I'll be one of the first to celebrate.
