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post #31 of 100
2/22/07 at 3:42pm

Re: NYPD BLUE SEASON 5

It's funny; I remember when none of the other studios were doing much with TV-on-DVD, and Fox was getting all kinds of accolades for the wonderful job they were doing with full season sets of The X-Files...still, I guess a lot of water has flowed under a lot of bridges since then.
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post #32 of 100
3/19/07 at 2:31pm

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I for one would fault Fox if they have stopped bringing out the series on DVD. We didn't see it on TV and bought Seasons 1 to 4 on DVD in order to watch the entire ONGOING story. Just to bring out part of the series is abusing the trust of the buyers. We for one are VERY EAGER to purchase season 5 and sincerely hope Fox will be bringing it out soon!!!!!!!!!! I agree with the other comment poster who said that stopping with the cliffhanger at the end of season 4 is 'criminal'. Please, Fox, are you listening????
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post #33 of 100
3/19/07 at 3:38pm

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I think with "lesser selling" shows, companies should just do what Sony does with All In The Family, which performs "okay" but is definately not a blockbuster seller by any stretch... ONE SEASON A YEAR. I can understand why companies wouldn't wanna be releasing a new set every 3-4 months for a show that isn't doing great, but I think every show (unless there's too much music clearance, and I doubt that many shows have that issue) turns enough of a profit around that the companies should be able to adhere to one season a year. It may not be fast enough for the fans, but at least it keeps coming.

Why abandon a show outright instead of just limiting lesser selling shows to one season a year?
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post #34 of 100
3/19/07 at 4:10pm

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Why abandon a show outright instead of just limiting lesser selling shows to one season a year?

Because if you're losing money on a show it doesn't make any more sense to lose that money every 12 months than it does to lose that money every 6 months. If Sony weren't making money on All in the Family you can rest assured that they would have dropped it like a live grenade. BTW, if they're only releasing a set once a year, how do you know they haven't dropped it? Whichever set was released last would could be the final one and nobody would know it for at least a year. If AitF is a slow but steady and profitable seller for Sony they may be stretching its release out because they are giving more priority to newer releases (there is a limit to production capacity and DVD manpower, after all.) I seriously doubt it is to reduce a flood of red ink to an annual trickle.

Regards,

Joe
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post #35 of 100
3/19/07 at 4:34pm

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Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino
Because if you're losing money on a show it doesn't make any more sense to lose that money every 12 months than it does to lose that money every 6 months. If Sony weren't making money on All in the Family you can rest assured that they would have dropped it like a live grenade. BTW, if they're only releasing a set once a year, how do you know they haven't dropped it? Whichever set was released last would could be the final one and nobody would know it for at least a year. If AitF is a slow but steady and profitable seller for Sony they may be stretching its release out because they are giving more priority to newer releases (there is a limit to production capacity and DVD manpower, after all.) I seriously doubt it is to reduce a flood of red ink to an annual trickle.

Regards,

Joe

outside of a show with a ton of musical clearence (like I suppose I can see Murphy Brown's abandonment), are shows losing money or just not making a big enough profit? There's a vast difference between a show that Paramount or Fox or Sony or Warner are actually losing $$$ on and something that is doing "ok" but getting the shaft because at the end of the day, it's sales pale compared to what Seinfeld or Friends makes for them. IMO, shows like Who's The Boss, NYPD Blue, Bob Newhart, Growing Pains, MTM, whatever else, would be doing just fine if the companies just release it on a "one season a year" basis. Plus, the more seasons that are out for a show, the more people buy them. I know a lot of people who didn't start collecting Roseanne and The Golden Girls until they saw that over half of the shows run was out on store shelves, so that is another thing that can boost these shows that might be sitting on shelves with one season out. Instead of repackaging Friends, Buffy, X-Files and whatever other shows are long finished for the umpteenth time, the companies should concentrate on these unfinished shows at a slower pace so they can finish.
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post #36 of 100
3/20/07 at 2:00am

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Everytime I see this thread pop up, I'm hoping it's good news. I guess I'll keep hoping. Y'know, it's kind of funny that Homicide: Life on the Street managed to get the whole series released and those sets were more expensive. I would have thought the two shows would have similar audiences.

NYPD Blue broke a lot of new network ground and it deserves to treated a little better.
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post #37 of 100
3/20/07 at 5:37am

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I don't collect NYPD Blue, but I share the same frustrations with Hill Street Blues.

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Fox has continuously started to release TV series and then abandoned them. It sure is funny that other studios Keep releasing further seasons of shows they have started to release. I can't believe that "Hill Street Blues" , "ST. Elsewhere" , and "NYPD BLue", all three shows which are constantly asked about, and which aren't found in any "bargain bins" aren't doing that well . Now Fox is going to start releasing "WKRP In Cincinnati". Is this series going to be another one started and then abandoned because of poor sales. Come on Fox, lets continue to release the shows you already started that are being asked for! Maybe if Fox would advertise on tv , something to the effect ;now available on DVD ...... list the series that are out they would get a lot more respones to their releases. I wouldn't have know about these releases if I didn't belong to the Home Theater Forum and also went to TVShows on dvd ,or the Digital Bits web site !

What kind of marketing is done to promote these box sets anyhow? Are there any magazine or TV ads that I am not aware of? How about some ads in theatres to to along with the trailers before an audience views the featured film. Especially for shows that people may have enjoyed years ago but forgot the reasons why.
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post #38 of 100
3/20/07 at 5:40pm

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Originally Posted by Ric Easton
Everytime I see this thread pop up, I'm hoping it's good news. I guess I'll keep hoping. Y'know, it's kind of funny that Homicide: Life on the Street managed to get the whole series released and those sets were more expensive. I would have thought the two shows would have similar audiences.

NYPD Blue broke a lot of new network ground and it deserves to treated a little better.

I feel this way about Hill Street Blues. Odd mention of Homicide:Life on the Street. I actually bought this as it was released at a higher price point and then rebought when the complete series was released.

Please FOX, rethink your decision about these "quality" shows.
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post #39 of 100
5/22/07 at 4:36pm

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hey....new to the forum, but just as maligned about the lack of Seasons 5-12 of NYPD Blue on DVD.
i've been trying desperately to find any information related to this and stumbled accross a general inquiries email address for 20th Cent. Fox Distribution.

FoxNow@Fox.com

I was thinking, or hoping, we could bombard the address with requests for the release of the other seasons of the best show ever to grace a television screen!

Any help would be awesome!!
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post #40 of 100
5/22/07 at 6:17pm

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Originally Posted by cpkeegan
I was thinking, or hoping, we could bombard the address with requests for the release of the other seasons of the best show ever to grace a television screen!

Bombing a studeo with emails wont get us more NYPD Blue. Email takes very little effort on the part of the writer to send, and thus are generally discounted by studeo. If anything it's more likely to aggrevate them.

What matters to studeos is sales figures, and NYPD Blue has had not one but two different chances. I think the most important thing you can do towards getting more seasons is to buy the existing seasons and encourage your friends who haven't bought them to do that.
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post #41 of 100
5/23/07 at 5:20am

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They may eventually show up on Itunes which recently added Season 3 of Hill Street Blues that Fox won't release. I bought them and am enjoying them on my Apple TV.
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post #42 of 100
5/27/07 at 1:16am

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Hey,

I would not lose hope on the Season 5 just yet. Few weeks ago I noticed that it had a release date, 13th of July 2007 on an European webstore cdon.com, until yesterday but now it's gone. Meaning that it has either been postponed or canceled. It would also be weird to release it here in Europe but not in the US. The Season 5 can also be found from Amazon, but not from the European Amazon. So I guess that the release is still being considered.
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post #43 of 100
7/4/07 at 9:09am

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I love Deadwood and John From Cincinnati and want to get into NYPD Blue, but if they aren't going to finish the series I am more cautious about buying... They are well priced at Amazon...
Any word on the status? This is almost as bad as Pete and Pete S3.
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post #44 of 100
9/27/07 at 2:34pm

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I am a little annoyed that ER is about to have the eighth season released and NYPD Blue is still stuck in limbo after four. I know these shows have little to do with each other except that they came out at the same time, but they are both serialized dramas. I was a fan of both because of the character arcs. I want more Blue. I'm done whining now, carry on.
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post #45 of 100
9/27/07 at 3:45pm

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There are, as you said, very little in common between them. ER is a show still on the air, so it does benefit a bit from the current shows boost, and they are from different studeos and comparing Warner to Fox is a little like comparing apples to oranges.
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post #46 of 100
9/30/07 at 7:12pm

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why do not send letters and e-mail to fox in order to create a reaction
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post #47 of 100
10/1/07 at 4:55am

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Anyone have an email for Fox? The one I had no longer works.
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post #48 of 100
1/3/08 at 12:32pm

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I'm jumping in kind of late here, but it doesn't surprise me that sales of the seasons via DVD were abandoned. The first four were horribly set up with the two sided discs and lack of meaningful features. I'm not sure how much they cost originally, but at 6-8 discs they weren't cheap and probably not worth it. I DVR the episodes on TNT Tuesday nights. Great quality, too. If you don't have a DVR/VCR or aren't up at 3 in the morning, it's not a legitimate avenue but I've been loving it. The ones I've missed I Netflix but that's not going to work coming up here as season 5 is about to start on TNT. Since that's what this subject is about, however, and if you have TNT - start syncing to record because it's the only way to see it again right now.
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post #49 of 100
1/3/08 at 11:22pm

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Yes, sometimes making your own box sets is your only choice to have an entire season. However, a professionally released box set (even without extras) is still the best way to go. No having to edit out commercials or wait till a ep that you missed comes back around. And if you're taping shows from rerun syndie then you're getting edited versions.

Perhaps by the time that NYPD Blue came out on DVD the show was simply overexposed having ended a very long run and becoming quite prominent in reruns. Too much of a good thing ?
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post #50 of 100
1/6/08 at 9:32pm

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Another important factor in favor of professional sets is of course picture and sound quality. I have DVD-R's of all the remaining seasons that I recorded off air, but the quality is nowhere near what a pro box would be. I still refuse to give up hope. Maybe I'm crazy.
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post #51 of 100
1/11/08 at 9:14pm

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TNT runs the reruns in High Def if you have an HDTV, and the quality is identical if not better than that of the DVDs.

The major drawbacks are commercials as previously stated and edited out swears which can lead to a short night of dialog for Andy some episodes The butt shots remain, however - haha.

Also, at three episodes at a time, you don't get to choose the option of binging on an entire season that would on DVD - and with all the nail biting cliffhangers three episodes often isn't enough for me at a time, I dunno how people watched it weekly!
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post #52 of 100
1/15/08 at 2:35pm

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Unfortunately, I have some very bad news for everyone. Several days ago, I emailed 20th Century Fox on the status of future sets and was just informed this evening that Fox Home Video is not distributing NYPD Blue and that there is no information on who retains the rights to the series.

If anyone has any information on who does, feel free to post it.
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post #53 of 100
1/15/08 at 3:23pm

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Originally Posted by Renegaade
TNT runs the reruns in High Def if you have an HDTV, and the quality is identical if not better than that of the DVDs.

The major drawbacks are commercials as previously stated and edited out swears which can lead to a short night of dialog for Andy some episodes The butt shots remain, however - haha.

Also, at three episodes at a time, you don't get to choose the option of binging on an entire season that would on DVD - and with all the nail biting cliffhangers three episodes often isn't enough for me at a time, I dunno how people watched it weekly!

From the schedule, it seems to only be 2 episodes at a time, or am I missing something? In any case, looking forward to recording tonight's fifth season premiere!
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post #54 of 100
1/15/08 at 8:35pm

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Let's hope that somebody has acquired the series for release as Fox no longer has the rights for the series.
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post #55 of 100
1/15/08 at 10:03pm

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Originally Posted by Mark Talmadge
Let's hope that somebody has acquired the series for release as Fox no longer has the rights for the series.


Really ? I though sony owned the rights now, Hmmm weird any ideas who controls NYPD blue now ?
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post #56 of 100
1/20/08 at 9:46am

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TVShowsonDVD.com has a section on their website that allows you to vote for shows that you would like to see released on DVD.

I know what you're gonna say....."That doesn't mean that anyone is ever going to release the shows I vote for!"

And to that, I say: Calm down. I just found the site and thought you might be interested in the information. Maybe, by some dumb luck, someone might actually pay attention to those requests. Again, it's worth a shot.
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post #57 of 100
1/20/08 at 11:28am

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Originally Posted by cpkeegan
TVShowsonDVD.com has a section on their website that allows you to vote for shows that you would like to see released on DVD.

I know what you're gonna say....."That doesn't mean that anyone is ever going to release the shows I vote for!"

And to that, I say: Calm down. I just found the site and thought you might be interested in the information. Maybe, by some dumb luck, someone might actually pay attention to those requests. Again, it's worth a shot.

I honest think companies like fox/sony could give a rat arse what the fans on tvshowson dvd.com think or want, but what is does do put you on a list of fans interested in the shows so when there new news about the show (ie nypd blue) they send you email alerts. Thats about it which is still useful consisdering the pitiful advertising budgets most tv dvd releases now get. Atleast when industry insiders release advanced info fans are alerted to what new series or new season releases are coming out so they can support the show with sales.
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post #58 of 100
2/5/08 at 5:01pm

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Originally Posted by Sam Favate
From the schedule, it seems to only be 2 episodes at a time, or am I missing something? In any case, looking forward to recording tonight's fifth season premiere!

They reeled it back to 2 the very Tuesday after my original post. Ridiculous. I jinxed it. Apparently people are craving "Without a Trace", which is an awful show.

In fact, they're not showing ANY NYPD Blues tonight (2/5), although they pick back up where they started next week. I hope this isn't a reoccuring theme, alternating weeks, but why would they only do it once. The last time they did it they skipped 3 episodes, so at least (according to tnt.com) that's not happening this time.
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post #59 of 100
2/5/08 at 5:07pm

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Why are we discussing shows broadcasting on television? This topic is about the DVD releases ... does this mean you have information pertaining to the release date for Season 5, Renegade?
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post #60 of 100
2/6/08 at 4:56am

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Originally Posted by Mark Talmadge
Why are we discussing shows broadcasting on television? This topic is about the DVD releases ... does this mean you have information pertaining to the release date for Season 5, Renegade?

Since the DVD releases stopped with Season 4 (and on a cliffhanger, no less), we've been discussing TNT's broadcast of season 5, for those who want to catch up.

Turner & Hooch last night! Geeez!
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