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post #31 of 43
1/6/08 at 11:38pm

Re: #1 Factor in buying TV DVD's?

Mainly, I like the show and don't want to have to just hope it'll come back to TV and be uncut to boot. Still, there have been times when I've wanted a show badly, but then it starts airing on TV and that takes the wind out of my sails. For example, when Sanford and Son first came out on DVD, it had been off TV Land for a while. They started airing it again, and even though the DVDs would mean I could watch it any time I wanted in mostly unedited condition, I still was less inclined to buy it.
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post #32 of 43
3/25/09 at 9:48pm

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Is for me not having every cable channel when I was young. When DVD's came out and had a DVD player and saw TVshows on DVD out that had shows I heard about or saw on other people's tv's or whatnot.

With only basic cable I missed out on many good series. Now with these tv shows I can pick up as an entire series boxset. or singles if hearing the boxsets are not made good
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post #33 of 43
3/26/09 at 3:30am

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One thing that influences my purchases is the subject matter of the series in question. For example, "Hawaii Five-O" has been a long-standing classic for more than 40 years (though it only ran 12) because of its rich writing, Hawaiian scenery, opening titles, music, and the general format of the series-- a special investigative unit solving crimes in the 50th state. Now, sure, I wasn't born then, but that hasn't stopped me (for one) from purchasing all of the currently released seasons and seeing and appreciating for myself why "Five-O" was the classic that it was.

CBS DVD has also done right by the series on a technical level, with great transfers, great packaging of the releases, and great menus, among other things.
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post #34 of 43
3/26/09 at 1:00pm

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For me, TV on DVD is a chance to see classic shows that were before my time and that are not rerun (or are not widely rerun). My personal preference is for detective/spy shows from the 60s and 70s and if a show falls in that genre I'll definitely check it out. What I'll usually do is try a show through Netflix and decide if I just want to rent it or take the plunge and buy it. The shows I've discovered and collected on DVD (Mission: Impossible, Wild Wild West, Rockford Files, just to name a few) have been great - better than today's genre offerings.

A close second is nostalgia - I bought Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. because I remembered watching it with my whole family on Friday nights when I was 10...and was very happy to see it held up.
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post #35 of 43
3/26/09 at 1:55pm

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I'd buy Brisco if it weren't still priced too high. Same with YIJC.
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post #36 of 43
3/26/09 at 3:44pm

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Mark, there've been some great sales on "Brisco" in the past year or so. I picked it up in Feb 2008 when Deep Discount briefly offered it for less than $25. In the past month or so, I've picked up several copies of it for friends -- Costco has had it for $16.99.
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post #37 of 43
3/26/09 at 3:52pm

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More and more, I'm considering how likely it is the series release will see completion.
So many abandoned series left on the side of the road...

-g
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post #38 of 43
3/26/09 at 4:13pm

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Originally Posted by Mary_P
Mark, there've been some great sales on "Brisco" in the past year or so. I picked it up in Feb 2008 when Deep Discount briefly offered it for less than $25. In the past month or so, I've picked up several copies of it for friends -- Costco has had it for $16.99.

I picked up my copy for around $35...not bad for 8 discs and all the episodes. Heck, Paramount charges that for HALF of most of their shows.
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post #39 of 43
3/26/09 at 6:50pm

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Another reason, besides that which I aforementioned on this post, is that for those programs I truly enjoy, they help take me back to a particular time/era which are favorites and/or memorable in my life.

Watching particular episodes from a certain time can remind me of how fine life was for me at the time. And it does not have to be from that immediate time, either: the program can also have aired years after the show's run originally ended and I caught the episode when I was somewhere special in my life when my television just so happened to be on. Case-in-point: Room 222, whose first season was released this past Tuesday by Shout! Prior to the DVD set release, I had a tape of some episodes I recorded from TV Land back in 1999 as I was entering into a wonderful period of my life which continues to this day. Watching those taped episodes in anticipation of the since-arrived DVD set helped me to remember how great things were for me in that fine 1999 summer as I seriously began building my home theater to where it now is today!!!!!!!!

That is one reason I offer in conjunction to the original post.

Gee, it seems as if that ten-years-ago period was only yesterday...
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post #40 of 43
3/26/09 at 9:21pm

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shows that I enjoyed seeing when there wasn't vcr's to record your shows you miss cause of school, bedtime etc.......

whether or not the seasons are in tact almost all come out.
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post #41 of 43
3/26/09 at 11:31pm

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I buy stuff like Family Gut, Futurama, etc. My mom would love it if the "Soap Opera's" were available ..... are they on DVD? I don't think so because it would literally be 1000's of DVD's.
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post #42 of 43
3/27/09 at 5:03am

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Nostalgia
Price
and lately, if the dvd producer has folded. (RIP BCI)

I'd like more stuff from Nick. Like Salute your Shorts and You can't do that on Television.

I'd also like more completeness. I know, duh!
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post #43 of 43
3/27/09 at 7:11am

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Originally Posted by Tina_H_V
Another reason, besides that which I aforementioned on this post, is that for those programs I truly enjoy, they help take me back to a particular time/era which are favorites and/or memorable in my life.
This is probably the primary reason I buy TV DVDs, and (by extension) because I enjoy sharing those times with my children. I really do admire and appreciate period pieces. I'd estimate that around 75-80% of the DVDs I own are about shows (and films) from the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. The most notable exception is the entire Trek canon, but even one of those (TOS) has (thankfully) elements of the 1960s that are difficult to dismiss.

Side note: I really am looking forward to watching Room 222 and Peyton Place again.
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