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post #31 of 36
10/29/08 at 7:48am

Re: Burn On-Demand at amazon - Is this becoming bigger?

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But he's gay and Cyndi is a huge gay icon.
she's no Bea Arthur
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post #32 of 36
10/29/08 at 8:29am
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Re: Burn On-Demand at amazon - Is this becoming bigger?

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she's no Bea Arthur
I like Bea too. Just started watching "Maude" with my boyfriend. He had never seen it before and we were laughing so hard.
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post #33 of 36
10/29/08 at 5:25pm

Re: Burn On-Demand at amazon - Is this becoming bigger?

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Originally Posted by David Levine
True. But it is proving to have very little affect on sales. Take Charles in Charge for example. A nearly complete recast of the supporting characters after S1 (including adding Nicole Eggert), yet while S1 bombed, S2 bombed spectacularly - losing 65% of the audience that bought S1. And very few people buy a 2nd or 3rd season of a show if they didn't buy the previous ones.

Promotion would probably help, but advertising is VERY expensive. TV spots are out of the question for most shows, magazine ads can help, but readership is way down. Best Buy and Target circulars are both expensive AND risky. First, they cost a fortune to appear in them, and second, the retailers will order a high number of anything that is advertised - that can lead to BIG returns.

I wonder if Arts Aliiance will continue to release the remaining seasons of Charles in Charge if they are selling so badly. I don't own any seasons but it makes me curious as to Gimme A Break. I doubt they would pick it up from Universal if Charles is doing so poorly. I can only hope VEI continues to release Gimme A Break. That's one show I would buy any way I have to to get the complete series.
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post #34 of 36
10/29/08 at 7:29pm

Re: Burn On-Demand at amazon - Is this becoming bigger?

Gimme a Break is one of the shows you can get (all 6 seasons) from Netflix. I have no idea about the running times on them, though.

For actual physical media, I believe VEI is this show's only hope.
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post #35 of 36
10/30/08 at 7:44am

Re: Burn On-Demand at amazon - Is this becoming bigger?

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Originally Posted by HenryDuBrow
Then you are old, Robert. To a 15-year old kid, all us here, we might as well be pensioners.

The example I usually cite to support that is William Shatner. I'm 42, and to me and my brother who is a year younger he will always be Captain Kirk. To my 33 year old brother he's TJ Hooker. To my 28 year old brother he's the host of "Rescue 911". Then there's a whole other generation who think of either his Priceline commericals or "Boston Legal". The last group is unlikely to pick up "Star Trek" or "TJ Hooker" sets, for the most part.

As far as burn on demand it does make sense. I've always wanted to pick and choose certain episodes of long-running shows like "The Simpsons" and "Gunsmoke". It's pointless, to me at least, to have 20 seasons hanging around when you only want a few episodes from the later seasons.
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post #36 of 36
10/30/08 at 6:10pm

Re: Burn On-Demand at amazon - Is this becoming bigger?

I can't find any burn-on-demand at Amazon's web site and you can't burn the video-on-demand files to a disc. Where are they?

If this solves the problem of returns, then I'm all for it. I just want the content on a physical medium.
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