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[Mark Edward Heuck]

Streaming counts the same as TV distribution?

 

I find that hard to believe. Streaming is on demand. Like PPV. TV is programmed.

 

Yes, but streaming is essentially a "broadcast" just like TV and PPV or VOD are, hence the classification. 

[MattPriceTime]

"broadcast" is a much better word that i honestly should have used. But either way point still stands the older agreements that need clearance for DVD/Blu don't plague the option to stream. Making it a perfect "in the mean time" thing (and on top of that the idea a lot of us think it's also a motive to help raise up more money towards fixing those problems)

[Ronald Epstein]

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[Keith Cobby]

Some great Robert Taylor titles here, long overdue. But where is Rogue Cop?

[Professor Echo]

I would love to see the demographics on MODs from all studios. I would guess many older males are eating up those westerns as they are consistently being released. For a genre that has supposedly been on life support since the late 70's, it's amazing how attractive it must still be for a certain group of buyers and obviously successful for the studios.

[Randy Korstick]

I keep thinking about this and find that ironic as well. The western is the best represented for TV on DVD and probably the best represented genre for movies on DVD so obviously they sell. Yet the western is suppossed to be bad for TV and movie business since the late 70's. Maybe the studios need to re-evaluate this stance/view and maybe its that many of the recent western failures were just not good movies instead of the genre being dead.

 

I would love to see the demographics on MODs from all studios. I would guess many older males are eating up those westerns as they are consistently being released. For a genre that has supposedly been on life support since the late 70's, it's amazing how attractive it must still be for a certain group of buyers and obviously successful for the studios.

[Mark-P]

Anybody else having problems with their wishlist on WAC? I probably had 100 titles on my wishlist, but now there are only 20 titles on it and I can't add anything else. How am I supposed to remember all the titles I wanted? It will be a lot of work to go through their entire catalog to try and recreate my list.

[kingfish]

hoping for target zero and the naked and the dead.

[kingfish]

what war movies are left for warner to release.

[bujaki]

I'm experiencing the same situation as you, Mark-P. I don't use Facebook, Twitter, etc., so maybe someone who does can contact WAC and alert them. It does affect their business.