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It reminds of a joke about an inventor who developed a new kind of widget. FRIEND: Nice widget. What will the retail price be? INVENTOR: $100,000. FRIEND: Seriously? That's a lot to charge for a widget. INVENTOR: Yes, but I only have to sell one.

It isn't necessarily the fault of the studios. Sometimes the holder of the rights makes outrageous demands to clear the rights. There is an obscure biker film, The Savage Seven, which opens with a Cream tune playing. When it was put out on VHS whoever owned the rights demanded so much for...

That's because there was no home video when those shows were produced, so the contracts limited the rights to television broadcasts since that was the only way the shows could be seen at that time.

We've had stalled movie series, as well. For example, the Michael Shayne private eye series starring Lloyd Nolan consists of six Fox films. Fox released four of them in a nice set, one as a stand-alone DVD, and one as a MOD Fox Cinema Archives release. The sixth, Time to Kill, has never seen the...

I hope this means that Paramount is wising up to the fact that most of us who collect TV shows want the entire series. We have in the past been frustrated by single season releases being stalled, or else after all seasons have been released they release a complete series box set which costs less...