Hank, if you have better inside info that the majority of us here then that's great. I just wish you wouldn't be so condescending about it, because many of us (myself included) don't have the access you apparently do and have no idea what's really going into these dvd decisions. If what you say is true then I agree that the blame needs to be laid squarely at the feet of Shout for just being lazy. But I was under the impression that at times companies were only given access to certain prints, and they had to go with what they were given by the parent company. The way you are putting it, Shout has access to everything and is just making the conscious choice to be cheap about this and go with a more cleaned up set of episodes, even though they clearly know those episodes are syndicated. And further, you are telling us that they very well could get hold of the uncut episodes if they wanted to, and clean them up (which you say isn't expensive), but they refuse not to because they are being cheap. If all of that is true, and this is just nickels and dimes type stuff, then I'm not happy with Shout. I just don't have access to all this info so I don't know for sure what is what.
Gary "I appreciate being given inside info because I want to be informed, but I don't like being talked down to simply because I don't have access to that same type of info - I don't think that's fair or courteous" O.
Gary "I appreciate being given inside info because I want to be informed, but I don't like being talked down to simply because I don't have access to that same type of info - I don't think that's fair or courteous" O.