I've actually been surprised that the hacked up version didn't make it onto DVD after it was added to Amazon and Netflix streaming a year or two back.Gary OS said:Okay, you win. Feel free to have the last word if you'd like. I'm happy the show is coming out even if it's not going to have every song. It's all good in that sense.
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Ha! Ha!TV_Fan said:I think I better buy a few more jackets. Something surely has frozen over....Batman & The Wonder Years complete series in the same year? Dang, sure is cold in here.
I agree, they have released all the very popular shows that are guaranteed sellers and are now moving on to the remaining popular shows that have not been released due to various issues such as high music costs.I hate to put it this way, but it seems like all the major, easy shows have been released, and now the companies are looking for any kind of payday and "scraping the bottom of the barrel" so to speak
I think the budget releases (i.e. Sony's deal with Mill Creek) are due to the current economic environment we are in. Sony made their money off the initial releases of the series they licensed to Mill Creek, whatever they make from this deal is icing on the cake for them. I wonder if we will see other studios follow Sony and license stuff out to budget outfits like Mill Creek?! MGM has licensed out content to TGG Direct and Paramount has so far licensed out 1 series to Mill Creek...or with the decline of DVD sales and physical media, we are now entering the specialized market era (along with a fair amount of budget releases for casual fans and those who are slow adapters to streaming etc.)
Totally makes sense, Gord. Thanks for sharing that!Gord Lacey said:There's an interesting dynamic at play when it comes to the music-laden shows being released by third parties, and it's something that drastically affects the licensing of music...
When a major studio looks to clear music for a release, they look to license the song worldwide, in perpetuity (forever), across all media. This is so they don't have to go back years later and re-license the song again in the future. Things are different with a sub-license, since the company (Time Life in this case), is only licensing the song for a specific region (North America), for a set number of years (the length of their licensing contract), for specific media (in this case DVD). This results in a much lower price for licensing the song, and allow the project to become viable. It also means we won't magically see a version on Netflix that includes the original music because it's coming out on DVD.
So, the best thing for a music-heavy show is to be licensed to a company that only operates in one region, and only for physical media. Makes sense?
Hence my comment that only very popular music laden series have a shot at being released with music intact due to their large fan base.The studios involved know that this show is popular enough that they can most likely make a profit despite having to spend money on licensing the music. If it was almost any other unreleased show with this much music, there's no chance that it would be happening.