» Seinfeld rumered to be released on DVD in April 2002 !!!
This is the least plausible thing ever. I want Seinfeld on DVD as much as the next person, but the show is making too much in syndication for Castle Rock/Columbia-TriStar to jeopardize that. Why do you think Fox has been dragging their feet with The Simpsons sets and released Futurama only in R2? Money! That is the only reason.
And this site reported that on February 2. They also have a poll asking how much would you pay for all the Seinfeld episodes on DVD.
There is simply no weight that should be given to this rumor, since NO DVD of the caliber of a Seinfeld box set is released after being first announced in just weeks.
And the show won't come to DVD anytime soon, anyway. I thought you guys would know better than to put ANY faith into a site like this.
If you want, I can start a page that says "NewsRadio coming to DVD next week!" and that won't make it any more true.
Keep in mind how many seasons there are of Friends.
This probably makes a huge difference too, since there
are so many episodes that can be out there, and it will
take a lot longer to get all the seasons of Friends
on DVD than it would to get all the seasonn of Seinfeld.
"Friends" will run a total of nine seasons when it concludes after 2002-03. That means roughly 220 episodes by the time they're done. "Seinfeld" lasted nine seasons and had a total of 179 episodes. That's not a HUGE difference, and since they used the same number of seasons, they should take the same amount of time to hit shelves. There's no reason to believe "Seinfeld" would come to DVD any more quickly - since they'll have the same number of seasons - and the existence of season boxes makes the NUMBER of episodes irrelevant - they'd work the same way...