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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   Frank Frank sent the following on 10/25/2009 7:03 AM:   
   > aemeijers wrote:   
   >> Frank Frank wrote:   
   >>> aemeijers wrote:   
   >>>> Frank Frank wrote:   
   >>>>> Jack Bohn wrote:   
   >>>>>> Frank Frank wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> SFTV_troy wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> Has Paramount put this show back in the vault?  It appears they   
   >>>>>>>> have,   
   >>>>>>>> and released TNG as a replacement.   
   >>>>>>> Can they do that? Stop someone airing Star Trek AFTER having sold   
   >>>>>>> the syndication rights to them?   
   >>>>>> Well, it's not so much "sold" as "rented."  The rights to air are   
   >>>>>> probably licensed for some time frame, and then the syndicator   
   >>>>>> offers a new license (or not) and the stations pick it up again   
   >>>>>> (or not).   
   >>>>> Why would they not, though? If you have a product to sell and there   
   >>>>> is demand. It would be as if Wal-Mart decided to close its shops   
   >>>>> from October until next March or something like that -- what   
   >>>>> possible kind of business sense could that make?   
   >>>> Ask Disney. They do the same thing with most of their 'classic'   
   >>>> animated films. Last thing they want is for people to get bored with   
   >>>> the product. (or in the case of videos, to be competing with their   
   >>>> own product selling for a buck at garage sales.) About a seven-year   
   >>>> cycle, which is the right interval for a fresh generation of their   
   >>>> target demographic of kids, as well as for young parents to get past   
   >>>> their snotty late-teenage and college years, and be nostalgic about   
   >>>> the films they saw 7 or 14 years ago. TV cycle isn't that long, of   
   >>>> course. There isn't enough product out there for that.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Even the digital remastering and sweetened SFX for TOS were right out   
   >>>> of the Disney playbook. Last go-around for most of the 'name' Disney   
   >>>> Classics, they trumpeted how they were 'restored' from original masters.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Old rule of show biz- always leave them wanting more.   
   >>> But it's artificial scarcity. It's evil. If someone wants it now they   
   >>> should be able to have it now if they have the money to cover the   
   >>> costs (parts + labour) for providing one more marginal unit.   
   >> Shrug. If they don't wanna sell, you have no right to buy.   
   >   
   > No thanks to their monopoly. If one business isn't willing to   
   > manufacture and sell wibbles, I should have the option of buying wibbles   
   > from another business, really.   
      
   Why?   
      
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   Jim Gysin   
   Waukesha, WI   
      
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