XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   Jack Bohn wrote:   
   > Frank Frank wrote:   
   >   
   >> Jack Bohn wrote:   
   >>> It's a bit complicated by the fact that they have two ways to   
   >>> sell the product: as a series syndicated to stations, and as DVD   
   >>> or Blu-Ray sets to stores.  Now to reveal I have no idea what I'm   
   >>> talking about, especially when it comes to economics, but it   
   >>> seems they might want not merely to make money off it, but to   
   >>> make the most money possible off it.  They might figure the   
   >>> increase in store sales when fans can't watch it on TV may   
   >>> outweigh the money from syndication.   
   >> Gambling that you'll make more money by ticking off your customers than   
   >> otherwise is generally a bad idea in any industry.   
   >   
   > I'm a bit genre-bound; do you have any examples in mind?  Ticking   
   > off your customers other than by producing bad stories, that is.   
   > (See Star Trek: Enterprise.)  Didn't Lucas keep Star Wars off   
   > videotape for the longest time?  Even that whole "Greedo shoots   
   > first" thing for the last rerelease to theaters hasn't seemed to   
   > deflate his empire.   
   >   
   >> Have none of the idiots in charge of these things noticed that when   
   >> songs get radio airplay, movies and shows get airtime, etc., sales of   
   >> recordings of the same items *increase*? Well, the RIAA noticed, and   
   >> kept getting caught paying radio stations to play particular songs.   
   >> Apparently they're smarter than Paramount. Which says a lot about   
   >> Paramount when you realize that the RIAA is in fact as dumb as a load of   
   >> bricks.   
   >   
   > The show is the best advertisement for its DVD.  I've expressed   
   > that sentiment often enough to wonder if it was just me.   
      
   Its not just you.  TV is still the only way most people will ever learn   
   of the existence of a show to want to buy it on DVD.   
      
      
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