WKRP in Cincinnati on DVD

[Joe Siegler]

:woot:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/12/11/wkrp-coming-to-dvd-seriously/

[Scream]

Heh, this was a good show at the time. Not sure how it would stand up now, but this would probably be worth it for the Thanksgiving turkey episode alone. :)

[Usurper]

At last. Now I can watch the end credits with subtitles on. I'm dying to know if there are actual words that I'm not hearing right or incoherent gibberish.

Edit: crap, sometime in the past year it became possible to find the answer on the intarweb. Gibberish it is.

[shiranui]

I remember watching that YEARS ago...

But WKRP< KTIT K-TIT

[Joe Siegler]

http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2007/03/wkrp-dvd-not-ok.html

Wow. Someone has a lot of time on their hands.

[Nessus]

http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2007/03/wkrp-dvd-not-ok.html

Wow. Someone has a lot of time on their hands.

Man that's pretty sad that you can't even play a song in a TV show without a hassle these days. Just how exactly do these record companies think they are protecting thier property by making it so expensive to play one of thier songs that people are forced to opt out?

Sometimes I think the whole music industry has gotten so ridiculous that it can't possibly sustain itself any longer.

[pjohnsonjr]

Bastardization of TV properties for DVD Release...

I honestly see no problem with leaving the music in because that's a series from '78-'82. You figure most of those artists made royalties off of permissions back then to justify not really giving a damn about any re-release of episodes...BUT no, painful reminder that when there's a gray area and place for discrepencies that some the ambulance chaser will appear out of the woodworks representing some claim...

[Scotty]

This could get messy. Hopefully other DVD releases won't suffer the same fate.

As DVDs didn't exist back then, and VCRs were in their infancy, royalties were probably based on broadcast: If a particular episode got aired 3 times, the royalties were paid 3 times.

For a DVD release, it could be argued that the royalties should only be paid once for each sale, but it could also be argued that the average Joe will watch the DVD 10 times, and that the royalties should be paid 10 times per sale.

Ugh. :doh:

The best solution would be to negotiate with the unions/agents/etc to work this out for old properties, with the penalty being "If you get greedy, we won't release it on DVD, and you won't get paid squat". Unfortunately nobody would get squat in that case, which makes the option of releasing a hacked-up version more attractive.

As such, fans would have to boycott any such releases to send the message that this is unacceptable.

[pjohnsonjr]

someone will buy it for every one person who doesn't in protest, thus often negating a bastardized dvd release.

[Joe Siegler]

Agreed. I have the first two seasons of Alf on DVD, and they used not the original versions, but syndicated edits. Alf fans got pretty bent out of shape over it. I myself remember several of the episodes from original broadcast, and one in particular dropped my single favorite line from said episode.

Not much you can do about it, though. :(