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Impressions · 03-31-2004, 08:51 AM

The following shows you'll be able to pick from; for this time and/or once again from the last poll:

Action
Dark Skies
Diff'rent Strokes
The Facts Of Life
Fantasy Island
The Flying Nun
Grosse Pointe
Hart To Hart
I Dream of Jeannie
The Naked Truth
Ned and Stacey
One Day At a Time
Pasaden
Police Story
The Single Guy
The Net
The Street
Maude
T.J. Hooker
Mike Hammer
Street Time
Get A Life
Going To California
Strong Medicine

Note: In this poll; you can only vote for one show from the list of options, in exchange from 5 in the last poll.

http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/tv/tvondvdpoll/

Mister Show · 08-29-2007, 07:09 PM

Three years later and alot of those are on dvd now. Of course, no Get A Life!

I would like to see the Naked Truth released if only for the season Chris Elliott appeared.

hch · 09-18-2008, 11:30 AM

I called the Sony number and this is what they told me:

I asked about the releases that they do. They told me that it does take a long time for a season to make its sales back to them. That's why you see continued releases a year or two years down the road. They also said that if one season didn't sell well, why put a lot of production into the remaining seasons?

Sadly, this show and others like "The Facts of Life" and "All in the Family" do not have any future release at this time. So what we have to do is to get more people to buy the seasons that are already out for them to break even or make sales good enough to release more seasons.

This is why they release current shows on DVD because they are sure to sell and people who missed the season on TV will be sure to buy them. This pushes promotion for these shows on the networks that air them. But for past or classic shows, they will not invest in them until they see some decent returns for ths stuff that is already out there. They claim that their classic shows do NOT sell as well as the current ones so they don't bother in continued releases. I said "so basically crap like Seinfeld and all that can get re-released like crazy and stuff", and they said "Yes because it's a popular title and people still buy the releases. We're not going to keep putting out seasons on what we THINK might make money because that would constitute a LOSS for us".

So SONY is actually a REACTIVE company with their classic stuff and highly PROACTIVE with their current stuff. They have to sell more than a few thousand copies on the seasons (50,000 to be exact) of a show they do have in order to release more seasons. So people, BUY MORE CLASSIC SHOWS AND LESS CURRENT SHOWS. That'll teach them.

And it will show them that we do care as much about the classic shows as we do the current shows.

robyrob · 09-18-2008, 01:22 PM

i am seriously never buying any current series again, with the exception of Smallville, Dexter, Weeds, Heroes and Psych.

that may seem like too many exceptions, but when you compare it to the size of my collection its not.

LovePro. · 01-03-2009, 03:01 AM

I really want "the naked truth" on dvd, has ANYONE ever heard anything about this i dont think it will ever be released

03-31-2004, 08:51 AM	#1
Impressions She died the way she lived Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: May 08, 2002 Posts: 4,640	Columbia Tri-Star/Sony TV-on-DVD Poll Returns! The following shows you'll be able to pick from; for this time and/or once again from the last poll: Action Dark Skies Diff'rent Strokes The Facts Of Life Fantasy Island The Flying Nun Grosse Pointe Hart To Hart I Dream of Jeannie The Naked Truth Ned and Stacey One Day At a Time Pasaden Police Story The Single Guy The Net The Street Maude T.J. Hooker Mike Hammer Street Time Get A Life Going To California Strong Medicine Note: In this poll; you can only vote for one show from the list of options, in exchange from 5 in the last poll. http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/tv/tvondvdpoll/
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09-18-2008, 11:30 AM	#3
hch Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 07, 2001 Location: Montross, VA 22520 Posts: 983	I called the Sony number and this is what they told me: I asked about the releases that they do. They told me that it does take a long time for a season to make its sales back to them. That's why you see continued releases a year or two years down the road. They also said that if one season didn't sell well, why put a lot of production into the remaining seasons? Sadly, this show and others like "The Facts of Life" and "All in the Family" do not have any future release at this time. So what we have to do is to get more people to buy the seasons that are already out for them to break even or make sales good enough to release more seasons. This is why they release current shows on DVD because they are sure to sell and people who missed the season on TV will be sure to buy them. This pushes promotion for these shows on the networks that air them. But for past or classic shows, they will not invest in them until they see some decent returns for ths stuff that is already out there. They claim that their classic shows do NOT sell as well as the current ones so they don't bother in continued releases. I said "so basically crap like Seinfeld and all that can get re-released like crazy and stuff", and they said "Yes because it's a popular title and people still buy the releases. We're not going to keep putting out seasons on what we THINK might make money because that would constitute a LOSS for us". So SONY is actually a REACTIVE company with their classic stuff and highly PROACTIVE with their current stuff. They have to sell more than a few thousand copies on the seasons (50,000 to be exact) of a show they do have in order to release more seasons. So people, BUY MORE CLASSIC SHOWS AND LESS CURRENT SHOWS. That'll teach them. And it will show them that we do care as much about the classic shows as we do the current shows.
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08-29-2007, 07:09 PM	#2
Mister Show Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 05, 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 117	Three years later and alot of those are on dvd now. Of course, no Get A Life! I would like to see the Naked Truth released if only for the season Chris Elliott appeared.

01-03-2009, 03:01 AM	#5
LovePro. Member Forum Cub Join Date: Jan 03, 2009 Location: Cali. Posts: 2	I really want "the naked truth" on dvd, has ANYONE ever heard anything about this i dont think it will ever be released