Tuesday 11 May 2004, by jjjay :

Its great to find someone making an effort to overcome the rampant incompetence afoot in the entertainment world. I agree whole heartedly with the premise and am sure that the hundreds of families out there who feel as mine does would put their money down! Thanks Scott

Tuesday 11 May 2004, by Anonymous :

I like your idea. They could promote online and distribute trailers of the shows over the internet. You know we’d all see them and pass on the links. I know I’d buy a series on DVD, especially if it was from Whedon. Lesser known producers may face stronger challenges. The audience would definitely need some known attraction to shell out the dough that first time.

Tuesday 11 May 2004, by Boo :

This could work(but it won’t happen) Say a DVD is put out everyweek or so at $9.99 sale price,wholesale would be about $5.00 Angel season sets sell about 400,000 but it is still on TV with about 3.5 million weekly so say about 1.5 million buy this weekly thats $7,500,000 wholesale take away budget,marketing,price of making each DVD,package so say half which is $3,750,000 profit maybe plus sale overseas like to Sky one network,AU, etc.I wonder why no one has thought of this.

Wednesday 12 May 2004, by Joe :

Hell I’m up for it. Damn — I would love Angel to come back...any shape or form.

Thursday 13 May 2004, by Paul Tuck :

I like this idea since I’m a UK SciFi fan without Sky and have to rely on Terristal TV to see Sci-Fi which is infrequent and either on at later hours (Babylon 5 at midnight Sunday anyone?) or put in an unsuitable timeslot and then edited to buggery (Babylon5 at 10:30 in the morning or Buffy Season 6 at 6:45pm) I’m now turning to DVD sets more and more. I think SciFi fans would pay for a DVD set if the pilot got their interest and even more so if it came from someone well respected in the SciFi community Joss Whedon is the obvious one that comes to mind.

Tuesday 1 June 2004, by Anonymous :

You are absolutely correct in thinking that a direct to DVD series might work. I have been trying to do this several times. I ran the company that produced all the Police Chases shows and we looked at marketing new shows that way (legal problems prevented this). You need to look at it like a 3-legged stool. One leg is budget, one is consumer cost (subscription) and one is advertising. One all three legs are balanced, you have a viable show. However, getting the three to balance is the trick. I know we can control budget. How mush would you be willing to pay for a weekly show directly sent to you? $10, $20, $5? Then the balance needs to be made up by advertising. That is the hardest part is you do not know how many viewers you will have and how much advertisers are willing to pay for this niche market. You may have to find an angel (no pun) to cover the losses until you can prove your sales and demographics, but I think it is doable.

These comments are an anwser to this article : Direct-To-DVD Series Impossible ? (whedon mention)

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