I think a lot of why companies are losing money on DVDs is they simply don't advertise them. Okay, Nickelodeon releases Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Mystery Files of Shelby Woo on DVD-on-Demand because when they put other shows on DVD they lose money on them. Well WHERE was the advertisement for it? I never saw any advertisement saying 'Now the first season (or even the whole series) of Hey Dude! on DVD for $10-$20', the only way I found it was by pure chance browsing the new DVDs at Wal-Mart, if you just PUT a product out and don't bother telling anybody it's coming, nobody's going to look for it and very few people are going to buy it. We used to see commercials on TV advertising when movies came out on VHS and DVD, we still see commercials when movies released 3 months ago get put out on DVD and Blu-Ray. But when you put a 20+ year old show on DVD, if you want sales to be good, you have to give the public fair warning it's coming, commercials, announcements online where people are actually going to see them, even putting an ad in the morning paper or in the mail that goes to every house as 'Resident' like when fast food places mail out coupons for people to use, they don't care who they send it to, they mail them out to everybody so they stand the best chance of getting that business. If Disney's losing money then I think it's because they simply don't know how to run their business anymore, oh they're good for spitting out Hanna Montana clones to rake in $100M, but they've also got older programs in their possession that the public would like far more IF they knew they were coming out, but if you don't tell anybody, they're not going to come looking for it with an open wallet.
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NinToaster
8 years ago
it's because stores don't want to carry them. Why do you think so many companies like Nickelodeon and Warner are doing the DVD-R "Manufactured on demand" route?
It's so they can make a copy only when the customer wants it.
And that Hey dude complete series was advertised... on social media. It's a Walmart exclusive. Shout factory even "Sponsored" their posts about it on facebook
Also, Money doesn't always talk. Sometimes companies hate each other. Licensing copyrighted Material can go deeper than money. The 1998 movie "A night at the Roxbury" is a perfect example of that. a song used in the movie, a cover of "Careless whisper" from George Michael by tamia, her album version was used in the movie. That album was released by Qwest records, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. Atlantic's parent Company is Warner Bros.
But when it came to releasing the soundtrack, Paramount pictures used DreamWorks records, who's parent company is Universal and Warner wouldn't allow the song on the soundtrack since a rival company was releasing it. Tamia ended up re-recording the cover from scratch for the soundtrack since her contract didn't have anything against working with another company
the same thing could happen with all these clips on Muppet Babies. Some of the companies that own the clips may not want to license them to Disney.
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