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why will they not release it on DVD


How difficult is it to re-issue a movie on DVD. They do not have to re shoot it. The rights belong to three different companies. But they are companies right? They like to make money don’t they?
They managed to do it for Shogun, Rich Man Poor Man, The Thorn Birds, Roots they all managed to transfer those onto dvd it’s a £1000 transfer re-master on to two or three DVDs. So what’s so hard? You will make a profit! If you only sell 300 you would still make a profit. If you can’t be bothered to do that. Then you can make them iso download files and charge people to download it to make their own DVDs
No distribution costs at all. I simply do not get it. Then these companies get all shirty when people start making their own and doing it themselves. Without the rights..

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I agree, I can't find it on DVD, they finally released East of Eden with Jane Seymour, I have tried to buy Kane & Able on on Ioffer but somehow I can't get the Ioffer to email me the confirmation so I could buy it, yes they could be making alot of money the corp's instead of the lousy movies on the shelves.

If I find one I will buy it, I want to see it again, its been years and they never show it. Darn no wonder their are bootleggers out there.

One thing I had read somewhere was it about the music rights with some movies, that don't make any sense either.

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Yeah agreed! Im also waiting and searching for this on DVD..

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For what it's worth I got K&A on DVD years ago from some website, I think it was raretvondvd.com but I could be wrong. So long as there's demand, there will be supply.

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what zone would that be? thanx anyway!

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I'd have to find it, and it's buried within stacks of CD's and DVD's. Anyway, just get a multi-region player, most are like that nowadays.

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I picked a copy up the other day, on region free DVD.
I won't say any more than that, but a simple Google should yield you great results!!


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This was a fantastic show. I've been trying to get hold of a DVD copy and just found this link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kane-Abel-Complete-Mini-DVD/dp/B003WP9CYA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1280150416&sr=1-1

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You can pre-order it from play.com
It is due for release 18 Oct 2010

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