Well, I have very little time to write any posts and don’t have the time yet to provide more of the higher quality posts that I’m wanting to do at some point in time. But there was something that I noted for quite some time that is quite a problem and issue.
You see, I don’t know why this would be, but sometimes, a TV show is released to DVD in an edited way. You can tell this when a show says the complete season versus simply the season. There will even be part of the case that says the shows may be edited beyond their original network broadcast. It is already bad enough that syndication always edits down the episodes of shows. But to have the official DVD releases do this makes it seem like they are ripping you off.
Why do they do this? I don’t know. In most cases, you’d have to wonder if some of this has to do with the fact that they would want to release the compete seasons in the future and they are biding people over until that happens. I noticed once that seasons of The Bill Cosby Show weren’t complete. Good luck getting a complete season release to be bought by people nowadays.
But there could be good reasons for this. Music and song copyrights may prevent certain parts of the show from being released. We may be better off with an incomplete release since that would mean that we get something instead of nothing at all. Would you prefer an incomplete version of a show if the only alternative was no show at all? I wouldn’t think so.
It is hard to tell if they are ripping you off by making you buy something that is incomplete with such a small notice given that such a thing is even going on at all. But at least you are getting something in the end. I’d have to say that something is better than nothing, but it is still hard to feel good about this since you know that it is not a complete set, but there is nothing you can do about it while still expecting to get something from the show that you want to own.
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