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Tee hee :lol:

Seriously, Coronatin Street does it well by sticking to popular story arcs. The problem with most American soaps is their inability to give a beginning, middle and end to most stories. They used to do it well. And Corrie copied that old formula.

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A good place to start with DVDs, would be soaps with younger fan bases like DAYS and PSNS. I think if they did some sort of collection of the key episodes from Marlena's possession, it would FLY off the shelves. Even non-soap fans would get it, because like Dark Shadows it would have the supernatural elements.

Look at how those books make it to the NY Best Sellers list. I definitely think there is a market. ATWT aired promos for that book every single day and even wrote it into the storylines. It was a big enough hit that they released a second edition of it. Now GL has one out as well and OLTL had The Killing Club (another hit). If fans will buy books, they'll buy DVDs.

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QUOTE (Chris B @ Nov 14 2007, 01:13 AM)
A good place to start with DVDs, would be soaps with younger fan bases like DAYS and PSNS. I think if they did some sort of collection of the key episodes from Marlena's possession, it would FLY off the shelves. Even non-soap fans would get it, because like Dark Shadows it would have the supernatural elements.

Look at how those books make it to the NY Best Sellers list. I definitely think there is a market. ATWT aired promos for that book every single day and even wrote it into the storylines. It was a big enough hit that they released a second edition of it. Now GL has one out as well and OLTL had The Killing Club (another hit). If fans will buy books, they'll buy DVDs.

I disagree. Call it *vintage* and anyone interested in soaps will buy it. Young people are showing their disinterest in daytime by not watching it.

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Well they have released something like the first 36 eps of Dark Shadows, i have been tempting to buy it. Coronation have also been on dvd for awhile, but there are to few eps to get what it where about from that day. Emmerdale has just starting to release their eps on dvd, they just released their first twentysix eps that where ever made, and i think more will come.!

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IMO, the Port Charles arcs were ideally set up for DVD distribution. At most, there were around 65 episodes per book. A set for each arc shouldn't be too cost-prohibitive. I certainly would buy them...it would give me a chance to get rid of all those dusty VHS tapes I have stored away. It would be hard to assemble DVDs for soaps that have been on the air for more than forty years. Unless they did specialize...weddings, couples, specific storylines...they would have to divide them up...maybe four sets per year. I've also heard that some soaps...like GH pre-Luke and Laura...don't have all the old episodes any longer. Didn't they often record over old tape to save money?

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I vote no, no, no on storyline compilations.

I think it would be fine if a fan made them and sold them bootleg, but another thing altogether if a network did it. The editing would be so off, with the fading of the tag shots and all that. Not to mention with every episode of the compilation used, the writers would have to paid for all of that. And that would be one expensive DVD that the production companies couldn't make any money from.

I'd rather have them pick 24 of the best episodes from a storyline if they couldn't release an affordable box-set of every storyline.

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