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Yeah, like I said, they’re not great. But if it’s a sitcom with eight episodes per disc and something where only one is watched a day, it’s not so bad - I just leave the one I’m watching on top of the case.

Those cases aren’t wonderful from an ease of access perspective (terrible for cherry picking one-off episodes) but at least they condense a whole lot of discs into a small amount of shelf space. I’ve yet to have a disc damaged by one of them but they are clearly better suited for people who...

At this point, in 2019, I don’t see the need to strike new prints - that expense can be saved by scanning the original negatives, which certainly makes more sense in terms of asset protection. Scan the original negatives and you have a new archival asset that can be leveraged and repurposed in...

That matches my experiences as well. A big problem for something like I Love Lucy, which basically killed CBS’s classic Blu-ray plans - Season 1 on Blu-ray had a retail price of about $120 (and was priced at about $80 on store shelves in its first week), and at the same time, you could buy the...

If I Love Lucy wasn’t financially viable for release on Blu-ray (and sadly, it wasn’t), I’m not sure that there’s going to be a market for any vintage sitcom on Blu-ray going forward. There isn’t even really a viable market for modern sitcoms on Blu-ray. I don’t like it but I think that’s the...