Max Headroom FINALLY Coming to DVD!!!
POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Saturday, October 2, 2010 21:31
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I have it in my hot little hands now!
All 14 episodes!
14... hmmm. A magic number, eh?
The lenticular cover is creeping out Sonisall- he's in for a wild ride (he's never seen it).
The laughing Chrisisall
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YEAH, BABY!! I'm so jealous! I'm gonna have to wait until X-mas.
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Okay, we watched the first ep...
Content-wise, it was better than in my memory- hugely entertaining. Only drawback- like Star Trek TNG (produced the same year), it was shot on film & transferred to video for editing, FX & final airing, SO, the video quality is just like TNG on DVD, that is, not quite perfect. But for a show like Max Headroom, it *might* actually work FOR it better than a pristine film-like quality that one might expect from a newly mastered DVD.
Sonisall characterized the show as "odd."
The laughing Chrisisall
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Max Headroom... finally.
*sigh*
Now I'm just waiting for Man From Atlantis, and my retro DVD collection will be complete!
I used to love Bionic Woman, but I NEED that to stay in my sweet memory ONLY.
If I see UFO for a decent price... probably.
Six Mill... the time has passed for my interest in that. Leisure suits...UGHHHHH!
No... one last one to complete my core interests. And Max Headroom was/is one of them.
The laughing Chrisisall
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For the record Fox released WKRP in Cincinnati --- Season 1 on DVD a few years back
Unfortunately it doesn't look promising for the rest of the seasons to get released
The main problem the fans these days have is that there were music rights issues and all those songs we know and love that were used in the show are replaced by other music
okay there are more issue according to this blog http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2007/03/wkrp-dvd-not-ok.html including syndication episodes being used and other cuts *sigh*
I knew there was music replacements but I really wanted the episodes in some form, not to mention, I bought the title cheaply ....
As far as Max Headroom goes, I will purchase it as soon as I have cash to do so
Just as an aside http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/06/mad_hot_ballroo.html contains the info on how the makers of a documentary had to go about clearing music for their film
An example of how much music licensing costs are made by the interviewee in the stayfreemagazine article:
Quote:
Stay Free!: Did you license the songs for a particular time period, or did you get them for perpetuity? Answer: We first cleared music for two years for festival use, and then went back and negotiated for worldwide commercial use in all media, for perpetuity. It was extremely expensive. For most films, music licensing is 1 to 10 percent of the production budget; ours came in at 45 percent: $140,000.
and here is another example:
Stay Free!: How much did it cost for the average song?
Sewell: It depends on how many entities are attached to it. Our typical total cost for a classic was about $15,000-20,000, split between publisher and master rights. With the Rocky theme, the publishers didn't want to overexpose the song. That was the issue with Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack" as well.
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And heres a bit about potential fair use and how licensing rears its ugly head
'again this is from the article I quoted from before
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Stay Free!: Were there any scenes you had to cut out of the film because of copyright?
Sewell: When we were down shooting the boys playing foosball, Ronnie yelled out, "Everybody dance now!" Just when I think we've finished the film, someone points out that we have to clear that because it's a "visual vocal cue." So I went back to the publishers, and the first publisher, Spirit, says they'll throw it in with the other things we've cleared if Warner Chappell throws it in. But Warner Chappell said, "Look, we've cut you some nice deals, we can't give this to you." They said this three-second bit would cost $5,000. And since they had Most Favored Nation status it would have raised the cost on similar uses, like the Rocky ring-tone. So I went back to lawyer and said we should keep it in because this should be a poster child for fair use. But he didn't recommend taking on the music industry. Those corporations have too much money for us to play Norma Rae our first time out.Quote:
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Jeffrey Tambor!
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Originally posted by FloralBunny:
Jeffrey Tambor!
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In case it hasn't been said prior (edit: yep it has but I'll add my info anyways) in this thread, Max Headroom also stars:
Amanda Pays (who also starred in The Flash TV Series]
William Morgan Sheppard (Blank Reg) !!! ... who is the Father of Mark Sheppard ... and the latter gent guested on a little Known show called Firefly ....
(edit: I see that the Sheppard news is not new but the bit I added about Payscould be if one hasn't looked at Pays' imdb,com page)
The Elder Sheppard by the way is a major part of at least one of the special features on the Max Headroom set
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*minor bump*
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Anyone besides me get it yet?
The laughing Chrisisall
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