When folks Rhino Handmade and Hip-O Select started making limited-edition releases of albums with cult followings, it was only inevitable that someone would pick up the torch for the DVD market…and, now, someone has.
DVD on Demand is going to be releasing titles through Customflix from NBC Universal, A & E, and PBS on a made-when-ordered basis. Some of the titles mentioned at the moment are a collection of “Where In The World Is Matt Lauer?” segments from the annual feature on NBC’s “Today,” as well as a “Westerminster Kennel Club Show” disc, but A &E has no end of “Biography” episodes up for grabs, and PBS has “Antiques Roadshow,” “Nova,” and others.
My God. Does this mean I might finally be able to get “Quark” on DVD…?
UPDATE: I traded E-mail with the very pleasant Katrina Florence, the publicist at NBC who’s handling media queries about DVD on Demand. I asked of the possibility of seeing short-lived or cult programs released via this new program, and she responded, “I can’t give you a really definitive answer regarding those TV shows…what I can tell you is that at this time we’re geared more toward releasing the unique specialty titles like the ones listed in our press release, as opposed to our TV catalog. But DVD-on-Demand certainly opens up options previously unavailable in terms of bringing titles to the market.” So it’s not a “yes,” but it’s not a “no,” either. I like those odds…
