Home Media Magazine - September 14-20, 2008 - (Page 9) www.homemediamagazine.com MENU FROM THE EDITOR BY STEPHANIE PRANGE, EDITOR IN CHIEF www.homemediamagazine.com TV DVD Is the Way for Me PUBLISHER & EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Thomas K. Arnold EDITOR IN CHIEF Stephanie Prange EDITORIAL Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelique Flores Senior Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erik Gruenwedel Senior Reporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Tribbey Assistant Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Latchem Associate Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Billy Gil, Kyra Kudick Contributors. . . . . . . . . John Gaudiosi, Anne Sherber, Fred Topel, Ralph Tribbey, Holly J. Wagner ART Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melbert Sebayan Graphic Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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I see these episode online to catch up on a TV series, I am finding ongoing plots as a very long feature, best watched in one, almost that watching a TV show one episode at a time is most continuous, sitting. inefficient and annoying. While many have commented on the anywhere, anytime naI am a power watcher, a TV DVD binger, if you will. ture of short-video Internet viewing, I also must extol the virtues I will watch an entire season in a weekend, often viewing it of full-season viewing, which often can’t be had on the Internet over again with commentary. or DVR in as convenient a form as on DVD. I hate cliffhangers, and thus I watch series Episodic TV grew out of a need in the with ongoing plots, such as “Lost” and more IT FRUSTRATES ME TO broadcast business to keep viewers over time recently “Mad Men,” in seasons, rather than WATCH [TV] IN EPISODE and to sell advertising. It didn’t grow out of by episode. FORM AT ALL. I’D RATHER viewers’ entertainment consumption preferI don’t need to be up-to-date on the latest WAIT UNTIL THE SEASON ences. Some of our best novels first appeared happenings in “Mad Men.” In fact it frustrates ENDS AND WATCH IT IN in episodic form, but we don’t read them that me to watch it in episode form at all. I’d rather ONE LONG SESSION. way today. wait until the season ends and watch it in one While Web outlets such as iTunes may be long session. breaking viewers’ slavery to the clock, they still offer shows in I have no idea what happened on the last season of “Lost.” I’m episodic snippets without commentary and other extras that waiting for the TV DVD season set to catch up. allow a viewer to savor a series. TV DVD is the ideal medium I know others like to record episodes on their DVRs, but for for this purpose, and the most-definitive statement on a TV me that still doesn’t match the convenience of watching the show. Who says everyone must watch a TV show in half-hour entire season at once with commentary on TV DVD. or hour increments? I don’t. In fact — and this will no doubt irritate TV executives — if I catch a TV episode of a series I like on cable or broadcast TV, Stephanie Prange’s e-mail address is sprange@questex.com MARKETING Marketing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristina Kronenberg 714/338-6743 Marketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaitlyn DeWaard IN THIS ISSUE SEPT. 14-20, 2008 / VOL. 30 / NO. 37 News …………………………… 10 Movie Gallery seeks to convert debt into common stock; Image gets big-name titles; DVD swapping site Peerflix is sold; a 3-D testing lab is launched. CALENDAR I STREAMING MEDIA WEST Streaming Media West covers both the business of online video and the technology of streaming, downloading, webcasting, Internet TV, IPTV and mobile video. 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NBC’s back on iTunes; Apple has new iPods and HD TV programming on iTunes; YouTube continues to reign atop Web video sites. I FIFTH ANNUAL TV DVD AWARDS Presented by Home Media Magazine, the awards honor TV DVDs released between Oct. 1, 2007, and Sept. 30, 2008, in a number of categories. The awards will be selected by a consumer vote to be held online from Sept. 22 to Oct. 3. Oct. 14 Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, Calif. info: 714/338-6743 Research ……………………… 26 Top 20 DVD Sellers ……………………… 26 Blu-ray sales help bump Paramount/Dream- Top 20 Rentals and Top 10 Charts ……… 28 Works’ Transformers to No. 3 on the national sales chart; Universal’s The Office: Season Four is the Just Announced ……………… top seller, and Fox’s What Happens in Vegas is Genius Products slates Anamorph; HBO draws out the top renter. Deadwood: The Complete Series. 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