I still feel comfortable falling on the alarmist side of the line. Sure, content could pop up elsewhere, and plenty has, but will it always? If it does, in what format - I'm thinking about how Disney+ has the notoriously bad Buffy remaster and no way to access the unedited 4:3 version (not that Buffy is a show that disappeared, or anything). Maybe a better example would be how music rights impact the ability to license and stream content (with plenty of replacement tracks being the path forward). And then, in Canada (or any place outside of the US), there's the added layer of 'how/when will it arrive here'? Critics have been raving about how we can finally stream Homicide Life on the Street (a show very impacted by music licensing), but Peacock is not available here, so the show is still unavailable here.
Well, I think most streaming content nowadays has way too much repurposing value for it to simply get vanished. The works most at risk, based on my research thus far, have been reality shows.
I'd say formatting is a separate and far more pressing issue as ongoing technological change means the ongoing obsolescence of older versions of movies and now TV shows. So many works are continuously reissued, yet there are already plenty of VHS and DVD versions of those works that have not made it to/been reproduced on BluRay (eg. those with 1.33:1 aspect ratio or pre-HD color timing) and of course things also get dropped on the way to streaming, 4k, etc.
I'd say the best bet for Buffy and Homicide is to try to get the older DVD box sets, assuming those are still available somewhere. Also, it's not a bad idea to look on archive.org. I've actually found the entire second season of Joey (a really underrated series imo) there.
Regarding that tweet - as Todd Vaziri points out, it's actually a localization issue. And those have occurred before on other formats, even DVD. I myself encountered that with the Terminator DVD 20 years ago. (https://x.com/mls532/status/1827843714578080215)
I think Deadline and THR are still pretty good actually. But it seemed like everyone just had to jump on the 'They're erasing our TV/culture!' bandwagon without doing due diligence. And now, even if they are aware, they don't want to offer mea culpas.
To my ears, the term is misleading- it implies that all the episodes of the series were destroyed or otherwise made unavailable, when clearly that isn't the case.
I still feel comfortable falling on the alarmist side of the line. Sure, content could pop up elsewhere, and plenty has, but will it always? If it does, in what format - I'm thinking about how Disney+ has the notoriously bad Buffy remaster and no way to access the unedited 4:3 version (not that Buffy is a show that disappeared, or anything). Maybe a better example would be how music rights impact the ability to license and stream content (with plenty of replacement tracks being the path forward). And then, in Canada (or any place outside of the US), there's the added layer of 'how/when will it arrive here'? Critics have been raving about how we can finally stream Homicide Life on the Street (a show very impacted by music licensing), but Peacock is not available here, so the show is still unavailable here.
I also saw this, this morning, and was thinking of this question: https://x.com/shawnwrites/status/1827804048327848302
Well, I think most streaming content nowadays has way too much repurposing value for it to simply get vanished. The works most at risk, based on my research thus far, have been reality shows.
I'd say formatting is a separate and far more pressing issue as ongoing technological change means the ongoing obsolescence of older versions of movies and now TV shows. So many works are continuously reissued, yet there are already plenty of VHS and DVD versions of those works that have not made it to/been reproduced on BluRay (eg. those with 1.33:1 aspect ratio or pre-HD color timing) and of course things also get dropped on the way to streaming, 4k, etc.
I'd say the best bet for Buffy and Homicide is to try to get the older DVD box sets, assuming those are still available somewhere. Also, it's not a bad idea to look on archive.org. I've actually found the entire second season of Joey (a really underrated series imo) there.
Regarding that tweet - as Todd Vaziri points out, it's actually a localization issue. And those have occurred before on other formats, even DVD. I myself encountered that with the Terminator DVD 20 years ago. (https://x.com/mls532/status/1827843714578080215)
Alas journalism in its purest form no longer exists in such outlets. They would rather induce rage or fear in readers than keep them informed.
I think Deadline and THR are still pretty good actually. But it seemed like everyone just had to jump on the 'They're erasing our TV/culture!' bandwagon without doing due diligence. And now, even if they are aware, they don't want to offer mea culpas.
It’s sad. No wonder people are confused or panicked. Such lack of accountability!
To my ears, the term is misleading- it implies that all the episodes of the series were destroyed or otherwise made unavailable, when clearly that isn't the case.