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Looking for Digital Future
By Kent Gibbons 10/9/2006
Fans of cancelled Sci Fi Channel series Stargate SG-1 hope Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store or maybe Amazon.com Inc.'s Unbox will give the show an extended life. They're building support for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s to continue the show and sell episodes via those or other pay-per-download outlets. After that, the space-adventure show could appear on international television, be sold on DVD and later air on U.S. broadcast stations now showing older episodes in syndication.Fans paid $6,940 for a full-page ad in the Sept. 29 Variety urging calls and letters to Sci Fi executives. But one campaign organizer says she doesn't seriously expect that network to reverse course and air new one-hour episodes after the current season ends next year.“But we do expect [new episodes] to 'air' on iTunes, Amazon Unbox, Google Video, Virgin Digital and all the other readily accessible online download services, followed by the usual-suspect broadcasters overseas,” Alison Butler, co-owner of the SaveStargateSG1.com Web site, said in an e-mail exchange from England. “We expect new Stargate SG-1 episodes to be made available on DVD with a kid-at-Christmas array of extra features — from cast commentaries to 'director's cut' extended episodes — to make this additional purchase a worthwhile one,” she said in her e-mail. “We also expect that new episodes would in time air on U.S. television in syndication.”Sci Fi's response, via spokeswoman Lana Kim: ...
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as well as results of the survey!
Excerpt:
Looking for Digital Future
By Kent Gibbons 10/9/2006
Fans of cancelled Sci Fi Channel series Stargate SG-1 hope Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store or maybe Amazon.com Inc.'s Unbox will give the show an extended life. They're building support for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s to continue the show and sell episodes via those or other pay-per-download outlets. After that, the space-adventure show could appear on international television, be sold on DVD and later air on U.S. broadcast stations now showing older episodes in syndication.Fans paid $6,940 for a full-page ad in the Sept. 29 Variety urging calls and letters to Sci Fi executives. But one campaign organizer says she doesn't seriously expect that network to reverse course and air new one-hour episodes after the current season ends next year.“But we do expect [new episodes] to 'air' on iTunes, Amazon Unbox, Google Video, Virgin Digital and all the other readily accessible online download services, followed by the usual-suspect broadcasters overseas,” Alison Butler, co-owner of the SaveStargateSG1.com Web site, said in an e-mail exchange from England. “We expect new Stargate SG-1 episodes to be made available on DVD with a kid-at-Christmas array of extra features — from cast commentaries to 'director's cut' extended episodes — to make this additional purchase a worthwhile one,” she said in her e-mail. “We also expect that new episodes would in time air on U.S. television in syndication.”Sci Fi's response, via spokeswoman Lana Kim: ...
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as well as results of the survey!
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