DVDaria -- Let's Make MTV put out Daria on DVD...

...and not screw it up.

Rather than wonder whether Daria will ever make it to DVD format -- saving us all from suffering through the inevitable self-destruction of our VHS cassettes -- a small-but-growing group of Daria fans are taking action now.

http://www.geocities.com/dvdaria will collect fan suggestions on what a DVD release should look like, with the hope of eventually placing this information under the right noses at MTV/Viacom. A petition has been launched -- available through the site or directly at http://www.petitiononline.com/dvdaria/ -- which in its two-day life and with nearly no promotion has gathered more than sixty signatures.

Please add your name to the list! Let's prove that Daria fans care about preserving the series in a (nearly) indestructable format, as it originally aired (with alter-egos), and with plenty of the extras that DVDs can provide -- if they're programmed properly.

Banners are available at the site for Daria fan Web masters to add to their own pages -- for which they'll receive a reciprocal link, upon letting us know.

VHS tapes last about 15 years under the best of conditions -- if one doesn't watch them too often and scrape off the oxides. MTV doesn't appear interested in continuing to run their series once they end production, and the jury is still out on the network's experiments in syndication.

For those of you outside the United States -- and some of whom have already lost Daria in market -- we support a "Region 0" or "regionless" DVD release, which might be your only chance to see every episode. And for everyone, a DVD series might be your best bet for sharing Daria with your grandkids. Let's make it happen.

And if you don't like DVDaria or the petition, start your own site or petition. Just let us know about it, so we can send folks your way, too. This isn't about anything except getting MTV to agree to a DVD release of Daria, and all efforts are appreciated.

Alan Benard

Do you know something that leads you to believe a petition would have any effect?

All the evidence I've seen points to the conclusion that MTV doesn't give a hoot in Hades what its audience thinks. If they can't even be bothered to start the show at the scheduled time, instead of two or three or seven minutes early, why should we expect them to produce a DVD just because a large number of people want it?

Send email to jsachs177 at earthlink dot net.

In article , Jonathan Sachs wrote:

Here in Chicago, "The Simpsons" are run in syndication three times a day (5:30 PM, 6:00 PM, and 10:00 PM). Many working twenty and thirty somethings could not get home in time to watch the evening editions of "The Simpsons" and watched the 10:00 PM edition. Starting in the fall of 1998, the local Fox affiliate WFLD stopped airing "The Simpsons" in lieu of "Third Rock from the Sun". Loyal viewers ended up flooding the WFLD servers with emails and petitions to return "The Simpsons"to its time slot. Thier server crashed. Twice. One week later, WFLD returned to airing "The Simpsons" to its 10:00 time slot. I think petitions can work.

On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 13:19:07 GMT, Jonathan Sachs wrote:

On the other hand, signing an e-petition only takes a couple of minutes of your time, so even if it ultimately proves to be a futile gesture, what's the harm in trying? (And FWIW, "Is It Fall Yet?" *is* supposed to be released on DVD some time this year, so part of this is coming true, at the very least.)

Martin
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