Where's the "Telling" Video?

May 23, 1999, 6:00 AM ET9 posts by 8 posters
Question

Fans discuss why HBO hasn't released a home video of Jerry Seinfeld's "I'm Telling You For The Last Time" special, with debate over whether a commercial release is necessary given the HBO broadcast.

9 posts
art vandelay

Anyone else think it's odd that "I'm Telling You For The Last Time" hasn't been released on video? Anybody know why HBO hasn't put it out?

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John Grossart vandelay

Why would anyone purchase a video when it could have been video taped directly for free from the HBO special? I don't have HBO, but I have friends who do, and asked them to tape it for me when it aired?

Am I missing something ?

JG

art vandelay wrote in message news:[email]...

So why do they even bother putting ANY movie on video when you can just tape it off network television when they broadcast it?

Seth McFarland, CEO Jamawkinaw Enterprises "If I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain." -- Pink Floyd
John GrossSeth McFarland

Seth McFarland wrote in message news:[email]...

Or another way of asking the question is why would someone pay $15 to $30 (?) for a movie that can be recorded from cable or commercial t.v. on a $2.00 blank VHS tape?

I have a tape library of almost 1,000 movies including Academy Award winning pictures, actors and actresses from the mid 1930's to the present. Also at least 1,000 t.v. specials, entertainment, mini-series, documentaries, biographies, Seinfeld episodes, etc.

I don't think that taping from commercial or cable t.v. is a recent concept. I've been doing it since the first Sony Betamax came out more than 25 years ago. Consummers purchase an awful lot of blank tapes; they must be recording something on it.

JG

<<I have a tape library of almost 1,000 movies including Academy Award winning pictures, actors and actresses from the mid 1930's to the present. Also at least 1,000 t.v. specials, entertainment, mini-series, documentaries, biographies, Seinfeld episodes, etc.

I don't think that taping from commercial or cable t.v. is a recent concept. I've been doing it since the first Sony Betamax came out more than 25 years ago. Consummers purchase an awful lot of blank tapes; they must be recording something on it.

JG>>

how old are you?

i am selling the whole set of seinfeld on the last tape i also have that hbo special

Malc92John Gross

On Sun, 23 May 1999 10:00:08 GMT, "John Gross" wrote:

Yeah. Not all Seinfeld fans live in the US. :)