There's a lot of movies on VHS that have not come to DVD yet. List your "DVD hopefuls" here. If you hear or know about a scheduled release on DVD list it here too.

"The Adventures of Robin Hood" (W/ Errol Flynn) Coming out in Sep.

"The Wicked Lady" (w/ Marina Sirtis)

"Star Trek-The Animated Series" (OK, that's not a movie...but still)

I must add that you can add TV shows too.

Star Trek (in season boxed sets)

Schindler's List (Universal is really behind in the DVD game)

Quantum Leap (though, granted, only a few select episodes have made it to VHS -- and, again, Universal)

Amazing Stories (again, only a select few have been released on VHS -- and, again, Universal)

The Lion King (due out this year)

Aladdin (due out next year, I believe -- and I would love to see a test/storyboard of Ashman's "Humiliate the Boy" if there is one)

Indiana Jones trilogy (due out this year)

Finding Nemo (a little early, but I want it! I want it! I want it!)

Batman: The Animated Series (boxed sets that include all the episodes, not those random episode disks)

Warner Bros. cartoon shorts (they released three volumes, I believe, of unedited Warner Brothers cartoons on laserdisc -- it's time for them to be released on DVD, preferably unedited. While I agree some of the content is controversial/offensive by today's politically correct standards, they're also interesting and important from a historical standpoint.)

Disney cartoon shorts! (Bring on the Donald Duck sets! Not just some random shorts tacked onto multiple feature DVDs)

Song of the South (I know, will never happen. But, again, I think that from a historical standpoint, this film is significant and interesting)

Speaking of animation... bring on Tiny Toons and Animaniacs... heck, why not Histeria, while we're at it.

The Muppet Show (again, not just select episodes... I want them all!)

"Hogan's Heroes"
"Green Acres"
"F-Troop"
"The Best of the Hollywood Squares" (All the original ones they can find)

Hamlet (Branagh anf Gibsons)

The Lone Gunmen
The Tick (cartoon and the very short live action series, maybe together)

I want the original Star Wars trilogy. But then again, so do plenty of others.

Anyone hear any word about when the Season Two DVDs of Farscape will be put together for a box set?
Sony is going to release Rocky and Bullwinkle by season, with Season One coming out in August. As well as the attendant fillers they had that year, it should have the complete Jet Fuel Formula and Boxtop Robbery (the latter having gotten badly hacked up when it was released among the Buena Vista videos).

"The Phil Silvers Show" aka "You'll Never Get Rich" aka "Sgt. Bilko."

oh yes, entire Farscape seasons in Box sets. that would be good

Uh, isn't there already a topic like this at THE Kitchen Sink (as opposed to THIS Kitchen Sink)?

The A-Team
Knight Rider
MacGyver (and the movies)
SeaQuest
Sliders

My DVD Hopefuls to be Eliminated from the DVD Landscape

1. DVD "Double Dips". E.g. "Babel" (2006) released 2/20/07 as a single-disc barebones DVD, and released 9/25/07 as a 2 disc special edition DVD, a 7-month gap between releases, with the studio withholding any press announcement (prior to the single-disc release) of the impending special edition release. Or "The Princess Bride" (1987) released 6/13/06 in the "Buttercup Edition" and "Dread Pirate Edition", followed by the 11/13/07 release of the "20th Anniversary Edition".
2. Full Frame or Pan and Scan versions of a movie on the same disc as the Widescreen version of the same movie. Common with many MGM barebones DVDs.
3. Flipper discs. E.g. the original DVD releases of "Goodfellas" (1990) and "The Right Stuff" (1983). These have largely gone by the wayside for movies, but are still common for television season releases.
4. One movie spread over two discs, unless the movie is over 3 hours long.
5. 2 Disc Special Editions which are in effect single-disc editions spread over two discs (e.g. "Poseidon" (2006) - "2 Disc Special Edition", which has the 98 minute movie on disc one, with no audio commentaries, and about 45 minutes worth of trailers/featurettes on disc two).
6. Chapter Selects, Trailers, and Interactive Menues listed on the back of the DVD case as "Special Features" (see typical Paramount Pictures barebones DVD releases).
7. Snapcase DVDs - originated and proliferated by Warner Brothers and New Line DVD releases. Thankfully Warner Brothers and New Line discontinued using these cases a couple years ago for new releases, but the overwhelming majority of titles released with these DVD cases are only available with these cases.
8. Bad DVD packaging in general - Amray or Digipack cases should be the standard. Snapcases, slipsleeves, shoddy pieces of cardboard, cases shaped like books, helmets, heads, attache cases, etc., should be abolished.
9. DVD hubs which require the "jaws of life" to extricate the DVD.
10. DVDs which don't have the features or aspect ratio listed on the back cover.
11. Security Tape, especially when stuck to part of the DVD cover art insert. This is standard for Amray DVD cases. I have replaced many an original case, and carefully trimmed several cover art insert edges because I couldn't pry the tape off the case without leaving behing a lot of sticky tape goop, or part of the tape was stuck to part of the cover insert, and the tape stuck to the insert couldn't be removed without ripping off a few specks of the surface of the cover insert, leaving glaring white spots. As an aside, how hard is it for the people who put the security tape on the case to avoid taping part of the cover insert?
12. False advertisements on the packaging. E.g. "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) 2 disc Special Edition, which advertises inclusion of both the unrated international version and the U.S. theatrical version (but includes only the unrated international version), and advertises an audio commentary with Sydney Pollack (but includes no audio commentary).
13. Snaps on an Amray DVD case. Totally unnecessary and annoying.
14. "Missing" (1982). No chapter stops, no menu, no nothing other than the movie. You put the DVD in the player and it plays just like a VHS tape, except that when the movie reaches the end, it starts over (continuous loop). The price is under $10, but I'd have paid an extra $5 for basic studio DVD features.
15. TV DVDs without original music. I understand why this is (lack of licensing foresight). However, I'd rather pay a high price for the show as it actually was than a low price for an altered version of the show. Some series don't even have the original theme song (e.g. "Married With Children" after Season 2, "Tour of Duty").
16. When studios know about or quickly become aware of defective DVDs (based on customer feedback), but the studios aren't very public or helpful about remedying the situation. E.g. you have to find out about a phone number to call on some non-studio-affiliated web site, or you call the number purportedly set up by the studio to process replacement disc requests, and the people at the number are generally clueless. E.g. Lionsgate.
17. Full frame or Pan and Scan only releases of widescreen movies.
18. Audio commentaries by people who really should have watched the movie or television episode before recording their comments, or who are about 30 years past remembering anything significant about their experience on the production.
19. Multiple versions of movies available only on separate DVDs, when seamless branching could have easily been done. E.g. "Ghost Rider" (2007), with simultaneous theatrical cut and extended cut releases separately available. Contrast with "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007) with a widescreen release containing both the theatrical cut and an unrated cut on the same disc, through seamless branching.
20. Extended Edition or Director's Cut available only DVDs. E.g. "Miami Vice" (2006).
21. Multiple movie box sets where one or two movies is a gem, but the other three to five movies are forgettable, or the other three to five movies have been otherwise widely available individually.
22. Failure to include original audio and/or 2 channel stereo audio tracks.
23. Subsequent editions which don't have features of previous editions.
24. Extremely limited releases of DVD titles. Common with Anchor Bay, HBO Studios around 1997, and early Criterion Collection releases.
25. Non-anamorphic video.

26. TV season DVDs released in partial season volumes (e.g. "Season One, Volume One"). This is fine if the show currently airs on cable television, with long breaks between season halves (e.g. "Battlestar Galactica", or during season 6 of "The Sopranos" when that show aired). However, for shows like "Rawhide" or "The Fugitive", shows which aired over 40 years ago), this is nothing more than a pricing gimmick. Instead of pricing a season set at $70, two halves of that season are released separately (usually months apart) at $35 each. The idea is obviously to keep consumers who would balk at a $70 season set, but who irrationally wouldn't balk at a $35 half-season set one day, and another $35 half-season set one day a few months later.

27. Same edition, retitled and re-released. E.g. "10th Anniversary Edition" has exactly the same disc content as the non-anniversary edition which was released two years earlier.

12 0 clock high the tv show !

in borders or a video store !

sorry. number 28.

also 29. Get Smart the tv show in the 60s.

30. DVD sets which take a program originally made with a television aspect ratio and attempt to format it for wide screen.

We're only going to see more of that now that everyone's getting widescreen TVs. Ironically now the people who complained the loudest about widescreen DVDs ("I don't like those black bars") will now be complaining about TV shows from the 90s and before not fitting their TVs and having bars on the side.

The other day at work some 70+ year old customer at my bar was trying to tell me that I could get rid of those black "ESPN" logo side bars that they use to show the 4x3 produced sports news programing on ESPN-HD, while showing game footage in true HD. He was trying to tell me that there's "a button on your clicker that will get rid of those" and as I was trying to explain to him that even if I could find such a button all I would be doing is cropping the sides of the picture, stretching middle out of shape and loosing part of the real HD images when they come through. He got mad at me.

31. The "Bonus" Digital Copy. These things take up way too much drive memory to put a sizeable collection of movies on a hard drive. So you have to pick and choose. And really, just how badly does someone need to have "Juno" a button click away at all times on their laptop or I-Phone? Plus, you bought the DVD anyway, and if you don't need the "bonus" digital copy, it probably unnecessarily added about $5 to the price of the item.

Re: The last two posts of July 15, 2008

I think that a fair solution for those folks who just don't get aspect ratios, but who have widescreen TVs, would be to have a menu option on all widescreen TVs whereby the viewer could blow up or horizontally stretch all 4:3 images to fill their 16:9 or wider television screen. That way, they'll be satisfied that even though the image is cropped or stretched, it fills the whole screen.