We've had season one on DVD in the UK for a while now. Why were the US region one discs delayed for so long?
It’s not just Buffy, it’s something that we deal with on all our TV shows in the US.
When a network creates a TV show, the normal path for that property to create revenue is for it to have its run on network television, and then they’d sell it into syndication and then it would be released to home video.
In most instances, people are unwilling, or they don’t like the idea of releasing a complete season of a show on DVD or into the home entertainment market before they’ve sold it into syndication. So there was an issue with Buffy that season one hadn’t gone into syndication yet and we had to wait until they’d sold that into syndication before releasing it on DVD.
But now we’ve got the first season out, we’re hoping to follow with seasons two, three, four in more of a timely manner.
We've had season one on DVD in the UK for a while now. Why were the US region one discs delayed for so long?
