Good Idea From Hollywood (Well, Burbank) For A Change

The jills & jacks at the Four Warner Bros.' former studio (still bears the bros.' name) have come up w/ an idea both useful & semi-reasonably priced. Rather than buy a zillion more things of bandwidth & a pile of servers, & then making all their library available on-line, where one could stream it (always makes us think of urine, that "streaming") into one's teeny little monitor & speakers, the Warner Bros.' corporate heirs have established a deal whereby one can wander the WB archive (which will eventually include all the RKO & MGM flicks Ted Turner bought to colorize) pick a gem, a classic or crap,

and for $19.95 apiece, they'll burn a DVD-R and ship you the movie in a standard plastic case with cover art. There are no extras except the trailer, if it's available; there isn't even scene-by-scene chaptering. But you will get the film, shown in the correct aspect ratio and with a picture and soundtrack of mostly high quality. Virtually none of the movies in this collection has been available on DVD before. Many never even made it to VHS.

So you can watch a classic (or old, at least) American film on the DVD player & flat-screen telebision you bought from the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, instead of intermittent streaming on a monitor the size of the one in the back seat of the car you use to keep four-yr. olds distracted w/ Dora the Explorer® vids.  Really, you can't beat that (or the four-yr. olds) w/ a stick. 

Minions should go there & vote for what they'd like made available for the edification of the great unwashed. And suggest we'd all love to get some of those crappy WB tee vee shows from the distant past. The studio claims they'd like to make all of their shit available; the greater the demand, the sooner we'll all be able to see the rot that destroyed America's mind (Example: The Devil Is A Sissy.) in the privacy of our homes.

What we'd like most to see:

[T]he gratifyingly weird, including a large portion of the hitherto-unrecalled directorial oeuvre of William Conrad, better known as the portlier half of Jake and the Fatman.

We don't recall any of Mr. Conrad's directorial oeuvre either, but we're on the edge of our folding chair.