If a company started a service that let you choose episodes of TV shows, have them burned to a DVD and sent out, they'd make a mint. In less than a years time it will be too late. No-one but only the insane fan wants to buy a whole season of X-Files. They only want the good episodes. Is it really that hard? It'll never happen.

I've said this before.

A year and two days ago today:

[Last year] I also complained that you couldn't buy your own custom made DVDs with your favourite TV episodes or music videos on it... you had to buy a whole TV show season or some crap "best of" collection, or you couldn't buy most shows/videos at all. Still can't!

Such a good idea, why is it still not here? That's what I want for my birthday.

It's 2003. It's my birthday again (two days ago), and I still can't get my custom DVD! I'd say it's almost too late. A DVD burner now costs $550. Downloading a TV quality version of a TV show is both easy and "quick" (a few hours). A TV capture card with PVR capabilities is only $100. You've missed an opportunity kids. Don't say I didn't warn you. Twice.

I can't buy TV episodes on the net either. I'm telling you, there is a massive market for us poor Aussies who are 10 episodes behind in our favourite TV series (Buffy, Angel, Futurama, 24, Simpsons). Sell them with advertising still in there, I don't care. AUS$5 an episode? It's an opportunity to make your fans pay for the same thing THREE TIMES (from net, then TV/cable, then DVD) and you're missing out.

The big fans have been getting this stuff early for years. When I was in high-school my neighbours talked about how they traded for Days Of Our Lives from their US friends. In uni friends traded tim-tams for Babylon 5 episodes. These days it's all on Kaaza.