[B5JMS] Attn JMS: DVD quote correct?

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From: "Joseph DeMartino" <jdemarti at bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:40:46 -0500
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This turned up on the "info" newsgroup as part of a digest of your recent usenet
posts to the .mod:

">You don't giggle like Mozart did, do you?

Put that feather down right NOW mister.
jms

>In response to some premature reports about WB stopping the DVD release of B5,
JMS wrote this, on Oct. 10:

Actually, I checked with WB, and they say they've finished conforming all but 3
season 1 eps for DVD, and are still intending to go ahead.
jms

>Someone was upset that JMS wasn't interviewed for NPR, though John Romita Jr.
was, and didn't even mention JMS:

As an FYI to the question posed here earlier, no, I wasn't contacted by NPR, but I
was interviewed for this by the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and the
Washington Post, so I think we can let this
one slide....

jms"

I recognize every one of those quotes *except* the one about the DVDs. Didn't see
it on the .mod, didn't see it in the Columbia mailing list, didn't find it on
JMSNews. I strongly suspect that this is wishful thinking (or a 'net rumor) that
somebody slipped in between some legit quotations in order to give it more
credibility. Can you comment?

I especially found the timing odd since you are supposed to have posted that WHV
was almost finished prepping season 1 on October 10th, and on October 16th WHV had
this to say about "B5" on DVD, during a live chat on the Home Theater Forum:

> We will evaluate the first release's reception and hope it's great. Because if
the DVD performance does not improve upon the VHS performance from a few years
back, it will not continue. So please support Release #1. <

Well, gotta run. I'm headed out to Best Buy to pick up the disc because I'm
working 3 back-to-back 15 hour days starting Thursday, and by the time the copy I
pre-ordered from Amazon shows up I won't have time to look at it. <g>

Regards,

Joe





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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 04 Dec 2001 20:03:39 GMT
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Yes, those are all mine, and due to the response to the movie B5 DVDs it's my
understanding that WB is almost there on deciding to release the first few
seasons.

 jms

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