# The Simpsons 3rd season on DVD!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 10, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-3rd-season-on-dvd/194184 "2003-08-10T10:58:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-3rd-season-on-dvd/194184/1 "2003-08-10T10:58:04Z")

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It’s due out on August 26th!

WooHoo!!

I can’t wait.

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**Author:** ![Deptford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Deptford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deptford)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-3rd-season-on-dvd/194184/2 "2003-08-10T11:52:47Z")

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Something that’s always puzzled me. Why have they been so slow in selling Simpsons Video’s or DVD’s.I mean were on what season 13/14? now and they’ve still only got as far as Season3  
Any other popular show like ‘Enterprise’, ‘The soprano’s’ "6 feet under’ , ‘Buffy’ ,etc ,etc; get released very quickly but not the Simpsons.  
Why not? I mean can you imagine how much money they’d make, but they seem strangely reluctant. Anyone know why?

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**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-3rd-season-on-dvd/194184/3 "2003-08-10T12:45:36Z")

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In the UK we seem to get a lot of shows, like Futurama and Buffy on DVD before the US, even though UK releases typically have translations into multiple European languages which must take additional time. So I’m assuming that the companies have good reason to delay these things.

My wild guess would be that it is due to syndication and other moneys that can be made from sale of the show. If something is out on DVD, people are potentially less likely to watch it on TV, so TV networks are less likely to buy the rights to show it, meaning that the production companies have to balance their revenues from different sources. The Simpsons still seems to get vast amounts of viewers for reruns in the UK and I think it’s similar in the USA, and the makers may not want to cut off that source of money just to get DVD sales which may be much smaller.

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**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-3rd-season-on-dvd/194184/4 "2003-08-10T12:46:48Z")

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(insert comma after Buffy to make slightly more sense)

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**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-3rd-season-on-dvd/194184/5 "2003-08-10T13:18:24Z")

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> The Simpsons still seems to get vast amounts of viewers for reruns in the UK and I think it’s similar in the USA, and the makers may not want to cut off that source of money just to get DVD sales which may be much smaller.

Still, there’s a moral imperative here.