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* Australian company Shock Entertainment are bucking the trend by actually beginning to put [[Neighbours]] to DVD - so far, DVD releases have been of the type that are collections of special episodes, but on April 4 2012 Shock released "Neighbours: From the Beginning Vol 1" which comprises the first 56 episodes (of nearly 6500 to date). Vol 2 is expected in November 2012, and will probably be of a similar length.
* [[Dark Shadows (TV series)]] has a VHS release in the early 1990's, and has also gotten a recent DVD release, including an [[Special Edition|Special edition]] with a coffin-shaped box to house the whopping 131-disc release.
* Latin [[Soap Opera|Telenovelas]], who are shorter and more self-contained than Anglo soaps, suffer of the same unreleasebility problem but for different reasons. In theory, having less episodes would mean their producer could whip out a boxset if they wanted to. In practice, Telenovela producers make their money from advertising, syndication, the occasional merchandise like soundtrack discs, and the selling of rights for the eventual [[Foreign Remake]]. While many companies has finally gotten that people want to see their favorite classics again (prompting the existence of cable channels like TLNovelas), not all of them had grasped that people may want to have physical copies of their beloved classics. Also, a lot of telenovelas were produced under weird production schemes, and many production companies folded without no-body stepping on the rights, so good look to see tape circulation of those.
** For a while, Televisa did release DVD versions of their most beloved telenovela classics. Unfortunately, they were severely compressed version of them (usually 60 chapters on DVD vs. 180 from the original broadcast), with many important scenes left out, and all them seemed to be edited by a monkey high in mescaline.
** The tape circulation is most prone on Narconovelas, a recent, Colombian-born genre about the life of high profile drug traffickers and the people related to them one way or another, peppered with high doses of violence and sex, that in its native country are broadcast after the [[Watershed]]. Unfortunately, the [[Media Watchdog]]s believe that these soaps are [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!|promoting such a lifestyle]] and block them to be shown one way or another, so in many places the only way to watch them is buying them to pirate DVD sellers.
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