Neil:
Now there is a lucrative video market, so there's more cause to spend money on prestige productions because it will help them to sell.
Not to mention the lucrative reselling of beeb productions to other countries. P&P and other costume dramas make a fortune that way.
I'm hoping that the cheapness of DVDs to produce will encourage the reselling of all sorts of old stuff: television from the golden days of my youth, not to mention all those films that I saw once at festivals that never even made it to the UK art circuit.
I got the 4th Season on this thing called 'Betamax' which greying Lysters might remember
Hey, watch who you're insulting! I used to use a Betamax, and I've never had a single grey hair!
Tavia