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From: m1b@rayssd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies.sw,net.movies,net.video
Subject: Legitimate TESB cassettes
Message-ID: <492@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 08:02:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 08:02:23 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jul-84 03:28:16 EDT
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	I just read in the August issue of Video Review that The Empire
Strikes Back will make its appearance on videocassette this fall.  To
quote:

		CBS/Fox will offer the movie for around $80 or $90
		per cassette -- close to twice what Paramount charges
		for Raiders of the Lost Ark.
		...CBS/Fox...had to bid high to get the video rights
		to the movie and are passing on that cost.

	We had to wait about 6 years for A New Hope to get from the theater
to cable.  It seems the gap hasn't narrowed that much for TESB to make its
way to cable -- maybe 5 years.  (Though it wasn't stated that cable would
get it, cable companies usually do get a movie a few months after the movie
is released on cassette.)  Bummer.

Joe Barone,		{allegra, decvax!brunix, ccieng5}!rayssd!m1b
Raytheon Co,		 Submarine Signal Div., Portsmouth, RI