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Customer Reviews

When, oh when, oh when WILL THIS MAKE A DVD Release???
I simply cannot believe this outstanding Australian tv series is still not out on DVD. PLEASE, WHOEVER OWNS THE RIGHTS TO THIS FILM, PLEASE PUT IT ON DVD BEFORE I DIE? I AM SO TIRED OF MY OLD VHS! I am sure I am in good company.

I would love this on a DVD playable in the US
The first time I saw "A Town Like Alice" with Helen Morse and Bryon Brown, I was sucked in from beginning to end. All five hours of it. I was able to purchase a full length version on (one) VHS tape many years ago and put on white gloves about once a year to bring it out of storage and watch it. I am never disappointed, it gets better every time and I have shown this masterpiece to family and friends who now love it as much as I do. A very well done, gripping, human interest story of love and war made so real by the wonderful cast without a lot of gratuitous flash and whiz-bang. My VHS copy is still watchable, but my heart's desire is a remastered, full length DVD, with any extras (interviews etc.) that might be available.

This is a good sign
I was cleaning out my VHS library when I came to my copy of A Town Like Alice. I wanted to sit down right then and watch it. But, I have become jaded by upconverted DVD playback to my HDTV. I have found that most older VHS tape do not visually play well on my current equipment. Hence, I needed to upgrade to a DVD version of A Town Like Alice.

It is not available yet. From the reviews on this page, it apparently that is has never been available as a DVD. However, Amazon is accepting prerelease notifications. This is promising since Amazon would only do this if there was a serious chance that A Town Like Alice will be issued in DVD format.

I speculate that Amazon also uses the prerelease notification check-off for market research. If the interest is strong, the powers to be (the owners of the rights to the program) would be encouraged to release the title. Weak interest could doom the release. The fact that five people have already written here within a very short time frame would indicate to me a serious interest for this great but old title.

Remember that for everybody that takes the time to write a comment, there are multiples of people that are also interested but remain silent. Marketing people know this and make decisions accordingly.