///Digital releases for TV stories
User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160820225628 TV story pages typically contain rather detailed information about VHS and DVD releases. This information is also collected in table format on TV season pages. Some time ago, I've started adding information about digital releases (streaming/download availability). (Admittedly, this project has been slow. Currently, only Seasons 1-9 of the pre-Wales Who are covered in detail. Thanks to other users, however, there is also information about many other seasons.)
Recently, another user (sadly anonymous) joined this effort. In addition, the long-term project of creating a standardised template for all these releases has been tragically lost in general Wikia modifications. It has been suggested, therefore, to propose this topic to the whole community for discussion. I'm sure there are many aspects I may miss. But here are the questions I have and questions suggested by Shambala108.
- Should all these releases be on the main TV story page or be given a separate page? It seems that the previous idea was to have a "(home media)" page for each TV story.
- (From Shambala108 in my interpretation.) Is it feasible to track information about digital release availability in principle? Unlike a physical DVD, which exists objectively, digital stores are free to change availability of individual titles any time they like. To give an example, quite recently (and tragically), both US Netflix and Hulu lost their rights to Doctor Who completely. In principle, this may cause sudden and sometimes hard to detect changes that would make maintenance of this information problematic.
- The VHS/DVD availability is typically broken down into three separate streams: UK, US, Australia. For each there is a separate release date, separate covers, etc. Digital stores exhibit the same regional differences: each country has its own list of available titles in each of the digital stores. But there are many more of the countries. Which countries should be tracked in digital releases? Should we
- stick to the big three (UK, US, Australia)?
- add all other English-speaking countries (e.g., Canada)? or
- consider all English-language releases (e.g., in Germany)?
- (From Shambala108 in my interpretation.) How to determine dates of various releases?
I will add my thoughts regarding these questions separately below. Please, add questions of your own.
