posted May 16, 2006 08:15 PM               

If you just do a search on Amazon for 60 Minutes, you'll see pretty much all of last year's stories come up as individual DVDs. And all with a release date of 6/15.

Looks as though they are DVD-Rs as a way to make available the previous year's stories on DVD.

posted May 17, 2006 07:24 AM               

Thanks!

posted May 17, 2006 10:01 AM               

Check it out on the web
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml

posted May 19, 2006 07:09 AM               

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Originally posted by hammer&feather:

This must be the TV Show 60 min and approx 20 min dealing with Neil Armstrong's life.
Anybody knows for sure?
Would be great if this is the full interview.
Andy

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After further review, it is true! 60 minutes are releasing previously aired segments for retail sale, including their piece on Armstrong with extra footage. Mark, you were right and this apparently was news to the newsroom!

posted May 31, 2006 04:56 AM               

http://store.cbs.com/video.php?itemID=12431&showID=22

posted May 31, 2006 06:15 AM               

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Originally posted by Blackarrow:
Where did you get it? If it's only available from 15th June, how did you get it? Is there a web-site where it can be ordered? (I have just spent 15 frustrating minutes checking the 60 Minutes site. Absolutely nothing remotely connected to Neil Armstrong. Mind you, I'm using dial-up.

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I got my copy from a friend who is a producer for 60 minutes II. After reading Robert's post and looking at the 60 store, I think the copy I have may not be the retail version. It looks like they have broken them out by segments for $29. The first four in that drop-down are from 1 show. (first man, airport road, The winner, rooney milk.) but some are unavailable. I am now as confused as everyone. I guess we will see on the 15th.

posted June 02, 2006 07:16 AM               

They may not be available for pre-order because Amazon has a service (that we don't use) where you don't have to keep stock - they run off DVD-R copies as they are ordered, so they fulfill orders from a master you supply, and the seller doesn't have to maintain inventory. Sometime's Amazon's system does strange things with inventory issues.

As I said, I'm not sure that the 60 minutes stuff is connected to this service, but since they are DVD-Rs, then they are run through a similar arrangement, if not through Amazon.

If you purchase a DVD-R (or +R for that matter) I'd make a few backups (if you are able) as there have been some issues with both compatibility and longevity.

Which brings me to another question: I have several "things" that I have run across in our research that haven't fit into any of our products. I'm thinking of maybe putting them on DVD-Rs and making them available (they wouldn't warrant creating a replicated product for them)...

thoughts?

Mark

posted June 02, 2006 10:08 PM               

What are the logevity issues with DVD recordables? do they break down over time or are you refering to handling abuse?
I am also in favor of the DVD-R releases. Disney now offers a license on their digital releases. If you break it and you have registered it, you can get it replaced for a small fee instead of retail again. Possible?

posted July 16, 2006 09:29 PM               

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CustomFlix and Amazon.com to Distribute CBS News' ''60 Minutes'' Broadcasts as Customized DVDs

60 Minutes viewers can now order DVD versions of many of their favorite stories from the broadcast at www.Amazon.com/60minutes

And soon CBS News archive, one of the great treasures of news content in the world, will make selected segments available on customized DVDs through a unique agreement CBS News has signed with Amazon.com and its subsidiary, CustomFlix. The deal was announced July 14, 2006, by Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports.

Containing millions of feet of film and over 2 million videocassettes, the CBS News archive is one of the world's largest repositories of news content and historical footage.

A virtual video history of the world from the mid-20th Century on, the archive includes some of the best reporting and footage from World War II, the Cold War, the Kennedy assassinations, the Civil Rights movement, the space program — including the 1969 moon landing — the Vietnam War, Middle East conflicts, the 9/11 attacks and every important news event in between.

The archive also contains news segments produced by 60 Minutes — the most watched and respected television news magazine in history.

"This arrangement provides us a way to make thousands of hours of CBS News content accessible to millions of Amazon.com customers on DVD," McManus said. "The service is another way to fulfill our goal of making CBS News content easily accessible to the public."

"CBS News programming is a natural fit for the CustomFlix Create Your Own DVD service," said Dana LoPiccolo-Giles, co-founder and managing director of CustomFlix. "We understand that many customers want the flexibility of picking and choosing CBS News content in a collectible format and customized DVDs are a perfect solution. Through the CustomFlix Create Your Own DVD service, customers can select the specific news they want and then CustomFlix builds a customized DVD containing just that content."

Amazon.com customers can order segments of daily or weekly news broadcasts and compilations on Amazon.com, or choose to assemble their own compilations from thousands of news segments through the CustomFlix Create Your Own DVD service. Customers can also order single reports or customized discs of CBS News programming on CBSNews.com.

CBS News programming now available for purchase includes:

• 60 Minutes — Content from the most successful news broadcast in television history, from hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews and feature segments to profiles of the people who have helped change our world.

• CBS Evening News — Classic and current news segments from the CBS Network's daily newscasts' weekday and weekend editions.

• CBS News Sunday Morning — Content from the number one Sunday morning news program, from newsmaker and celebrity profiles to compelling feature segments.

• CBS Long-Form Documentaries — Numerous single-topic documentaries produced by CBS News Productions during the past 10 years.

The DVDs created by the CustomFlix Create Your Own DVD system have uniquely customized artwork, are professionally packaged with full-color DVD faces and covers in over-wrapped amaray-style cases, and can contain up to 10 news segments or 90 minutes of video.

CBS News content can be purchased on www.amazon.com/60minutes or www.CustomFlix.com/60minutes beginning July 14.

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posted July 17, 2006 07:22 PM            

I have now re-ordered at the reduced price mentioned by Dave. Again, I am being told that it will take "2-3 weeks" to process the order. It "should" be posted in the first half of August. I have paid over $10 for an "expedited" postal service, which still might take 6 weeks. And that assumes that the same delay which blighted the original order doesn't affect the new order.

I won't be holding my breath, so anyone else thinking of ordering "First Man", be warned! Don't be ordering it as a Christmas present -I'm now assuming early 2007, which is completely ridiculous in this day and age.

posted July 18, 2006 12:37 PM               

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Originally posted by paul.i.w:
Being in the UK I have never heard of 60 minutes. Can you tell me more about the programme, format etc?

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Somebody answered this already, but I'll chime in. 60 Minutes is a very popular news program that runs Sunday nights at 7PM. I believe that it is the highest rated news program in the US, and their format is to do three segments per show focusing on a specific issue, then they have some goofball old coot at the end named Andy Rooney who tries to be ironic about some little thing that annoys him.

The show has been around forever, and was highly influential. I believe that its influence has waned considerably in the past decade, particularly now that cable television presents so many other options for news.

60 Minutes was long considered to be high quality news, where they discussed a story in depth. However, that's a relative thing--relative to other US news programs that usually spend no more than two minutes on a story, and frequently a minute or less. The show has long been criticized by conservatives for representing a left-of-center viewpoint (by American standards) and generally taking the view that government programs can and should solve social problems.

I personally have long considered them to be biased, and I never liked the show. They developed a style of journalism decades ago that was often referred to as "gotcha journalism" whereby they showed up at somebody's door to do an ambush interview. If the subject slammed the door in their face, then it looked like he had something to hide. Another thing they have been criticized for is their editing. People who have been interviewed on the program have claimed that the interviews are edited in such a way to make it look like the subject is being deceptive. For instance, they might stretch out the time before the subject responds to a question to make it appear that he is reluctant to answer the question.