What complications have arisen with recent DVD releases?
What has unfortunately happened is that people have not understood the processes a DVD has to go through to get onto the shelves. They’ve been scheduling release dates based on their previous experience of scheduling a VHS release. With VHS we used to just get a broadcast tape, put our logos on it, clean it up, and the product was then duplicated for mass distribution. But that doesn’t happen with a DVD and it’s very, very complicated. Did BBFC classification delay The Robots of Death? That is absolutely correct. That was just the most unforeseen thing. The BBFC have recently brought in a new set of guidelines. They felt they’d been a bit loose with the under 18 certificate titles. With Robots Of Death we assumed that the original VHS certificate of U would remain for our release. The DVD was then printed and ready to go before it was certified by the BBFC. We didn’t even consider that it would come back as PG. Their argument was that we’d exploited the more violent sequences, and take
