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I can't speak for Hudo games but my brother tried to obtain the Dunstall 17 goals game and he was told it would cost $1000 because the game was only on film and someone had to manually transfer it onto DVD. You would think the club would track down special games like that one and get them in a format that fans can view/buy even if only as a webstream online for members only. I would think it worth doing just so people don't forget about the feats of our past champions even if it is not particularly commercial. Even if the club put together a collection of 50 games of significance that you can't already buy (and assuming $1000 per game) we are only talking $50,000 plus whatever it costs to stream them online (inclusive of rights).
So, the question is why don't they. I reckon I could easily get together 10 fellow Hawthorn supporters to pay $100 each to get a DVD of the 16 and 17 goal games. But there is so much more that should be made readily available. I believe the club, and any club for that matter, should make their entire library available on DVD. Surely the club(s) are not concerned that general availability reduces the historical importance and therefor the value of these treasures.
Using Hawthorn for example, what is wrong with the club compiling a virtual tour of the museum and included in that tour is a list of videos of their entire library. Any member can gain access to those videos for a nominal cost. Seems like good business practice to me.
Channel 7 is sitting on a virtual goldmine of old footage. The odd showing of historical games is not good enough. Without being too nasty I think that the AFL purchasing the rights to those videos would have been money better spent than VLAD's self gifted pay rise. And going further down this track would not it be good business practice for channel 7 to offer their videos for sale.
Oh dear, I forgot. The age of Computers. One out = millions out. Aw well it sounded good for a while.

