>From what I can gather it's simply money. Most of the streaming services disproportionately target young audiences - so you find few shows made before 2000 on them. That may be slightly different with something like CBS All Access or Peacock which are owned by networks and may have their own wares to throw on at little cost. But even then, there may be residuals due. And of course just because a show aired on NBC doesn't mean they own it. Why nobody has Homicide: Life on the Streets available, I don't know.
I think it's simply a choice they make. And older stuff tends to get missed out. It does frustrate me that many people will only watch a movie if it's on Netflix or Amazon. Most films aren't on those channels or their ilk. Indeed, amazingly, many films aren't even on the rental sites like Apple or Google Play. Personally I would be utterly lost without discs. I *still* buy them because the picture quality is better (all the streamers crush the picture compared to say Blu Ray), there are extras that you rarely find on streaming, and most importantly, I know I'll have access to them this time next week or next year. Stuff comes and goes, and I'm not playing that game. So yes, I have the Homicide boxset - the US version that looks like a filing cabinet! I'd love to rip my DVD/BR collection, but that feels like a very long term project from where I'm sitting - short of getting a bank of computers and fast DVD drives! Adam On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 9:53 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Rockford and Gunsmoke (selected episodes at least) are available to stream > on Peacock and CBS Access, respectively). > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 1:48 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Some of those older shows hold up well. "The Rockford Files" is still >> good. I'm not elevating "Gunsmoke" to literature, but the plots were >> sometimes nuanced. I couldn't watch the first 10 minutes of the show and >> tell you exactly how it was going to go. Well, except that Marshal Dillon >> would ride in at the end and make everything good. >> >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 1:31 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It might seem like you can stream almost any old TV show, but there >>> actually are a lot that are not available, even when they are available on >>> DVD. Does anyone here know why that is? >>> >>> I can stream Mission Impossible and Perry Mason, and of course Twilight >>> Zone, but not Mannix or Barnaby Jones or Cannon, nor The Fugitive or, one >>> of my favorite shows from back in the day, Harry O. >>> >>> I’m contemplating getting some of these on DVD (I have not purchased TV >>> DVDs since I made the decision to spend my TV money on streaming rather >>> than disks back when Netflix first started charging separately to stream), >>> but don’t want to do that if something is likely to change relatively soon. >>> -- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLdycin%3DyDioXo9MFrsXUeM1OAjQ%3Dn7v-sf%3DzgObaNysw%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLdycin%3DyDioXo9MFrsXUeM1OAjQ%3Dn7v-sf%3DzgObaNysw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yzf6ZVfq3%3DbZpzFTFfa4NsqVhW9braC1zUNZEKbkd9oxQ%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yzf6ZVfq3%3DbZpzFTFfa4NsqVhW9braC1zUNZEKbkd9oxQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKPKeHS57J3MqYEnN-An4x%3D7%2B-W7S%2Bx3PKBcdY8QvsY3w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKPKeHS57J3MqYEnN-An4x%3D7%2B-W7S%2Bx3PKBcdY8QvsY3w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGBH_3nW8eSiTAeFuPJE944r5K95VnR9szHf3jXPShOvmw%40mail.gmail.com.
