Sounds like this group needs a betamax exchange program.

(I.e. Shared Plex server, lol)


On Sat., Aug. 1, 2020, 6:48 p.m. Joe Hass, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just do a box-set a weekend. Start it, set your timer to remind you to
> check on it in 30 minutes, go do something else. You'd be surprised how you
> can get through them.
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 5:27 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
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