Old TV Shows on DVD (1 Viewer)

[gk5717]

I,ve got cable with about 150 stations I can watch, but what do I do. I watch old TV shows on DVD.
Mind you these are most enjoyed while drinking a few beers, as these shows do not require much concentration.
But here are my favorites,Combat, Amos n Andy, The Honeymooners, Dragnet, and just watched the first episode last night, Adam-12.
Also last night I started Band of Brothers again. I know this is at least the 10th time I watched this series, this one and the Sopranos, are non drinking series!
Gary

 

[theBaron]

I hear ya, Gary, I've gone three weeks now without watching any TV at all, and I don't miss it one bit. For any "watching" at all, I've watched 3 movies, in that time, on either Friday or Saturday night. Otherwise, I've been using the time to paint.

My cable subscription is paid through the end of the month, and I'm preparing to cancel it at that time. It's up to $70 a month, and I don't even have any premium channels like HBO in that subscription. I could use that money for other things.

I think it's absolute crap that cable companies don't offer us some kind of menu-based, pay-for-what-you-order system. The technology is there, and they all offer some kind of DVR and on-demand programming, anyway, but you still have to take a subscription with a hundred channels you'll never watch. You guys who grouse about eBay as a monopoly, I can't imagine what you say about the cable companies.

 

[Njja]

Man is this the truth, we have a new cable provider and it is the same story.

150 chanels of trash! I have a little religious chanel #57 which for some

reason has all old westerns on in the afternoon labeled educational.

I enjoy recording, Shotgun Slade, Lone Ranger, Bat Masterson, Cisco Kid.......

and of course wife likes My Little Margie, and I Married Joan.

So much for modern programing, and 150 chanels!

 

[Combat]

With the DTV transition, many local broadcast stations will be multicasting additional over-the-air stations. So these old TV shows are making a big comeback on broadcast TV. There are even new digital stations like "This TV" and others that air old movies and shows.

 

[binder001]

With the chase after ratings and the "dumbing down" of the US population the channels seem to have all headed for the lowest common demoninator. The History Channel is FULL of UFOs and Monster Quest, etc. Sci Fi is OK but I don't get the wrestling shows on it, we don't get Military Channel on our tier of service so I don't know what they are showing. I seem to end up on Food Network and/or the Sirius 50's and 60's music channels that come with our satellite TV service. It says something that I enjoy using my TV as a radio!

Gary B.

 

[tdubel]

I have been enjoying Hawaii Five O on dvd, nearly thru the 1st season, before that was Miami Vice. Like to switch off, you can only have too much Dano!

As far as new shows, i do enjoy Criminal Minds and Damages, I tivo those every week along with Numb3rs. I tend to stay with the crime dramas.

Older shows are definitely better and my dvd collection indicates my preference!!

I also have directv gazillion channels to the tune of $115/month, yet watch very little.

TD

 

[Capitolron]

Only ONE Old TV Show for Me !!

 

[THE SHOOTIST]

Cable companies will have to eventually submit to the customer demands, which as I see it "al la carte" cable, meaning that you'll select which channels you actually want to watch, and pay for them individually, rather than having to pay for three spanish, two religous, and 'Women's Entertainment' in order to get decent channels like History or Military, or even ESPN.

I have to pay for Golf, which I never watch, three spanish, which I don't watch, MTV-which has NOTHING to do with music, two religous, to get History.

 

[UKReb]

What we are suffering here guys is just pure nostalgia for the old time TV series that mesmerised all of us back in the steam-age.

I have no doubt- likewise- our kids in 30/40 years will be tuning into whatever electronic device displays their favorite "old-time" TV shows- that today we consider are garbage and just not worth viewing. Just a kind of natural progression I guess.

Reb

 

[theBaron]

I agree with you, Reb, to a point-there is certainly an element of nostalgia. But on the other hand, a lot of what's out there now really is pure crap, with just bad writing or bad acting, or both.

I'm reminded of something I thought, the last time I heard someone say that every generation thinks things were better in its youth, thereby dismissing that observation. But sometimes, things really are worse in the present than a generation before. Like for a Roman in 456 AD, for example. Not saying that that's the case now, but sometimes, there really is a decline of one kind or another.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Spitfrnd]

What we are suffering here guys is just pure nostalgia for the old time TV series that mesmerised all of us back in the steam-age.
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Steam age....., now that hurts mate.

 

[gk5717]

Here is another thing that irks me, COMMERCIALS.
I find something on cable that I like and every 7 minutes or so there is a 4 minute commercial.
Back in the 80,s when cable tv was first appearing I thought one of the selling points was that being cable and viewers had to pay to watch it there were to be no commercials.
A couple of people have stated they get cable to watch the military channel have to be honest, can,t remember the last time I found something good on that channel either.
Forget sports, but I think the channels most viewed at my house or the Food, E, HG, & Travel channels.
Gary

 

[theBaron]

Forget about commercials on cable, how about commercials on PBS? We already support it with our tax dollars, we shouldn't have to see any commercials on PBS. It's bad enough we have to deal with their quarterly beg-athons for donations.

Pull the federal plug and let those stations compete for dollars like any other broadcaster does.

 

[UKReb]

Sometimes in fact frequently I tend to enjoy the commercials more than the programme they are interrupting

Reb

 

[thebritfarmer]

Sometimes in fact frequently I tend to enjoy the commercials more than the programme they are interrupting

Reb

I agree with you there Reb although the North American commercials are not as great as the ones back home.