Posted on 08/24/2010 6:18:17 AM PDT by Slyscribe
Same here. I bought the complete first season of The Virginian when it was released just a few months ago.
Also bought Wagon Train, Laredo and the complete Rifleman shows and many more...
Who needs crummy cable/satellite, I’m in HOG HEAVEN!!
Take care buddy...
Now I am officially scared.
I remember when cable begain, sign up for $30 per month, I think was the rate. I said then, this is not going to catch on, NO ONE would be stupid enough to ever pay for TV!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA on me.
I’m glad you’re liking it. It was great fun to work on.
Just in case you haven’t found it yet:
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Classic TV and old movies in the public domain. I love the Charlie Chan flix myself
Thanks mrsmith!
I love classic TV. I probably have close to 3000 titles of pre 1965 films.
On Demand was pretty good for young kids a few years ago, but the quality seems to have gone down. They just never change the shows any more.
I hear that complaint from the wife quite a bit.
I find the iPhone YouTube ap keeps him happy. All his favorite shows are on there. Plus he really likes the videos of construction/excavation equipment, trash trucks, and his new favorite, Robosaurus.
I thought a British show called Fireman Sam was really good for young kids (3-5). It was all done with stop action, with a lot of humor and charm. The new series with computer generated animation seems to be aimed at an older audience with some more violence - it’s jumped the shark IMHO. And unfortunately most of the Fireman Sam episodes on YouTube seem to be from an older stop-action series that was more primitive. If you can find them the good ones are the 2003-2005 series.
Yes. We have seen Fireman Sam. He did enjoy that show.
Rory the Racing Car is another that, at first was too busy, but now he enjoys. It has the sam look and style of Fireman Sam.
Pengu is a Gumby style claymation that is good too.
Then we have found Pocoyo on YouTube. It’s great computer 3D fun.
Caillou is one that he has latched onto that seems to retain it’s charm for some reason. I guess because it’s about a little boy so he identifies with it. There are a ton of episodes for it on the net. It’s old school animation.
OH. And of course Thomas the Train. He’s a die hard fan of all it’s incarnations.
I guess this means the vendor companies will be cuttin’ us some GREAT DEALS. /sarc
Never have I seen such a bunch of flawless foot-shooters than the bottom-feeders who run the anonymous portions of the entertainment industry. Another example are those (in this case, the RIAA) who tried to fight slipping CD sales by attacking indie stores which bought and sold used disks. And ahead of the digital download revolution (which is finally, possibly irrevocably, destroying the indie record stores) the DVD came out, putting movies on the shelf with lower prices than CDs. GENIUS.
Thanks Slyscribe.
HDTV PING LIST
http://www.twice.com/article/456390-Sony_Adds_New_Bravia_3D_LCD_TV_Series.php
Sony Adds New Bravia 3D LCD TV Series
By Greg Tarr — TWICE, 8/26/2010
New York - Sony used its end-of-summer open house for the press here Wednesday to take the wraps off of three new Bravia 1080p LCD TVs with 3D capability.
The new NX810 TV series features models in the 60-inch ($4,700 suggested retail price), 55-inch ($3,700) and 46-inch ($2,700) screen sizes, replacing the NX800 line from last year and joining the HX800 3D TV line introduced earlier this year.
This year’s iterations add what Sony is calling “Dynamic LED Edge Lighting.” The system employs an expanded number of edge-lit LED zones projecting light from the left and right sides of the screen, and adds local dimming technology to adjust the brightness of each of the zones. This improves black-level performance, though not to the degree of step-up models using local dimming controlled full-array LED backlighting.
The new NX810 models ship in September. Other features in the sets include a monolithic design, MotionflowPRO 240Hz smooth-motion technology, Bravia Internet Video with built-in Wi-Fi and widgets, and an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust the picture in changing room conditions.
Sony’s active-shutter 3D glasses, required to view 3D images on the sets, will be sold separately.
Meanwhile, the company also said it is now shipping its SMP-N100 Netbox ($130 suggested retail), which will deliver Bravia Internet Video Link capabilities to TVs that don’t already have the feature built in.
The box features full 1080p support, built-in Wi-Fi capability, DLNA and USB media player compatibility, support for a wide range of formats including MKV and DivX, and a party sync mode.
We’ll be dropping cable TV in a month or two. So many of the channels are utter jokes with perpetual recycling of shows. I have an Obama voter friend who is always raving about the Sundance channel. At least that artsy-farty channel has fresh material
Almost 5 years for me.
I attribute much of my childrens’ calm demeanor to not having the frenetic idiot box pumping out whatever hysteria advertisers want.
Just never got service installed when we moved. At prior location had full service with crappy artifacts, huge overlay ads, and near content free directory.
Between Netflix and library video is far better and cheaper.
Of course, all 300 died.
I can do without most of the “premium” movie channels. I hate paying for HBO to see movies but then they use that money to fund “original” left wing propaganda and porn.
You simply have to be patient and don’t succumb to the desire to watch the “live” broadcast so you talk about it around the water cooler at work. Then, a year later, watch the entire season series of Sopranos (or any other TV show) on DVD for about $24. That is about 1/3 of the cost of cable TV for just one month, an incredible bargain. The last couple years I’ve been buying complete packages of TV shows on DVD so I can watch them at my leisure. I’ve been going back and revisiting forgotten favorites, mainly British, like “Danger: UXB,” “Rumpole of the Bailey,” and “Piece of Cake.” It is so much more pleasant than watching cable! We keep the cable exclusively for my wife’s insatiable appetite for sports, dating shows, singing and dancing shows, real estate shows and cooking shows.
When I first noticed cable; etc becoming popular it was and still is owned and run by thugs. They never had a real interest in quality programing or any interest in the consumer. It is all about and has already been about as cheap a programing you can get while making an obscene amount of money.
And, of course, we all know the first lie shot out of the cannon, “We will do have commercials on cable”.
Oops, bad typing fingers. We will not have commercials on cable said the cable companies.
Yeah right.
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