You ain't seen nothing yet.
Posted on 09/23/2015 1:30:05 PM PDT by blam
Star Trek "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (First aired: January 26, 1967)When the Enterprise is flung back in time while trying to escape the gravitational pull of a black star, they find themselves in orbit around a 1960's Earth. When they are seen by a U.S. Air Force pilot, they beam him aboard but then face the dilemma of what to do with him as he learns more and more about the future.
We had four channels, but Channel 4 was always “snowy.”
In college in 1980 I was introduced to cable. You mean I can watch all 162 Cub games? Great!
Now cable is a morass, and I rarely watch anything but sports. The content of most history shows and documentaries are on the internet or You Tube.
I think the other poster has corrected me.
That line about TV going away was said by Data in a Star Trek, TNG episode. I found the script for Tomorrow is Yesterday and that line was not in there.
Perhaps Spock said something similar in another episode.
I figure by the time My dad's generation and my generation die out TV as we know it now will be a novelty in the same way the few Drive-in Movie theaters that still exist are now. (And I think regular movie theaters will fade away also.)
Who would ever want to go back to 357 channels of confusion when you can just open Netflix (or Hulu or any other service), type what you want to see in the search box and hit enter.
My wife watched it. And yes, it was a cliche of “right wing militia” types.
My favorite “right wing” militia that wanted to overthrow the government is the Founding Fathers. Take that stupid libs.
"And that's the way it was....AND WE LIKED IT!"
I hate all those logos and other stuff cluttering the screen.
It’s getting to the point where most of what I watch on the TV/cable networks anymore is just some sports, and I don’t watch a lot of that. A few other programs, mostly documentaries and such on PBS or TVO (Ontario, Canada’s public broadcaster), and the occasional rerun of a sci-fi show on Space, or the new Doctor Who season episode that aired on Saturday.
Most of the rest of the time these days if I’m watching the TV it’s most likely on NetFlix or some stuff that I’ve (admittedly probably illegally) downloaded - mostly as a convenience more than an unwillingness to pay for it (in those instances where there is even a reasonable option to pay for it other than using cable).
Also the lost art of the TV show theme song.
Where are all the great theme songs like for “The Rockford Files” back in the day. Now they just pop in some Who song, or some such.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Streaming Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, Roku, Firestick.
Haven’t watched 20th century TV in many moons.
Don’t miss it a bit.
An acutal decent episode. Most were crap. I had nit-picks about it though (like most episodes). For example, why was it so hard to retrieve data on their time? I know there were supposed “wars” in the late 20th early 21st century (Kahn was a product of those wars) but it was the early 24th century and I would have thought they’d piece together more past information.
Also, I thought it was stupid to put the three survivors on a long 4 month space trip before getting back to earth. I would have thought they’d want them back asap.
There are already a number of shows on cable which closely approximate “Ow, My Balls!”
aw shucks, thnx brah :)
Not a lot of TV content was on the web even then. I’m like you...we were watching a small TV with an antenna we put in the break room on 9-11.
Can’t even use an antenna any longer.
How about, "I shot mine?"
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We have had no cable for a couple of years until recently when our internet provider offered us a deal we could not pass up on. Much faster connection and basic cable but we ended up paying less.
We get like 20 channels we've had it 2 months and I think we have watched 2 NFL games and that is it. I can't stand it. We have NFL Gamepass via the internet which gives us all the NFL games on Demand just shortly after they air save for the late night games which are the next day. It has ruined me. Watching an NFL game without commercials and then trying to watch one loaded down with them just drives me crazy. Same goes for regular TV shows. We watch them all via the internet now. Most have no commercials whatsoever and if they do it is maybe 4 or 5 in an hour show. Most TV shows now have that many in 10 minutes.
I am done with broadcast TV. I just can't stand the relentless commercials especially when they show the same ones every 10 minutes.
Ad Age
That is the problem.
I find many times I either DVR or decide not to watch something because of the number of commercials.
I have become used to the lack of commercials with Starz and HBO and Netflix. Why spend 3 hours watchng a movie that is actually only about 2 hours long? Or 41-minute TV programs expanded to an hour with commercials?
The ad-based entertainment industry is losing. They try to apply the same ad-based formulas to the Web, but that just doesn’t work.
How will new program development get financed in the future?
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