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Originally Posted by Catlady
Lost nothing of value?
Then: Playhouse 90, Twilight Zone, U.S. Steel Hour, Bonanza, Combat!, The Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore.
Now: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
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Anybody holding a gun to your head to make you watch that?
Or GAME OF THRONES, ARROW, SHERLOCK, HOUSE OF CARDS, DOWNTON ABBEY, LONGMIRE, for that matter.
And, last I looked all those listed shows, mine and yours (except maybe US STEEL HOUR) are available today and watchable by anybody who, ahem, takes the time to find them. Most can be purchased at low cost, too.
http://www.idealog.com/blog/anybody-...ooks-at-least/
So, excuse me, but I'll stand my ground; nothing of value has been lost.
We're not quite yet at the Qwest ad stage of "every movie, every TV show, in every language" but we've made a pretty darn good start.
My own DVD library is nowhere as extensive as my pbook accumulation but it's deep enough I can watch SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND, BABYLON 5, DRESDEN FILES, CASABLANCA, WIZARD OF OZ, GONE WITH THE WIND, the PRISONER, THE CHAMPIONS, the TRINITY movies, BITE THE BULLET and UNFORGIVEN as well as BLAZING SADDLES and even WACKY RACES among the assorted video on my shelves, whenever I choose to. And that is without counting what I can tune in with the TV from Hulu, Netflix, CRACKLE, Amazon Prime, Crunchyroll or XBOX Video. (Last week I called up the Julia Child TV series for my sister the chef. Just to make this very point.)
And from time to time I do choose to sit and watch stuff like ENDGAME or THE BOOTH AT THE END in between reads and runs whacking loaders on Pandora. Just to see what they're like. (shrug)
I *like* the 21st century. It's not where I'd like it yet but...
...we're getting there.
So far, the future hasn't shocked me yet.