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Have DVDs Changed Your Viewing Habits?

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EZway2go

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I buy entire season DVDs of my favorite shows. But I still find myself tuning into MeTV and AntennaTV to watch many of these shows—commercials and all— even though I have them on DVD. Does anyone else do this, or do you strictly watch your DVDs?

For those who do have entire season DVDs (and actually watch them ;)), do you watch the episodes in order or jump around? I just don't have the time to watch all of them, so as infrequently as I do, I would never remember where I left off. So I came up with the goofy habit of watching DVD episodes as close to possible to their original air dates. (Nostalgia gone overboard).
 
I have loads of old TV shows on DVD, including the entire run of many, like The Twilight Zone, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Car 54,Where Are You?, The Gene Autry Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, I Love Lucy, most Perry Masons, etc. I have a lot of Westerns, like Maverick, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Have Gun, Will Travel, Wagon Train, etc. I generally look at them in order. There are a lot of old shows on Netflix and Amazon Prime to stream like Leave It to Beaver, Dennis the Menace, Hawaii Five O, Murder She Wrote, Hercule Poirot, Emergency, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Columbo, The Andy Griffith Show, Suspense (the old late 40s TV show), Star Trek, Mission Impossible, The Bionic Woman, Adam 12, Dragnet (both 50s and 60s), The Munsters, Ozzie and Harriet, etc., etc.

I generally don't look at anything but streaming and DVD. I understand that ClassicFlix is going to start streaming soon, but I don't know what it will cost. Netflix is eight dollars a month. Amazon Prime is 71 dollars a year. With that, you get a lot of shows free. Also, with Prime, most of what you buy from Amazon is shipped free and with 2 day shipping, so you generally save or break even. Also no taxes.
 
Having DVDs of TV programs is good for watching specific episodes, watching episodes at your own convenience, and for times when the programs are no longer scheduled to be televised (depending on your area). There is nothing wrong with your watching the episodes you own on TV being televised.

Personally I had watched all of the episodes of "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show" on the DVDs released by Shout Factory in no particular order. I skipped some episodes listed in the menus for the DVDs after having seen them many times from VHS recordings in order to view episodes I had not seen in years or episodes I had never seen before. As for my viewings of "The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog" on the DVDs released by Shout Factory, I watched every episode in the order they were presented in the menus for the DVDs before reviewing episodes in no particular order.

If I had DVDs sets for serialized programs such as "Dark Shadows", I would view and review every episode of each set in order of their episode numbers. "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show" was not serialized like "Dark Shadows", since the animated segments and live-action segments of each show did not connect each other to form a continuous. As for "The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog", it had a few serialized episodes in between episodes that were not serialized.
 
No, but DVRs certainly have. Though I could record and time-shift programs back in the early 80s with my VCR, I had gotten out of the habit - between the time it took to program the timer, buy blank tapes, label the tape, store the tape, etc - it just got to be too much trouble. Now I'm back to time-shifting practically everyting except live sports events.

Though I watch DVDs from Netflix, and my own home movies (mostly converted from VHS), I never purchased a recordable DVD. The DVR allows me to time-shift and skip commercials, and there's rarely anything on "live" TV that I want to save for posterity.
 
Having DVD's of your favorite shows are well worth it since they are for the most part unedited and no commercials. You can even follow what they edit on TV Land or any other channel because in what they take out changes the whole focus of the episode entirely or dropping certain jokes or complete conversations.

And also you get a complete series of shows that have been picked over in syndication like Hawaii Five-O (the 1968-1980 version) and Mannix. Every episode of Hawaii Five-O is on DVD now except for the 1970 episode "Bored, She Hung Herself" as well as Mannix since the 1967-1968 season was completely eliminated from syndication as well as certain episodes from the 1973-1974 season and the entire last season.

And I would definitely like to see the Bob Crane episodes of The Donna Reed Show on DVD from seasons 6 and season 7 as I probably believe that these episodes have not been seen in syndication in years.
 
Not really because a lot of the TV I watch is an "impulse buy" (sit down on the couch after dinner and just peruse
what's on, or turn on the TV during a half-hour break from doing chores). Not a lot of appointment viewing at our
house, unless it's sports.
 
For the few shows where I have the complete run, I tend to watch in order. Still watch other shows on TV as well.
I really want the complete series of "Topper" and "Petticoat Junction". For P.J., I've only found the first 2 seasons on DVD. I've recorded some of the final 4 seasons off of MeTV. I had an interesting experience trying to buy what was said to be the entire "Petticoat Junction" series, but will save that story for another thread, as I will be interested if others have had similar experiences.
 
DVDs have not killed TV in our house. I do watch some DVDs and VHS tapes (movies) but no TV shows on DVD here. Lots of home-recorded VHS tapes (movies + TV shows), but I usually get those for the commercials.

-crainbebo
 
johnbasalla said:
"Petticoat Junction". For P.J., I've only found the first 2 seasons on DVD. I've recorded some of the final 4 seasons off of MeTV. I had an interesting experience trying to buy what was said to be the entire "Petticoat Junction" series, but will save that story for another thread, as I will be interested if others have had similar experiences.
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Only the first two seasons of Petticoat Junction are available:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/shows/Petticoat-Junction/3315

but there's a 50th anniversary collection coming out in March:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Petticoat-Junction-Return-to-Hooterville/17978
 
I enjoy using my DVDs to try and recreate old "TV days". In other words, I try to play a DVD of a given show at the same time of the day when it was first on and pretend that I'm back then. Like, for example, if 4 Star Playhouse was on on Tuesday nights at 8: pm, I would play a DVD of one on a Tuesday night and be back in 1958. I really havn't been interested in any show since about 1965.
 
Michael Bayus said:
I enjoy using my DVDs to try and recreate old "TV days". In other words, I try to play a DVD of a given show at the same time of the day when it was first on and pretend that I'm back then. Like, for example, if 4 Star Playhouse was on on Tuesday nights at 8: pm, I would play a DVD of one on a Tuesday night and be back in 1958. I really havn't been interested in any show since about 1965.
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To help recreate that era, you could put the remote away, then get up every hour or so to change the channel, and also get up every 10 minutes to pretend to fuss with the vertical hold. No wonder Americans were in better physical shape then. We had to get up and walk to the TV.

And you could smoke a couple of Winston's. They taste good, like a cigarette should. ;D
 
^Not every person in the present time would know how a cigarette "should taste" because more persons are less likely to ever smoke a cigarette due to their knowledge of how cigarette smoking can be detrimental to the health of a person.
 
that and Video On Demand (from the cable company). After all, why get up at 8:30 on Saturday and watch Pokemon on Cartoon Network or Miss Hawaii Five-O and Pawn Stars because WWE Raw is on at the same time.
 
Mario-500 said:
^Not every person in the present time would know how a cigarette "should taste" because more persons are less likely to ever smoke a cigarette due to their knowledge of how cigarette smoking can be detrimental to the health of a person.
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But this isn't the present time, Mario.   It's 1965.  

Chill out and light a Winston.   Everybody's doing it, even Fred & Barney.....

http://youtu.be/WWoYasP_nmQ

--Russell
 
Russell W. said:
Mario-500 said:
^Not every person in the present time would know how a cigarette "should taste" because more persons are less likely to ever smoke a cigarette due to their knowledge of how cigarette smoking can be detrimental to the health of a person.
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But this isn't the present time, Mario. It's 1965.

Chill out and light a Winston. Everybody's doing it, even Fred & Barney.....

http://youtu.be/WWoYasP_nmQ

--Russell
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Correct. In 1965, it wasn't "proven" that cigarettes caused lung diseases and cancer - at least not according to the tobacco companies, who called the research "flawed" until they finally admitted it in the 80s or 90s.

So people like my mother could smoke away in blissful (self-imposed) ignorance.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
My girlfriend loves DVD's because there are (usually) no commercials.
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Sometimes I'm actually disappointed at the lack of commercials. ;) That gets in the way of properly channeling the whole "watch it as if you were in 1965" experience.

And no, I'm not making fun of it. Fact is, while I've never "recreated" a lineup by year and/or night from my copies of old 16mm kines or VTRs, I've been sorely tempted more than once.

I've noticed that some of the old DVD sets do contain a few "cast commercials" in the special features section. That's a nice touch, but what a cool thing it would be to have both ... much in the way some DVD movies allow the viewer to select the fullscreen/pan-scan or original widescreen versions. Route 66 -- "with original Chevrolet commercials" or "without"

Yeah, yeah, I know: too many legalistic hurdles, and - I suspect - not enough of a genuine interest in the mass market.

--Russell
 
Way to go Russell! I have posted about this on it's own thread, but here we go again! I think that it would be nice to have a box-set of DVDs that would recreate a day of television including IDs, News, Meditations, sign-on and sign-off. Something like the America Before TV set of airchex from WJSV in 1939. You put the first one in at 6: AM., and take the last one out at 1: AM. the next morning.
Those of us who are old enough would remember, and those of us who are not would learn.
 
At one time Shokus Video had DVD sets that had the equivalent of an evening of prime time TV with ads, although they may have not been totally accurate. I didn't see anything like that on their website now, but they had shows with the ads included. Most of their stuff is PD material though. Their website is http://shokus.com, although they don't look like they have been updated in years.

On the subject of cigarette ads, it always gets me where they will make claims like "More doctors smoke Camels." ::) :p
 
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