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Have DVDs Changed Your Viewing Habits?

I generally only watch Reality Competition shows, such as Big Brother (and I watch the live feed); The Amazing Race; Survivor; The Biggest Loser; and the singing competitions. I am also watching Canucks games, now that the lock-out is over ::) The only time I watch DVDs of TV shows, is during the Christmas season, when I watch their Christmas episodes.
 
Michael Bayus said:
I thought they were out of business.
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That's what I'm guessing. I can't remember the last time I received any kind of mailing from Shokus Video. My favorites were the "secret" sales flyers, the ones with tapes not available on the general website. That, for me, is where the real goodies were.

I miss them.

--Russell
 
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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That's a great idea and one I've been thinking of doing with a coupl of DVDs in my collection. I just put in an order for the four Ed Sullivan shows with The Beatles. I'm planning on starting the first show a week from Saturday (2/9/2013) at precisely 8:00. This has the commercials included. Another idea is running the New Year's Eve broadcast of "The Tonight Show" from 1965 at 11:15 some year at December 31st from the Johnny Carson box set.

It funny how DVDs have made a lot of old shows readily available to us. I can remember either staying home to catch and episode of "Moonlighting" or a great movie of the week on tape or setting it on the VCR. The thought was these shows wouldn't be shown again. I've bought the DVD collections, but the nice thing with the videotapes is that commercials were included on them. That is if you didn't hit the pause button during the spot breaks. Sometimes the commercials are fun to watch.
 
Old TV advertisements (commercials) can be fun to watch sometimes years after recording them, either intentionally or unintentionally.
 
The most fun I ever had watching TV was during the live feeds of sports or variety events. The mics would be left open and the cameras rolling. It's a wonder most of those announcers didn't get fired along the way.
 
Mario-500 said:
Old TV advertisements (commercials) can be fun to watch sometimes years after recording them, either intentionally or unintentionally.
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When I first got a VCR in the '80s, I used to record and keep special events and big news stories. If I watched live, I would hit the pause button during the commercial breaks. But if I used the timer, I would copy the show onto a permanent tape and edit out the commercials.

In 1986 I recorded the centennial celebration for the Statue of Liberty. Since it was an all-day event, there was at least one channel with continuous coverage, so I just left the VCR on with the intention of copying the highlights onto my permanent tape later. Well, it was so long, I kept putting it off and never got around to editing it. Now here we are almost 27 years later and I still have that original tape—commercials and all still intact. Six straight hours of unedited broadcast history... now that one's worth keeping.
 
I've got tons of late 1980s VHS tapes chock full of commercials. Movies and TV shows. Maybe I'll post them to YouTube sometime.

-crainbebo
 
F.M.Hertz said:
I just put in an order for the four Ed Sullivan shows with The Beatles. 
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If it's the set that I'm thinking of (I found it at Walgreen's a couple of years ago), it has all the commercials included. 


Wait.  Let me correct myself: MOST of the commercials intact.  Except the Kent Cigarette commercials are MIA.  Hmmm....

Much as I loathe smoking, or even breathing it second-hand, it really bothered me.  That was part of history. 

I gave the set to my college-age son, who loves The Beatles; I'll stick with my multigenerational copies that are 100% intact. 

--Russell
 
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