Regular definition old tv series going the way of black and white?

[techs]

I still remember truly excellent shows like Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere, yet you can barely find them in reruns anymore.

For years you could find I Love Lucy in black and white reruns. Nowadays not much.

I think the same thing is happening to standard def. shows.

It's a shame.

Just sayin...

 

[RadiclDreamer]

I still have an SD set, all of my sets are SD, I really dont watch enough TV to justify the investment at the moment

 

[Modelworks]

Here in NC I get a channel OTA that is called RTV. They show all the old shows. The daytime line up on there is ironsides, Quincy ME, Emergency, Kojak, Magnum PI, A-Team, Daniel Boone,


This is their site, might have a station near you
http://www.myretrotv.com/index2.html

 

[HannibalX]

Do you get ION? Most of their programming seems to be 80s shows.

 

[GT1999]

Upconversion FTW.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Here in NC I get a channel OTA that is called RTV. They show all the old shows. The daytime line up on there is ironsides, Quincy ME, Emergency, Kojak, Magnum PI, A-Team, Daniel Boone,


This is their site, might have a station near you
http://www.myretrotv.com/index2.html

Heh, that is the only station I watch anymore (don't miss cable one bit).

 

[Modelworks]

Heh, that is the only station I watch anymore (don't miss cable one bit).

Yeah I cut off my satellite. I thought I would miss it at first, but after a bit of watching OTA channels I realized that I really wasn't missing anything. I went over a friends house that has all the cable channels and flipping through it, it was still the same crap that was on there months ago in different time slots. waste of money for me.

 

[JTsyo]

Would think netflix would have many of the on demand.

 

[Queasy]

I'm still wondering how much longer it will be until dish/cable providers stop charging us extra for HD.

 

[mugs]

It has nothing to do with standard definition and everything to do with how appealing they are as syndicated shows. There are a lot of standard definition shows still in syndication.

 

[aldamon]

I'm still wondering how much longer it will be until dish/cable providers stop charging us extra for HD.

Forever. They'll just roll the HD charge into the standard package price.

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.highdefdiscnews.com/?p=26162
they will if restored look better than they ever did, so much better than their original broadcast its mind blowing.