do you remember when ...

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Originally Posted by ceebee23

This week's example of why I buy DVDs to watch television rather than the networks is a classis one.

Our network 9 here has the rights to the mega HBO/BBC series ROME.

First they cut scenes and combine episodes to fit one and a half hours into one hour and then they pull the series after two episodes.

Is it any wonder people are turning off network television to spend time on the internet or watching DVDs!

On a happier note, as a teen in the late 60s I saw, and was blown away by, a British televison series called "The Caesars" in living black and white. (It is similar to the very well known BBC series of the 70s "I Claudius").

It disappeared...the tapes were lost or erased ...all that remained were kinescopes. I am not sure if it 625 or 405 line.

Now the series has been put on DVD. it will be interesting to see how the series stands up after all these years.

Oh dear is this nostalgia setting in...

I remember a time before the advent of colour television when the TV networks would at tell you when when a series is finished & ad's were always shown where the producers wanted them. TV shows always started at the published time in TV guides where as today the TV guide is more like a TV guess as shows are staggered to start anywhere from 5 - 30 mins from those published times, The only shows that start on time are news programs. TV shows are now edited to allow at least 15 mins of ads in every hour, TV shows used to be at least 50 mins in duration (Without ads) & now they are about 42 mins. There was a time when late night TV there was actually programs, Now there is infomercials or quizshows that are financed by calling a 1900 number to get on air.