Its so cool that now with streaming we can watch trek on dedicated channels 24 hrs a day. Just watched minageri pt 1 and 2 on pluto. Its all fee also!
OTS streaming 24 hrs a day.
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The at-will availability today contrasts wildly with one lean period I remember. I was obsessed with Star Trek, but the VCR was a thing of the future for me, and for some reason no local station was running the show at all.
The only way to see it: a distant Canadian station was airing it once a week on Saturday morning. Scarcity made the show all the more important. Missing it was a big deal.
Now there's no such thing as "missing the show." You don't wait for it, it waits for you. Whole different feeling.
I agree 100%! I remember those days also. Im retired now, i watch ALL the old shows now. Been on a Hunter beinge.
In capitalist America, show waits for you. What a country!
—Lt. Smirnoff
I recall a time in the latter 70s when it was considered a major event for a local affiliate (WCTV serving south Georgia and north Florida) to air 3, maybe 4 episodes back to back starting around midnight on a Friday or Saturday. I never had the stamina to stay awake to catch any of those random marathons, but I thought it was fantastic a station would do that. Nowadays, most of us would react, "Meh, whatever..."
Exactly! Kids today have everything at there finger tips! Wish we would have that growing up!
Pluto has all the trek series and movies each with a dedicated channel. Was just watching TOS channel. Paramount + has them also but only with a subscription.
Thing I've noticed with Pluto, is that it will stop after a while. ROKU will play until the apocalypse.
Yep I've got multiple Plex playlists. Star Trek favorites, Star Trek in production order, Star Trek with NBC commercials, my own "broadcast day" lineups where I recreated local station programming for fun,Thing I've noticed with Pluto, is that it will stop after a while. ROKU will play until the apocalypse.
The Roku channel is a feed from the Star Trek channel on Paramount's free Pluto streaming service.
Pluto also has a dedicated Deep Space Nine Channel as well as a Star Trek Voyager Channel.
Yes, and I have paramont+ it has all trek. I love having access to all of them!
Same with Bond films—had to wait two years for ABC to show the last one while the new one was in theaters. Trek Movies too. ABC had the best picture.
OT…NBC always looked a bit…yellow to me. Why was that?
CBS was darker.
All three network affiliates were bright and clear for us, no yellow, but for some reason I could never put my finger on, I could always tell from the picture which of them was on. There must have been some faint tell in there, even with seemingly perfect reception. But I don't see a difference in digital broadcast era.
Related: when I think back on old TV shows and made for TV movies, I always remember which network they were on.
And for different— but equally subtle— reasons, you could often tell if a TV movie had come out of Universal, Warner Bros., or Paramount. I just can't say why.
Universal had a house style, so they shared directors and DPs across their productions. They also had a standardized credit font for a lot of shows and movies. 20th Century Fox also had a house style I can recognize, mostly set pieces and sound design. I imagine all of the big studios had their own style that could be recognized if you watched enough of their output. In the 50's, WB would kick off with a really self-inflating intro with the WB logo and fanfare, a shot of the studio and an announcer bragging about it being a Warner Bros. production. To this day, that is so off-putting, I don't watch further
I kinda miss the days of having to wait for movies and shows to roll around. Today, the ability to access when we want removes some of what made it all so special.
My house is 40 miles from NYC, which should have meant equally strong signals for each network, but the further down the dial we went, the worse the signal got. Channel 11 was strong, but Channel 2 was ghosty. Even we we got cable, that pattern remained. Finally, with the advent of fiberoptics, all of our pictures were equal.
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