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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | I brought Homicide Life on the Streets among other shows so I can have my own mega-a-thon showing instead of waiting for holidays etc for station to play 24 hours of whatever show I like.
So now I can waste a day and watch a whole series at once!! The good part no ads!!! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I love collecting TV Series... I am now currently collecting 148 different series... of those 148... I have 61 series completed. I like if for a few reasons... - No Commercials - Marathons - scheduling (watch what I want... when I want) - The Extras shows insight into the series that you wouldn't normally have My favorite thing lately about collecting series is actually being able to complete the series... as I said... I have 61 completed series in my collection now. At the beginning of this year... I set myself a goal to have 65 series completed (I just barely made last years goal of 50 before this one)... hopefully I shouldn't have any trouble getting the final 4 series completed this year. I already pre-ordered the last season of Charmed... so that helps.  | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | WOW! I am still holding out hope Extreme makeeover: home edition will make it on DVD. I seen a marathon 4-5 months back on ABC Family channel so that gives me hope. edit: Just for the hell of it I typed that in over at DVDtalk.com and found this!! Season 1 for $30 YEA!! | | | | Last edited: by Randall_Lind |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 4,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | I like to watch tv shows on dvd becourse there are no commercial breaks, i like to watch a few eps in a row so that i don't have to wait a whole week to watch one ep...  | | | | Registered: July 7 2000 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,005 |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 254 |
| | Posted: | | | | I buy alot of the HBO shows on DVD just because they are generally really good shows, and I don't subscribe to HBO so it's my only opportunity to see them. Although I think, at this point, it might have been cheaper for me to subscribe to HBO than to buy all the dvd's I've bought from them... hmmm... | | | | "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 291 |
| | Posted: | | | | greetings tv lubbers. i collect them for many of the same reasons. NO Commercials NO banner or flying ads telling me what I'm watching or what's on next (although watching some shows through broadcast hd eliminates this--in a related rant, i change the channel the minute one of these talking walking dancing irritating ads comes on screen...do these networks think we really want to have stuff interrupted this way? anyone for an email campaign...but we digress...). NO network/show logos in the corner (new trend here--actually put the name of the show with the network logo so you don't forget what you're looking at). NO SciFi channel explosions telling me about their next big event while i'm trying to enjoy the current big event (yes, it is repetition, but i hate them). NO editing for juvenile and puritanical broadcast standards plus, it's great to just pop an Inspector Morse into the player and see John Thaw in his prime again...along with countless others in those vintage series. oh yeah...and we an casa krik like to own things. krik | | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi guys, I'm glad I'm not the only one with the same addiction. I like television shows, and owning them on DVD gives you all the advantages mentioned before. There is one big advantage nobody mentioned before. That's unannounced changes in broadcast schedules. I usually don't read tv guides, so I probably will not notice the network changed their schedule. The last show I tried watching was Alias a few years back. After a month or 2 the network changed their hours 4 or 5 times, so I missed half of the first season. So I stopped watching TV Series on TV, and just watch them on DVD. No commercials, better image and sound quality, and I watch when I want. Btw, I'm starting with "The Simpsons Season 1" today Greetz | | | View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Not that I don't own many recent TV shows on DVD, but I prefer the older shows: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Cheyenne, Date with the Angels, Disneyland, Dragnet, Ernie Kovacs, Have Gun Will Travel, Jack Paar, Leave It to Beaver, Life with Elizabeth, Love That Bob, Maverick, Mickey Mouse Club, Mr. Peepers, My Hero, One Step Beyond, Ozzie & Harriet, Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Private Secretary, Richard Diamond, Robin Hood, Roy Rogers, Science Fiction Theatre, Superman, The Third Man, Wagon Train, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Wyatt Earp, Zorro, and other from the 1950s which rarely get shown on TV any more at all.
I want more of Maverick and Wyatt Earp, and the additional two seasons of Spin & Marty, and just much more of the TV I grew up with... | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,744 |
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| Registered: July 10, 2007 | | Posts: 6 |
| | Posted: | | | | Agree with all the others. And think that TV shows are more innovative than most Hollywood releases - so it makes sense to watch and collected certain TV shows. | | | | A smoking section in a bar is just as stupid as a peeing section in a swimmingpool |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
What is there more to say than to agree with addicted, tom and krik? Agreeing with them as well  | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | The sets for old shows allow me to see things that aren't necessarily broadcast anymore (as Vibrocount mentioned). Sets for newer shows allow me to pass on watching them now so I can watch other things. Particularly with serial shows, if you miss a show, it throws you off track. So I just wait for the DVD set... | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,022 |
| | Posted: | | | | My name is Richard and I am a television series collecting addict  | | |  |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 153 |
| | Posted: | | | | i love to collect TV series well ones i like anyway that way theres no ads and you can watch them all at once if you want a weekend-a-thon i recently had a Babylon 5 - a - thon with a few mates it took 3 weeks to watch all 5 seaons, the five movies nad crusade the spin off thats watching about 5-6 episodes a day we lived on pizza, pot noodles, water and cola it weas great then we all went to memorabilia UK at the NEC and met Mira Furlan - aka Delann it was great fun | | | regards
rorschach999
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| Registered: June 22, 2007 | | Posts: 42 |
| | Posted: | | | | The biggest reason for me that has not been mentioned is; to watch what slipped by quietly and you missed. I lived overseas for about 8 years and didn’t know anything about B5 or Firefly – except they were gone. Firefly led to Buffy (kinda backwards.) I have enjoyed B5 and Firefly more than any other tv shows. (NEW B5 dvd out this month 2007/07 !!!!) One other note to make about TV shows on DVD is repetition. I started watching Xena, but it became too irritating with the long intro (very nice intro, but I sooooo wanted to skip past it after the 4th or 5th show with no week to month in between viewings.) After watching the first season I couldn’t watch the second, as skip put you past several of the opening plot elements in addition to the opening sequence. So please TV show makers, put in a skip past the into, I’d rebuy Xena and watch that version . Another point is false starts. I started watching several shows that got cancelled quickly. It was very disappointing. With a DVD I know, hey, here is a season – no cancellations! New shows I look forward to getting on DVD are Dresden, and the new Sookie Stackhouse show this fall! | | | | Last edited: by roflmao |
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