Antenna TV

[1960'sTVfan]

Originally Posted by OH Nuts!

Maybe if I’m up to it I’ll count exactly how many DVDs I have. Honestly between what I’ve burnt and what have in sets, I probably have more than a lifetime’s worth of viewing. I’m guessing between 1,200-1,500.

I don't know exactly how many DVD's I have. I think the number might be around 1,000 but that's just a rough estimate.

[Schmoopie]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

Awww, Cattyrule, would you like to borrow my crying towel? Spare me your oh so pwecious delicate feewings and then you proceed to call me!, of all people, a nasty wasty name. As Gomer would say, SHAME SHAME SHAME.

Wow, why are you being so rude??? And I'm just curious about how this thread got so off topic.
Anyway,I don't watch Hazel that much anyway, so I'm done.

[Hazel Anyday]

I can think of one advantage and only one advantage tapes have over DVDs. Esp. when it comes to watching TV episodes. When you watch a TV series from a tape when the episode you're watching is over you just turn off the player, leave the tape where it is (don't rewind) and then the next time you put that tape back in the VCR the very next episode is there all ready and cued up ready to play. My one and only problem with DVDs is that they do not keep your place. What I have to do today when watching TV series off DVD I use a small piece of scrap paper and mark a line every time I watch an episode, example a paper with 3 lines means the next time I watch that DVD go to the 4th episode on the DVD to continue the series. A DVD doesn't keep it's place like a tape would. I never had to mark lines when watching a tape, the next episode was ready to go without me having to remember what I watched last. Of course a big advantage a DVD has over a tape is if you want to watch a specific episode with a DVD you just go to it on the menu and hit play. But with a tape to try to find a specific episode, good luck, you had to guess how long to fast forward and then stop and play over and over till you finally found the one you want. It could take 5 minutes to find an episode. With a DVD it's just click and play.

(Funny thing, my Dad wasn't used to VHS tapes and when I gave him a bunch of Rockford Files tapes he would watch an episode then after he'd rewind the tape. Next time he put the tape in he'd watch that same episode over again. When I had asked him some time later after I gave him the tapes how he liked it? He said it was great except he only sees one episode. I said that's strange there are 6 episodes on the tape. Eventually I figured out he was rewinding the tape every time and didn't leave it in place to see the next episode. Also for some reason he hated DVDs, I could never get him to watch DVDs.)

[Hazel Anyday]

To Schmoozi, I'm never rude, I only suffer the slings and arrows from such as thee. I merely tell the truth. But I guess the truth can be "rude", life ain't pretty and neither is the cold hard truth.

[OH Nuts!]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

I can think of one advantage and only one advantage tapes have over DVDs. Esp. when it comes to watching TV episodes. When you watch a TV series from a tape when the episode you're watching is over you just turn off the player, leave the tape where it is (don't rewind) and then the next time you put that tape back in the VCR the very next episode is there all ready and cued up ready to play. My one and only problem with DVDs is that they do not keep your place. What I have to do today when watching TV series off DVD I use a small piece of scrap paper and mark a line every time I watch an episode, example a paper with 3 lines means the next time I watch that DVD go to the 4th episode on the DVD to continue the series. A DVD doesn't keep it's place like a tape would. I never had to mark lines when watching a tape, the next episode was ready to go without me having to remember what I watched last. Of course a big advantage a DVD has over a tape is if you want to watch a specific episode with a DVD you just go to it on the menu and hit play. But with a tape to try to find a specific episode, good luck, you had to guess how long to fast forward and then stop and play over and over till you finally found the one you want. It could take 5 minutes to find an episode. With a DVD it's just click and play.

(Funny thing, my Dad wasn't used to VHS tapes and when I gave him a bunch of Rockford Files tapes he would watch an episode then after he'd rewind the tape. Next time he put the tape in he'd watch that same episode over again. When I had asked him some time later after I gave him the tapes how he liked it? He said it was great except he only sees one episode. I said that's strange there are 6 episodes on the tape. Eventually I figured out he was rewinding the tape every time and didn't leave it in place to see the next episode. Also for some reason he hated DVDs, I could never get him to watch DVDs.)

Depends on your DVD player. Some can take you right where you left off. Mine isn’t that good, but can take me within 10 min. of where I left off. And use a fast advance selection to get me the rest of the way.

[MichaelKeith]

I am the original poster of this thread and I just happened to check it just now and am surprised at how many responses there have been. When I started this thread I certainly didn’t want to start any bad feelings. I do want to say thank you to Schmoopie and all the others who came to my defense.

I do own seasons 1-4 of Hazel on DVD, all bought brand new shortly after they came out because I really like this show. I chose not to purchase S5 because I always liked George and Dorothy better than the replacements. I was enjoying seeing S5 on Antenna tv until they took it off.

Since then I’ve been watching several of my other DVDs of shows such as Bonanza, The Fugitive, the Bob Newhart show and several others. But just because I own quite a few classic shows on dvd, I still enjoy watching them and others that I don’t own on TV! 😊

[OH Nuts!]

Originally Posted by MichaelKeith

I am the original poster of this thread and I just happened to check it just now and am surprised at how many responses there have been. When I started this thread I certainly didn’t want to start any bad feelings. I do want to say thank you to Schmoopie and all the others who came to my defense.

I do own seasons 1-4 of Hazel on DVD, all bought brand new shortly after they came out because I really like this show. I chose not to purchase S5 because I always liked George and Dorothy better than the replacements. I was enjoying seeing S5 on Antenna tv until they took it off.

Since then I’ve been watching several of my other DVDs of shows such as Bonanza, The Fugitive, the Bob Newhart show and several others. But just because I own quite a few classic shows on dvd, I still enjoy watching them and others that I don’t own on TV! 😊

Well that just goes to show what a good thread it is. I have an old Analog TV with a converter box on top. 99.99% I watch Antenna TV on the TV. News & practically everything else I get through the Internet.

[Schmoopie]

Originally Posted by MichaelKeith

I am the original poster of this thread and I just happened to check it just now and am surprised at how many responses there have been. When I started this thread I certainly didn’t want to start any bad feelings. I do want to say thank you to Schmoopie and all the others who came to my defense.

I do own seasons 1-4 of Hazel on DVD, all bought brand new shortly after they came out because I really like this show. I chose not to purchase S5 because I always liked George and Dorothy better than the replacements. I was enjoying seeing S5 on Antenna tv until they took it off.

Since then I’ve been watching several of my other DVDs of shows such as Bonanza, The Fugitive, the Bob Newhart show and several others. But just because I own quite a few classic shows on dvd, I still enjoy watching them and others that I don’t own on TV! 😊

You're welcome! I don't blame you for not wanting to buy sets of seasons you don't like that much. I'm the same way.

[OH Nuts!]

Originally Posted by Schmoopie

You're welcome! I don't blame you for not wanting to buy sets of seasons you don't like that much. I'm the same way.

Yeah and S5 really JTS for me. No George & Dorothy = much duller show.

[MichaelKeith]

Originally Posted by Schmoopie

You're welcome! I don't blame you for not wanting to buy sets of seasons you don't like that much. I'm the same way.

Oh yes I prefer to buy individual seasons on dvd rather than season sets for the most part. For example, I have S1-7 of Bewitched but not S8 because I think it’s horrible. On the other hand I have the entire series sets of Leave it to Beaver and Get Smart.

[OH Nuts!]

Originally Posted by MichaelKeith

Oh yes I prefer to buy individual seasons on dvd rather than season sets for the most part. For example, I have S1-7 of Bewitched but not S8 because I think it’s horrible. On the other hand I have the entire series sets of Leave it to Beaver and Get Smart.

But sometimes the price for an entire set is so low, it’s cheaper to buy the set and just ignore the JTS eps.

WINGS is a good example. The whole series was $30.

[MichaelKeith]

Quote: (originally posted by Oh Nuts!)
But sometimes the price for an entire set is so low, it’s cheaper to buy the set and just ignore the JTS eps. WINGS is a good example. The whole series was $30.
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Totally agree, I like to save money as much as the next person. But what I did most of the time is to buy each season as soon as it was released because I wanted to build my DVD collection. And I'm happy with my collection. Like I said, I did get the complete series sets of Get Smart and Leave it to Beaver.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

I can think of one advantage and only one advantage tapes have over DVDs. Esp. when it comes to watching TV episodes. When you watch a TV series from a tape when the episode you're watching is over you just turn off the player, leave the tape where it is (don't rewind) and then the next time you put that tape back in the VCR the very next episode is there all ready and cued up ready to play. My one and only problem with DVDs is that they do not keep your place.

I have an older Sony DVD player that actually keeps your place AFTER you take the DVD out. It "knows" where it was, and the next time you put the DVD in, it resumes there. I wonder who thought this was a bad feature and ditched it.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Schmoopie

Wow, why are you being so rude??? And I'm just curious about how this thread got so off topic.
Anyway,I don't watch Hazel that much anyway, so I'm done.

Yes, Schmoopie (I love that name, I assume from Seinfeld) this thread went off the rails quite awhile ago. I don't moderate it but it should probably be moved to General Sitcoms.

To get back to Hazel I have seasons 1-4 on DVD but I never bothered with season 5. It's not bad but not worth a DVD price to me, unless they've really come down.

[Hazel Anyday]

I had a Sony player too till about a year or so ago when it just stopped working. It was old though. But yes, my Sony could hold it's place too. I read the Sony instructions and I remember it said it had a memory to hold the place of a DVD for every 12 different DVDs you put in. In other words the 13th DVD you put in the 1st DVD you had in will lose it's place. The memory for Sony lasted for every 12 DVDs after that it stopped. But my new DVD player is a cheap one and it's lousy, not just because it won't hold it's place but it won't even read 1/2 the discs I put in. And I'm talking about commercial DVDs (funnily enough it reads every DVD-R & DVD+R that I've made). Gomer Pyle, My 3 Sons, Seinfeld, many many others it won't read. Some commercial discs yes, even PAL commercial discs, yes, but 1/2 the NTSC discs I put in it won't read.