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  • Yep I grew up on amazing reruns of tv from wayyyyy before my time. It’s hard for me to find it to watch today. And surely my kids will not even have the opportunity. The thought kills me.

    I think the BBC or CBC archives are interesting. It’s also interesting to hear about what they lost due to lack of preservation from previous times.


  • Sometimes I think with the way everything is being digitized but how you need to pay to store it… That likely we’re losing more cultural content today than ever before. Just think about all the tv shows from the 90s you can’t watch anymore. No dvd, no stream, just … Forgotten. Some things we produce today don’t even have a physical tangible form unless you’re talking about some hard drive in the cloud.

    It also gives me a sense of existential dread. Or the sense of permanent loss.








  • Specifically my report from 2006 notes a lack of critical studio and manufacturer support for HDDVD. To create the bluray standard, many studios and manufactures worked together to create the format, where HD-DVD had a much smaller group of people onboard from the get-go.

    Additionally, the sony support of BluRay in the PS3 at effectively no cost to the consumer meant that such a large population would have the required equipment on hand.

    Blurway also had a higher density disc, which was critical to the longevity of the platform.

    My report didnt actually cover licensing, so i am definitely mis-remembering on that.





  • I like em cuz you get a bunch of character backstory, motivation, and psychology. Like even Picard the leader and odo the fearless have people they run from.

    Personally I liked DS9 for the humanizing aspects of the series. In TNG the crew were put on pedestals. Paragons of the alpha quadrant. In ds9 characters were inherently flawed and the more you watched the more real they got.

    I think moving from a purely episodic TNG to a more arching series like DS9 made these “filler” episodes more valuable to the series.