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Not everything can be that good, unfortunate.

There have never been too many Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or StarTrek Voyager.

But Netflix has still lots of other shows to over. They just have all Star Trek series. They buyout really good shows (Like Black Mirror) and there catalog is only growing.

That for only 10,- Euros. Spotify costs me the same!

I bought DVDs and rented VHSrs before. I don't mind paying it to Netflix and other Streaming services instead.

I do believe that the quality and availability got higher and the prices are cheaper than ever.

And btw. for a german person, it is the first time ever that i can watch it all in the OV. Even when you had something similiar to a usa cable subscription, you could not switch the language. Now its a nobrainer.

Glories Times :-)

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There was a ton of "made for TV" content in the 70's and 80's, for example, TV movies. It has all vanished. It's not even on imdb.com. I wonder why nobody is streaming it.

On the other hand, I've noticed that record companies are reaching further and further into their back catalogs, even going back into the 1950s, and re-releasing on CDs long unavailable stuff.

(I notice this because I often buy thrift store records, wondering what is on them. There are some really nice forgotten gems.)

I tried watching the first season of Star Trek TNG recently and couldn't get through two episodes. Things get dated I guess.

I don't think good music ever gets old.

I like the old TOS with its campiness, but even when TNG was new I found it unwatchable.

In general, though, TV shows don't age well. Even Mission Impossible from the 60's, well regarded at the time, looks silly today.

The later seasons are still very watchable, in my opinion.

This isn't a show that is well-served by sequential viewing.

Try the Best of Both Worlds two-parter.

We rewatching Voyager and it is still great.

When we rewatched Stargate SG1 just a few years ago, i was surprised how good it still is.

TNG isn't really watchable until Riker gets his beard (around season 2).

There is a bit of it on Youtube. Have you looked much there?

Even things like 'Der Fahnder' a German TV cop show. Some episodes of The Rockford Files are there. Some Barney Miller.

I've seen a few low quality VCR rips of some old shows on youtube. Anything from a VCR from those days will be pretty poor.

> They just have all Star Trek series.

That was the reason I subscribed all those years ago. They also had Star Trek movies (the pre-JJAbrams ones), but now they're gone.

This is a huge problem with Netflix for me. Things are there today for me to watch, but they're gone the next week, just when I wanted to show them to my wife.

I think Amazon Prime has them now, or was it Hulu. So frustrating.

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