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Re:Netflix is getting huge, but can it get great? by rendaw on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:35AM (#16382625)
Thank you for that resource, but I think it validates the parent's post. I just searched for Miami Vice (the original) and got 0 results. A few years ago Hulu had everything except the first season (??).
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Re:Netflix is getting huge, but can it get great? by johnbatch on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:05AM (#16384030)
I use trakt.tv https://trakt.tv/shows/miami-vice looks like it’s on NBC.com for free. (At least in the US)

https://www.nbc.com/classic-tv/miami-vice

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Re:Netflix is getting huge, but can it get great? by newscracker on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:35PM (#16389889)
This comment nicely brings in the pain of geo-restrictions. There are services that would accept payments when done from the local country (say, with a billing address there), but wouldn't allow streaming for IP addresses believed to be somewhere else. And now the customer has to bother about getting a VPN service on top of streaming service subscriptions. This game that's being played, with "get this, and this, and this, and also that, plus something else", gets annoying quite fast.
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