It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing

Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by WalterBright on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:46PM (#29284519)

My dad recorded many made-for-TV movies in the 1980s. These movies exist on IMDB, but nowhere else. I wonder why TV networks don't make their back catalog available.

After all, TCM seems to do well running their back catalog of movies.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by bacchusracine on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:30PM (#29312328)

>My dad recorded many made-for-TV movies in the 1980s. These movies exist on IMDB, but nowhere else.

Dear Lord, this! This!

I would dearly love to be able to get a good copy of Love is Never Silent with working subtitles but sadly since it was a Hallmark made for television movie it's simply not available to me. There are certainly others like that, half remembered movies that I'd watched in my youth that would be worth revisiting as an adult or to share with others but they're simply unavailable except through IMDB to remind myself that I didn't imagine them, they do exist.

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