06-20-2019, 10:19 PM
Apparently that was also the days before the cable movie channels existed. Tons of movies on network TV. Now you almost never see movies on the big four (used to be the big three until they created the Fox network).
I actually found myself in that situation last night. I was watching the movie Arrival on SciFy. Had it buffered about a half hour behind on my DVR. I had to step out for a bit and when I returned and tried to rewind to where I left off, my DVR puked and jumped ahead to live TV with some message that attempted to seem helpful with my only option for response being "OK", even though I was most certainly not OK with it dumping the buffer. It seems to do that far too often and it really pisses me off.
Anyway, even though I had already seen the movie, I wanted to rewatch a certain scene. I tried Hulu, nope. I tried Prime, nope. And it wasn't being rebroadcast any time soon.
3d wrote:
No VCR, no DVR, no HULU, no On Demand, No pause.
You had one shot to watch it. And that's it.
I actually found myself in that situation last night. I was watching the movie Arrival on SciFy. Had it buffered about a half hour behind on my DVR. I had to step out for a bit and when I returned and tried to rewind to where I left off, my DVR puked and jumped ahead to live TV with some message that attempted to seem helpful with my only option for response being "OK", even though I was most certainly not OK with it dumping the buffer. It seems to do that far too often and it really pisses me off.
Anyway, even though I had already seen the movie, I wanted to rewatch a certain scene. I tried Hulu, nope. I tried Prime, nope. And it wasn't being rebroadcast any time soon.