We get METV through our antenna. We do not even have cable in Cathedral City (since we are there so seldom), and so we only watch whatever comes through the air, which is plenty. We also have two Blu-Ray players which can stream movies via Amazon Prime, if we want, but I also have a huge collection of DVDs - most of which are of TCM movies that I recorded on DVR and then put on DVD discs with a DVD recorder. I have hundreds of movies like that, plus a few other shows. We also have a large collection of DVDs that we bought plus quite a few Blu-Ray discs and a handful of 4K discs, but we only have a 4K player in L.A. I can't tell the difference between 4K discs and Blu-Ray, and so we mostly just get Blu-Ray.

Every so often I love me some Kojak. Also, The Saint. A young Roger Moore, plus the primitive production values are a hoot.

I loved the Thornbirds. My son bought me the videos for my Birthday one year. I haven't watched it in a long time but still love it.

I would love to watch the entire Madmen series from the beginning.

I can't tell the difference between 4K discs and Blu-Ray, and so we mostly just get Blu-Ray.

There's a noticeable difference between 4K and 1080p viewing. It's "Enhanced".

If your TV is 4K capable, and the Enhanced 4K setting is enabled in settings, you'll notice a big difference when viewing 4K broadcasts.

If your TV isn't 4K, the 4K player will simply pass 1080p to the TV. If your TV is 4K and the 4K player passes through an old technology receiver(not HDCP 2.2 capable) to the TV, the signal will pass through as 1080p. No enhancement.

Millions of TV buyers are greatly disappointed after buying a 4K TV only to discover their other equipment must be upgraded in order to enjoy 4K viewing.

The Thornbirds was so good, I’d love to see it again. Also Lonesome Dove

I have both a 4K TV and a 4K player. The receiver we have is newer than the TV, and we bought one that would be compatible with our 4K TV. Perhaps I need new glasses, but I already see more detail than I really want to see as it is. Our TV is only 65", and so that may be part of the problem, but we do not have room for a bigger TV, except in our second home.

Lars, sometimes clearer isn't better. I personally do not like that super clear, can see the pores in someone's face, type picture. So, we have our TV set on a different setting that doesn't look like that! We call that the Soap Opera effect, I don't like that!

Fun2BHere, what are the two Australian series you're enjoying on Youtube?

Lars, most 4K receivers and TV's require 4K features to be enabled during initial set-up. If your receiver is 4K compatible, the HDMI ports will be labeled HDCP 2.2.

To confirm 4K enhancement, press Display or Input button on remote.

TV size doesn't matter to 4K. Size does matter if the TV is too large for the viewing area. If you're seeing pores, you're sitting too close and/or the TV is too large for your viewing area. If your vision is as good as mine, you'll want to be 10-12' away.

Lars, "only" 65? :-)

I don't like a huge tv. I've seen them where I have to constantly move my head back and forth to see the whole picture.

Juneroses, I don't know what series Fun is watching (I hope she chimes in), but I'm enjoying 800 words and a friend recommended The Heart Guy about an Australian heart doctor.

I loved 800 words...the first time around anyway. One of the PBS stations

here has been playing it over and over. Loved "The Heart Guy"...the guy

you love to hate. Can't wait for the new series release. Watched The

Shawshank Redemption again...for about the 100th time, I guess. One of

my all-time favorite shows.

I agree MASH didn't age all that well. I used to love that show decades ago. I just watched a few episodes over a snowy weekend here in the Northeast, and it just wasn't as good as I remembered it. Some of the blatant sexism was almost cringe-worthy, for me. It's interesting to see how different our world is today vs. back then. I watched a few episodes and got my fill.

I LOVED Northern Exposure. I haven't thought of that show in ages.

I have re-watched (or in some cases saw for the first time) about every western series ever made in the 50's and 60's. Still in the process of watching The Virginian, there are lots of episodes of it. Gunsmoke...still love it.

I have seen every episode of Andy Griffith show ( especially the black and white ones) at least 2 or 3 times.

I love the old shows.

Shows or mini series? My mind drifted to North and South, and then Winds of War... I love it all. I not only rewatch old shows, I make my son watch them with me. P.S. I confused the Thorn Birds with Shogun, yet another miniseries.

I watch all the Star Trek shows over and over again - Voyager, Enterprise, TNG, DS9 and now we have Picard and Discovery.

I rewatch the movies as well. As well as Indiana Jones movies over and over again.

We have a lot of British series on DVD: the original (and much better) House of Cards with Ian Richardson; Tinker, Tailor with Alec Guinness; The Jewel in the Crown; Brideshead Revisited, etc. And not British, but with a number of British actors, The Wire, possibly the best thing ever made for TV. We've watched all of these multiple times.

We watch The Nanny every night. Most of it is still funny and the cast was wonderful. They look as if they had a pretty good time. It keeps us relaxed near bedtime.

@juneroses Z9a Cntrl Fl The two Australian series I watched were Sea Patrol and Rescue: Special Ops. These are not award-winning dramas, just easy-to-watch weekly serials. I like Sea Patrol best.

The new season of Heart Guy was so disappointing to me, and that's all I'll say. I think I only watched two or three shows.

I watch Steel Magnolias, the original one, every single time it's on. I actually have it recorded now. I love Golden Girls, watch it all the time.

I'm just kind of wondering why someone wouldn't watch old movies and TV shows? I mean, we listen to old music and read old books...right? There are many wonderful movies that were wonderful back in the 80's or whenever, they are mostly still great movies now! Some are dated by their lack of PC...watched some old Clint Eastwood movie from the 70's that was cringe worthy...HAHA! Things were just different back then...I guess people were less up-tight? HA!

I watch old shows all the time. My cable provider offers multiple channels that feature old TV series and movies and I have a couple of streaming services where I can find old movies as well.

If I liked the movie well enough the first time, I am almost certain to enjoy it again and I do have some faves that I will watch whenever I find them.

And to be honest, I find many of the older TV shows and series to be far superior than those being offered now. Ditto movies. I've seen several of the recent Academy Awards nominees and I really didn't care for any of them.

I watched the entire DickVanDyke shows and really enjoyed them. He was a genuine professional clown in a classic sense.

Hubs and I began watching Father Knows Best as a short night cap after the evening viewing. Talk about outdated notions! Every episode opens with the mother doing something intensely domestic. Father is not an enlightened fellow and junior is a real sexist jerk. The oldest daughter is the only bright light as she does pride herself on her academic success, yet she also longs for a man to take her away. The youngest child, another daughter, has gender identity issues and is a "tomboy". Then, there are guest minority roles played by painfully stereotypical actors in painfully stereotypical situations.

The sexist and racist white guys in the show are seemingly unaware of their own privilege and attitudes. Especially obnoxious are the college frat guys, the jocks and the empty headed females who pursue them. Talk about a group of jack asses! Still, it portrays the era, and the family have, basically, intact social values, just flavored by the times they lived in. it is a real period piece.

Neither I, nor Hubs, had a family like that. We were both solid working class and our dads only put on a suit for funerals. "Father" here wears his suit well into the evening while Mother sits on the couch with her mending basket. He reads the newspaper, but she just mends, or does some needlework. One time she got a job but quit because her family wanted her at home and another time she tried to go back to school but was put firmly in her place, back on the sofa or in the kitchen baking cookies, by her family who could not function without her.

One great episode is when Father bought Mother a new apron for her birthday. And, it was not a real working apron, either. It was not made of sturdy stuff with adjustable ties and great big pockets. It was a frilly little half number of chiffon and ruffles and you have to giggle to think just where Father would like for Mother to wear that little frilly apron. It was, obviously, no good for baking cookies or wrestling with holiday turkeys. Only the older more enlightened daughter protested it. Father had no clue why Mother would not just love it. And,Mother did love it. By the way, back in those days, married couples on TV had separate beds in the same room. Yeah, it was a different time.

Another nightcap is Twilight Zone. The oldest ones were the best as they brought to the fore some of the deepest universal elements of human nature. As the show went on they got quite thin and uninteresting and some were just plain silly.

We tried to watch The Honeymooners but Ralphs behavior was just too harsh and painful to laugh at . I am not an easily wilted lilly, but it was just too much and not really even all that funny.

I am old enough for my vintage TV to be in the 50's and early 60's. After that I hardly watched TV at all. I was not big on watching TV. And, back in those days the one and only TV was in the living room. Even now all I use the TV for is for streaming.

garden gal, I like to watch some older movies sometimes. Some of them had real character development and much less sensational footage so that they had to be filled with much more dialogue and story line. Also there were less repeated formula stories being told. You see some of those talented actors of yesteryear. It was all so different.

Sometimes it also depicts the times. In many of those old movies of around the midcentury era, everyone smoked and drank lots of alcohol! Always with the mixed drink in hand and they smoked everywhere! What different sensibilities back then!

Those Hollywood depictions of lifestyle set what many adults of that generation aspired towards. Having that hifi set in the living room and a bar for mixed drinks, visiting Las Vegas, and having a fur coat or a swimming pool was what was considered to the high life for many of that generation. Living life like a movie star was the thing, even if you lived in the newly minted bungalows of the burbs or out on the farm.

Still there were some really good old movies.

I am old enough to remember when watching old movies meant watching really old movies from the 30's on late night TV, right before the station went off the air for the day and played the national anthem. Then, there was nothing there but that test pattern and a loud dead on buzzing sound. until sometime in the wee hours of the. next morning when it would come back on again with the agricultural reports of the daily trading prices of pork bellies or sorghum. Maybe in New York it was different. Out in the heartland of America pork bellies were big news and you needed to know first thing in the morning.

LOL!! dallasannie, your definition of "older" movies may be very different from mine :-) 'Older' movies to me are just those that were released maybe 10-20 years ago and a bit before that. Although many were excellent productions, I am not much interested in anything before the 60's - they are just too dated for my tastes.

And I'm sure my preferred choices would not be everyone's cup of tea! Caddy Shack, any of the "brat pack" movies, Wayne's World, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Back to the Future, Butch and Sundance, Thelma and Louise, A Few Good Men, The Horse Whisperer, Close Encounters, ET, Jurassic Park, the original Terminator, As Good As it Gets, Ghost, Top Gun, any of the Indiana Jones, the older Star Wars......... I am happy to rewatch any of them any time they may appear on current scheduling.

The sitcoms today aren't funny at all to me. They're just plain stupid.

I loved Frasier, pure wit. I have that on my list of shows to watch again.

I did watch Thorn Birds this weekend! It was good, but the last episode was dragging.

If you want a non-stupid and thoughtful comedy, try The Good Place. The series just ended its run on NBC, and I believe the earlier seasons are available on Netflix.

I loved the book Shogun, and the mini series, even though I never cared much for Richard Chamberlain. I liked Noble House (the book) also but the movie (or was it a mini series too?) was disappointing.

The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, were well done- I would watch them again.

Sometimes I will watch the very old (1950s-early 1960s) shows when I want something that isn't full of sex, violence, profanity and so forth. I see enough ugliness and sometimes need a break from it, even if the shows are presenting a whitewashed, simplistic version of life.

I am in the process of re-watching Major Crimes, and still enjoy it. I really liked The Closer also and watched it last winter.

I think my all time favorite, re-watched more than twice TV show is the BBC/ PBS 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice.

Not as old as a lot of these...but I will watch "The Lake House" with Sandra

Bullock and Keanu Reeves over and over and over. :)

There are a lot of movies I will watch anytime they're on TCM: Casablanca, Now Voyager, The Apartment, Dr Zhivago, Annie Hall, Lawrence of Arabia, etc. I've seen each of them a dozen times, at least.

Last night we watched What’s Eating Gilbert Grape again. 30 years old and it hasn’t aged a bit, still a fantastic movie.

Bookwoman, years ago I saw Lawrence of Arabia for the first time, a restored version on big screen. It was amazing! If it’s ever played at a theater near you, do go see it that way.

bpath, yes, I've seen it that way and it's amazing. We're fortunate to have an art house theater 5 minutes from us which shows older movies all the time, so I've seen many of my favorites on the big screen.

I love the movies from the 30's - 50's. Especially film noir. And on TCM channel.

Anyone ever see "Caged"?

Absolutely. An unexpected benefit of going to internet TV.

I binge-watched all of the Cheers episodes, some of which I hadn't seen. I'm in Cheers withdrawals now and working on Big Bang Theory from its beginnings. Others I watch once in a while are Mayberry RFD and Mary Tyler Moore. DH likes Twilight Zone.

I need to look for Leave it to Beaver and I'm thinking about the old Tonight Show. Does anybody know if they can be found on Hulu? We don't currently have Netflix.

I had lunch with my friend, and brought up this topic. I mentioned the Thorn Birds and she too loved it, at the time. She'd love to see the Johnny Carson shows, but doesn't know how to find them. They're not on Netflix, Crave etc.

There's a few clips on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnnycarson/videos

I watch old episodes of Gunsmoke more often than I'd like to admit.

And some Star Trek, especially the original and "The Next Generation".

And a few other older shows, mostly for the background effect. (takes me back to days when I had less worries?)

But few if any new shows except "Ancient Aliens".

I have an antenna tv so many of the stations air "old" tv shows from the 1950s and 1960s. I never get tired of watching any of the Star Trek series. I can watch them over and over. At 8 pm every night but Saturday Star Trek runs all the series in a row on H&I starting with the original at 8 pm, then The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, then Enterprise which ends at 1:00 am. I have my brother and cousin hooked on them now. They had only seen the original series when they were kids. Sometimes we miss The Next Generation because of other comedy shows that are new but we watch the rest of the Star Trek shows until 1 am. haha my brother and cousin are amazed how much I know about the series, the characters, recognize the ships and the various aliens. (My best friend was a die hard Trekker and he had the costume and would attend all the Star Trek fan coventions. He even bought me a Warf doll, communication badges and other various items from the show} While the show is on my brother sits with his phone and looks up info about the characters. If West Wing was on tv again I woud watch that. I loved that show.

Jasdip, Johnny Carson is on over the air here, I think it’s called Me TV on a local channel, but I think it’s pretty local. Funny, Johnny had a lot of topical humor that doesn’t play as well out of the context of the times.

I saw a joke from Mad About You today, and now I’m craving some reruns of it, such a sweet funny show.

I get Me TV as one of the over the air broadcast channels here in Ontario.

Northern Exposure. My fave.

We watched When Worlds Collide on TCM tonight (a 1951 movie), and I was surprised that I had never seen it before. My brother and I both liked it very much.

CherryFizz, you're in the prime location of the province. On the border where you can access Canadian and US OTA stations. Where I live, we're lucky to get 4 stations. We're in a valley, the Niagara Escarpment stops a lot of signals, apparently.

CherryFizz, I watch H&I pretty regularly as well :-) But when I was married I was pretty much force fed all the Star Trek shows....and Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, Babylon 5, etc., etc., etc......so those I now avoid. But I like the other cop shows - NYPD Blues, Nash Bridges. Monk, Jag and The District.

And West Wing is available on Netflix, if you get that. I re-watch the entire series every now and again. IMO, one of the best shows to ever appear on TV!!

Jasdip, I am lucky, I get 44 over the air stations but for some reason I can no longer get TVO so I watch shows on the TVO website

Gardengal, my family would agree with your assessment of West Wing. It was a sad day when the show finished.

I've never seen West Wing. I'm going to put it in by 'tv book' where I have my shows listed. I never binge on one show till it's done, I bounce around from show to show. So having them all written down is a 'must!'

I finally watched Breaking Bad--I'm several years behind the rest of the world!