CBS Hosts Ad-Funded TV Series, Incl. Original Star Trek 276
eldavojohn writes "On Friday, CBS launched a TV Classics section to their ad based online service. Which means that Trekkies can now watch all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series online at the expense of a few commercials. Alongside this CBS is offering all of MacGyver, Twin Peaks and even three seasons of the original Twilight Zone. A side note, they seem to work perfectly fine in Linux. "
"On Friday"? (Score:5, Informative)
Um, it's been there for over a year now. I watched the first season last spring.
Re:Outside the US? (Score:3, Informative)
That's why proxies were invented, they don't know the difference...
Old news... (Score:3, Informative)
Twilight Zone episodes [tv.com] have been online for the last year, at least...
STTNG, Voyager, Stargate, Atlantis are online via ShoutCast...
Why are you guys so out of the loop...?
Re:When did CBS get the rights? (Score:1, Informative)
Desilu -> Paramount -> Viacom -> CBS
wikipedia probably has the details.
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Re:Outside the US? Like Canada (Score:4, Informative)
Browsing from Canada this is all I get when I try to watch videos...
"The video you requested is unavailable. Please visit www.cbs.com for current videos."
Is this just a coincidence or is anyone having the same issue?
Re:Outside the US? Hot Spot Shield (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Old news... (Score:3, Informative)
STTNG, Voyager, Stargate, Atlantis are online via ShoutCast...
ShoutCast [shoutcast.com] is the Nullsoft/AOL internet radio site. Do you mean Fancast [fancast.com]?
Assuming you meant the latter, I went to their site and found ST:TOS, but nothing about ST:TNG. I don't think that TNG is available on any of these ad-supported, media-company-supported sites.
Re:Outside the US? (Score:3, Informative)
<NerdVoice
Uh, no. There's no mysterious "time boundary" at warp 10, it's just that NCC-1701-C couldn't effectively do it. However, in an alternate timeline, NCC-1701-D (under Commander Riker) *could* achieve as much as warp 13, and this was key to its victory, even though the alternate timeline was destroyed in the process.
I can't believe you don't know this... EVERYBODY knows that warp 13 is totally possible...
/NerdVoice
Re:When did CBS get the rights? (Score:4, Informative)
It's an honest mistake for one so young...
You see, way back when, there were studios and there were broadcast networks. Broadcast networks weren't allowed to own studios. So they would buy the rights to air the program (and they would have some say over content and the like), but the studio owned the program. So when a network cancelled a program, the studio would make the money on syndication and, later, on DVD sales. The studios would make more money on syndication and DVD sales than they made from the networks for the original airings.
So, back then, all NBC did was show Star Trek on their network. Desilu (and later, Paramount) owned the actual rights to the show.
Of course, they got rid of that rule about networks owning studios (which is how the Fox network, etc. came about). Studios bought up networks (Disney bought ABC, NBC is part of Universal, and CBS is part of Viacom, which includes Paramount). This works nicely for the studios because they are no longer dependent on some outside source to make shows popular--they control everything.
Re:Outside the US? (Score:3, Informative)