>>irajde+hn
You may be mis-remembering old TV. A tiny number of companies produced a narrow range of programming and if you missed an episode, tough shit. Maybe you'd get a chance to see it in reruns someday if you were lucky. People would actually go out of their way to be home at certain times on certain days to catch the show they liked and were invested in. And of course all of this came with a 2:1 ratio of show to advertisement. And then there was the religiously-dominated abomination that was standards and practices...
>>standa+Zq
> Maybe you'd get a chance to see it in reruns someday if you were lucky.
We're starting to come back to this from the long way around, though: I've had several shows and movies I wanted to watch, that I knew I used to be able to watch, which are no longer available on the service that I watched them.
>>cwillu+8s
And those "you need to start watching the movie within 5 days after renting it and must finish within 2 days". Might as well bring those DVD rentals back.