Star Trek "DeMastered" Video Service to Launch

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lopy writes "The Star Trek franchise has partnered with the little known DuroSport Corporation to launch a new video download service. The service will offer 'DeMastered' versions of classic Trek episodes. The new releases roll-back the quality enhancements of recent years and attempt to replicate the experience viewers had while watching the original series on TV in the 1960's. Medialoper was given a preview, and they've just posted a scathing review of this odd new service."

how retro

[cyberbob2351]

Those of you who emulate Atari games on your amd64 supercomputers cannot whine.

Sometimes I need that trip to the past, to remind myself how crappy my youth television was.

I know it's BS but,

[pair-a-noyd]

I'm all for it. I wish they would do it.
Matter of fact, I'm building my own "way back machine", an HTPC with a few terabytes and loaded with nothing but old TV shows from the 50's & 60's, maybe a few from the 70's.
It will play old TV shows according to a schedule and all the episodes will play in the proper sequence.
I'm editing out all the commercials so they won't be tainted by modern crap. I wish I could find copies of the old commercials of way back then too, that would be pretty neat to mix them in. It may take me a few years to gather all the shows I want but I have time. And I'll never grow tired of watching them over and over. Watching TV on this machine really will be like going back in time.
Lost in Space, Voyage to the bottom of the Sea, ST TOS, Time Tunnel, Green Hornet, Land of the Giants, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligans Island, Addams Family (tos), The Munsters, etc.... Stuff that was on TV when I was a kid. Entertainment without gratuitous violence, sex and cursing. Just good clean fun.

Why? Because I despise 99.9% of contemporary TV programs, they simply suck.
Really. I'm stone cold serious.