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Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

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653 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 28 Jul 23 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.286s | source
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boomboomsubban ◴[28 Jul 23 15:57 UTC] No.36908788[source]▶
I'm surprised there aren't more full tapings of 90's television available, as in entire blocks of broadcasting with all the commercials intact. That was how most recording would have happened, and with the start of TV Land the networks should have been able to predict there'd be a market for it in 30 years.
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OfSanguineFire ◴[28 Jul 23 16:00 UTC] No.36908845[source]▶
Commercials have their own rights (and they often feature third-party music which, in turn, has its own rights). So, even if you have the rights to rebroadcast the actual program, you couldn’t show the original commercials without massive legal hurdles.
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1. rchaud ◴[30 Jul 23 14:30 UTC] No.36931471[source]▶
There are thousands of "commercials from 199X" compilations on Youtube, for pretty much every year from the mid-80s onwards. Some of those have been up for years.