NBC has announced that it will stream full length vintage tv shows on its website NBC.com/vintage You can now watch some real classics such as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (a personal favorite) The ATeam, Miami Vice, Battlestar Galactica, emergency and the spooky Night Gallery to name but a few.

Although many of these shows have been available if you searched around it now seems NBC has seen the light and sees the future in internet TV and pushing its product out complete with ads.

This follows on from CBS announcing plans to stream episodes of classic tv shows on CBS.com. Episodes of Star Trek, MacGuyver, Twilight Zone, and the awesome Hawaii Five O (Duh duh duh duh daaaa.daaaa) are available to view.

The quality of the shows is only so so but it beats having to download via torrent and p2p sites. And if your of a certain age it will certainly give you a warm feeling when William Shatner ( Captain Kirk) says ‘Beam me up scotty’ from your PC.

Of course you need to be an American resident to view these streams, as determined by your ISP. Of course there are ways around that but thats for another post.