While some of the programming available through LikeTelevision is available free through the Internet Archive, many of the classics presented here remain available by subscription only through this and other movie services. For either $14.95/month or $125 annually, you get access to a library of MPEG-1 videos from Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Bruce Lee in The Chinese Connection, a ton of Betty Boop, Felix the Cat and Superman cartoons, the Three Stooges, Popeye, and a bizarre assortment of other titles.
The video quality on LikeTelevision isn’t on par with digitally remastered footage released by the movie studios. It is a very affordable way to get your eyeballs on some classics more quickly than Archive.org will get around to releasing them. Although the quality isn’t quite DVD standard MPEG-2 formatting, you could easily burn any of the movies found on LikeTelevision to DVD-R for playback on your home entertainment system with better than VHS quality. Unlike other online services, these movies are available DRM free, allowing you to play them back on the computer or device of your choosing.
LikeTelevision seems to be gone, likely due to the wide availability of much of the same content on YouTube. You can still find it in the Wayback Machine:
