As a Galactica fan, and someone who fondly remembers the old Hitchcock and Adam-12 episodes?
Me for one.
I was struck by the video clarity and near-perfect audio. It was a big improvement over the snowy black-and-white TV of my youth when I was constantly adjusting the TV antenna. I haven't watched Adam-12 in decades and it brought back a lot of good memories.
At $1.99 a show, I don't think I'll be collecting the entire series. But I think the price of these older shows will eventually come way down once the technology takes off.
Right now, this video downloading thing is still in the "early-adopter" phase. But I'm telling you, it's going to be huge. In a few years, most people will get their video content "a la carte" and TV as we know it today will be a relic of the past.
The networks know it too and this is why they are suddenly clamoring to get in on the ground floor with iTunes.