I complain about what airs, but I do have an embarrassment of riches with cartoons on DVD. Not everything I would like to see, as we all well know, but almost everything of note that has been released. Around 2007 I started buying them all, after noticing for years that things I liked were no longer airing on cable once it finished destroying local broadcast traditions, and I didn't like much of what was on anymore. Growing up I never thought Looney Tunes would be off the air, that's crazy talk. And yet they were for a time and might be again someday.

Being a software developer by trade I started putting all my cartoons on a huge hard drive and wrote a custom database and software to browse and play them back throughout my home. Today I use a custom Roku channel I wrote to do just that. So if it came out on DVD/Blu-ray and is classic or semi-classic animation then I've probably got it at my fingertips and can start playing it within a few seconds using a simple remote control. Looney Tunes collections, all the Walt Disney Treasures, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, T&J, Droopy, UPA, R&B, Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, all the old Kids WB stuff, various old Marvel cartoons, tons of classic H-B (thank you Warner Archive), some Disney Afternoon stuff, various 80s-90s SatAM stuff, lots of Peanuts cartoons, little bit of Filmation, all kinds of Super Friends incarnations, etc, etc, etc, and of course Thunderbean collections.

So I basically have my own Boomerang about a million times better than the real thing. It can even randomly program half hour or hour long blocks of classic cartoons from my collection for me, such as an hour of Looney Tunes, with options like Any, B&W only, Color only, post-1949 (or my other favorite, an hour of Three Stooges). I haven't gone so far as to turn it into a 24/7 stream yet, its just on-demand, but I only have so much time to watch it. Still it would be nice if this stuff would air and I could just turn it on, or if kids and adults generally could see this material broadcast. As well as airing things I still can't get a good copy of.