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tennis football big brother dont realy apeal to me so thats 50% off my normal veiwing cancelled
any body else think the coverage is over the top !!
all i can say is i am glad i bought a 500 whatever they are freeveiw digital recorder with 80 hrs recording capacity shame i have only recorded 20 hrs worth lol
 
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Never before has the sound and picture quality been so good. Never before has the programme quality been so bad.

200 channels, and 99.9% of it $hite. (the 0.1% that isn't $hite is The Sweeney repeats. ''You're nicked you slag!'' :cool: )
 
TV quality has always been compromised, over quantity. Remember the '70's Open University programmes with some beardy bloke going on about maths? And a countdown clock between programmes? At least now the BBC and others fill that time with crap, advertising crap that is going to come on? Some footballers kicking balls to themselves or fish swimming in tandem..utter bore.

The 80's introduced cartoons when there was nothing to broadcast, mainly 40 year old material of the Flintstones, or Tom and Jerry?

The '90's introduced waffle, just talk inanely about nothing for half hour.

The 'naughties introduced so many channels that the TV remote batteries go flat, before you find anything worthwhile to watch.

The binaries, 2010, introduce rewind TV, but whatever you wanted to watch, either failed to record, or stopped half way through.

Cheap TV, so a major event like tennis, or the football is gold to them, as they have no money to make something origional, as everything on BBC3/4 is a spin off from an American TV soap, which are banal, and useless, or a docusoap about global warming/government warning message...
 
Whitespirit66 said:
Never before has the sound and picture quality been so good. Never before has the programme quality been so bad.

200 channels, and 99.9% of it $hite. (the 0.1% that isn't $hite is The Sweeney repeats. ''You're nicked you slag!'' :cool: )
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But this is exactly what we siad would happen.

The problem is they tried to emulate the cable TV model of the United States EXCEPT they failed to appreciate the USA has a massively larger population, and therefore can support local TV stations.

They also failed to learn from history. The escalation of 5 channel terrestrial TV into 200 channel cable was in effect a repeat performance of what happened when TV came round first time and we escalated from Music Hall to TV in the 50's. The nett effect was the same.

When there was only Music Hall, you could develop an act and then take it round the music halls of country for 20 years, playing the act to 200 people a time once or twice a day. When TV appeared, all of a sudden your act was seen by millions of people at once, and became useless. You then had to write a new act. The power of TV to consume material was gargantuan, and escalated a whole industry, script writing, from a few dozen guys to hundreds.

Thus the same scenario was reenacted for cable TV. When you have 200 channels, you need a scaling up of program production to meet demand by fifty times, which was never going to happen. there isnt that many smart, inventive writers on the planet. So it was inevitable that it would sink into a mire of repeats and dross.
 
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When you have 200 channels, you need a scaling up of program production to meet demand by fifty times, which was never going to happen.
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How very true. There's only so much good TV to go round but, believe it or not, it could be worse. You should try watching some American channels. You settle down for what you hope will be a one hour documentary on "Underwater Earthquakes and Sunken Cities" and what do you get; six snippets of badly presented material five minutes long slotted into the adverts! :mad: :mad: :mad: British TV hasn't sunk that low yet.

We still have some decent TV but when, as often happens, there really isn't anything worth watching, that's when a hard disc recorder comes into its own - or you could watch one of the many £3 DVDs you picked up in A*DA. Better still, why not just switch the thing off and have an early night. ;) ;) ;)
 
Space cat said:
Lincsbodger said:
When you have 200 channels, you need a scaling up of program production to meet demand by fifty times, which was never going to happen.
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How very true. There's only so much good TV to go round but, believe it or not, it could be worse. You should try watching some American channels. You settle down for what you hope will be a one hour documentary on "Underwater Earthquakes and Sunken Cities" and what do you get; six snippets of badly presented material five minutes long slotted into the adverts! :mad: :mad: :mad: British TV hasn't sunk that low yet.

We still have some decent TV but when, as often happens, there really isn't anything worth watching, that's when a hard disc recorder comes into its own - or you could watch one of the many £3 DVDs you picked up in A*DA. Better still, why not just switch the thing off and have an early night. ;) ;) ;)
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or come trolling here, or go and do some weeding on the allotment..............
 
Something came to me after reading the threads. If we had brilliant TV would all the chores not get done. Like for instants, the front gardens wouldn't get tidied up and remain weed infested.

When I drive around my town I can see that some people must like a bit of dross. More so than others.

My gardens not to bad but could be better. But I use a twin freeview recorder.

My mates garden is terrible. He doesn't watch much tele but is always on a computer. Like a tele.

I guess that's why so many people go for the low maintenance garden now. So that they can watch more teledross.

Teledross = Mind boggling rubbish that nobody likes to admit they watch but have to, to a fan, to be able to have an intellegent conversation about unintelligible rubbish without hurting their friends feelings.
 
I've done work for tv on a few occansions and the problem of what to actually put on has been going on for some time. 10or 12 years ago we filmed a programme for I think ITV , something about people's wish fulfillment where a bloke was given the chance to do something he'd always wanted to but never had. I never saw the programme aired as it wasn't shown on terestrial channels evidently.
However, we spoke to the producer/director about an idea we had and she told us to put the idea in writing and send it off, because as she pointed out to us there was vastly more airspace to fill and simply not enough ideas and almost anything was in with a chance of being at least considered. :rolleyes:
 
ladylola said:
I've done work for tv on a few occansions and the problem of what to actually put on has been going on for some time. 10or 12 years ago we filmed a programme for I think ITV , something about people's wish fulfillment where a bloke was given the chance to do something he'd always wanted to but never had. I never saw the programme aired as it wasn't shown on terestrial channels evidently.
However, we spoke to the producer/director about an idea we had and she told us to put the idea in writing and send it off, because as she pointed out to us there was vastly more airspace to fill and simply not enough ideas and almost anything was in with a chance of being at least considered. :rolleyes:
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Which is why all the TV companies jumped on the 'Reality TV' bandwagon. Massively cheap to make, and generating hours and hours of airtime. The cost per minute of crap like Big Brother and 'Britains Got Talent' is bargain basement. And it shows.
 
Lincsbodger said:
Which is why all the TV companies jumped on the 'Reality TV' bandwagon. Massively cheap to make, and generating hours and hours of airtime. The cost per minute of crap like Big Brother and 'Britains Got Talent' is bargain basement. And it shows.
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What they jumped on was the money-making potential of the premium rate phone number. TV talent shows aren't new. Remember Opportunity Knocks? What's new is the talent show that drags on for weeks on end and every tedious episode ends with "To keep third rate tosspot number one in dial 090 xxxxxxxx1, etc, etc. :mad: :mad: :mad:

The Big Bore had some novelty value first time round - we even got a decent laugh when Jack Dee tried to break out - but it went downhill fast. The producers went to ever more extreme lengths to fill the house with crackpots until they finally recruited a genuine nutter. I don't think they'll be happy until they've screened an attempted murder! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

But why am I complaining. While the rest of them are glued to the screen watching yet another housemate getting evicted, I get to watch one of my many £3 DVDs. :D :D :D
 
i have never ever voted for anything via the phone or any other system that costs money
if its free i might think about it but have never ever entered a competition at any price
in deed once britains got tallent passes the regional auditions i loose interest

big brother first show ok then lost interest
dancing on cinderela ect n o interest
unfortunatly iff the tv companys try and pay for[gain income ]from phones then its not a real program its pandering to peoples gulability or nievity and as such should be banned as ripping people off :D :D
 
big-all said:
dancing on cinderela ect n o interest
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Ah yes, that reminds me. Dancing on Ice, Strictly Come Dancing and the Oscars. What do they all have in common?

Answer: Half the population only watches in the hope that somebody's breasts will fall out. :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
 
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