TV is dying.

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Bill Walker

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I don't know whether it's an age thing , but i've gone right off watching live tv, the more channels there are the worse it seems to get.
Apart from David Attenborough and the odd Portillo train journey i'm hardly watching the box at all .
Anyone else think TV is a dead loss ? or are there some programme's i should be checking out ?
 
nimrod said:
I don't know whether it's an age thing , but i've gone right off watching live tv, the more channels there are the worse it seems to get.
Apart from David Attenborough and the odd Portillo train journey i'm hardly watching the box at all .
Anyone else think TV is a dead loss ? or are there some programme's i should be checking out ?
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Hardly watch anything live bar sports, usually go through the planner once a week and record everything I'd watch, then watch it when I feel like it.
 
nimrod said:
I don't know whether it's an age thing , but i've gone right off watching live tv, the more channels there are the worse it seems to get.
Apart from David Attenborough and the odd Portillo train journey i'm hardly watching the box at all .
Anyone else think TV is a dead loss ? or are there some programme's i should be checking out ?
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Xhamster. Nah, on second thoughts it's a bit wank mate.
 
City is the only thing worth watching. The wife watches Corrie.
If it wasn't for City I would bin it, and seeing as how we won't be getting any more games next season............
 
aguero93:20 said:
Hardly watch anything live bar sports, usually go through the planner once a week and record everything I'd watch, then watch it when I feel like it.
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Yea live sport of course (well a lot I record like the six nations, do we have a thread on that ?) I only watch Footie and Rugby,
 
nimrod said:
Yeah Ive seen that, but it wasnt on live free to air TV, thats what Im talking about. Just live free channels.
Theyre ruining it with all this reality shite and cheap soaps
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Reality shite and cheap soaps are unfortunately what people want to watch.

It's funny really, the amount of FTA channels has exploded but the amount of quality programming has stayed the same and is now spread thinly over more channels.

Doesn't bother me anyways, I'll occasionally binge watch a series if it gets recommended and the first episode or two pull me in, but I'm not mad on TV otherwise. Sports, films and the odd documentary and if it wasn't for the rest of the family it'd probably only go on for City, Munster, Kerry and Ireland games with the odd film.
 
99% of tv is crap. Sport is good, but that's nothing to do with tv companies, it's just a relay of reality. I hardly ever watch anything other than sport, and a lot of that is rubbish. All those detective things bore me to death. The butler did it, thicko.
 
It is mainly a technology factor that has seen me not use a tv remote for about 10 years. I got involved in piracy in about 1998 properly. So i was right there in it's golden age which has obviously made a large impression on me. When you can literally watch exactly what you want when you want anything else becomes a lesser experience. Nor do you tolerate stuff like adverts or waiting until next week when it was available in your country.

I have simply never found good reason to leave it in the past. It is as relevant today as it was then to me. Not to much has changed. I think a few 30-40yo's probably fit that description. They are all familiar with torrents so it is easy and convenient.

Within 100ms of an advert starting my patience is gone. I have 0 tolerance for them so general live tv is not something i concern myself with. I deal exclusively (City is the exception to this rule) with the rips/caps that get released on file sharing sites of one ilk or another. This way i can discern the best quality and free myself from any adverts.
 
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