TV is dying.

TCIB said:
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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Ads are probably the biggest reason I record everything, ahead of being able to watch things 'on demand'. My feedback to Sky a while back when asked for possible improvements to their service was a x60 fast forward option for ad breaks (fastest currently is x30).

It's an interesting topic though, as I can't be the only one doing this and the companies paying for advertising must be aware of it. The vast majority of channels will be reliant on advertising income which they won't want to see dropping so I wouldn't be surprised to see the >> function locked during ad breaks, at which stage if the kids are old enough the sky and FTA boxes are getting launched into the Atlantic and I'll be going full IPTV.
 
KS55 said:
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.
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A lot of the good old shit is now on you tube, I watched nearly every episode of Public Eye recently on there, all Frank ever seem to do was make endless cups of tea... he was unmarried and never had any women in the series although a couple of women showed an interest in him in one or two episodes ...he's a bit scruffy but it turns out he's a likeable chap and he charges 6 Guineas a day plus expenses lol

The early episodes were in black and white and then it changed to colour I think in season 6
 
aguero93:20 said:
Ads are probably the biggest reason I record everything, ahead of being able to watch things 'on demand'. My feedback to Sky a while back when asked for possible improvements to their service was a x60 fast forward option for ad breaks (fastest currently is x30).

It's an interesting topic though, as I can't be the only one doing this and the companies paying for advertising must be aware of it. The vast majority of channels will be reliant on advertising income which they won't want to see dropping so I wouldn't be surprised to see the >> function locked during ad breaks, at which stage if the kids are old enough the sky and FTA boxes are getting launched into the Atlantic and I'll be going full IPTV.
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It is a good point. They need their money but i think i would rather pay a monthly fee to be able to skip them/have none. If i used them that is. I tend to watch films only really these days. The odd binge of a series but not much.
 
TCIB said:
It is a good point. They need their money but i think i would rather pay a monthly fee to be able to skip them/have none. If i used them that is. I tend to watch films only really these days. The odd binge of a series but not much.
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I'm already paying Sky, the problem is that they don't pay much for the third party channels and they're not likely to look kindly on their own channels losing revenue through ads.
 
Isn't the TV licence fee about to go up again, by around 3%?

Honestly, the only time a BBC channel was on in our house was for an hour per week for about twelve weeks in autumn when my daughter watches strictly, and maybe an attenborough documentary if he's done something new. Used to like stargazing live too but they canned that.

So, pushing two hundred quid for about 15 hours of television. When I pointed that out to the wife even she said, sod it, get rid.

Live events will be ppv in the future, live telly will die a death very soon. Even my parents generation are increasingly now choosing to watch Netflix or similar at their leisure instead of coronation street or eastenders.

The quality new telly is not on the terrestrial channels largely, and in the BBC's case is cheaper to watch elsewhere, and customised to your tastes. Death of an era maybe, but not an undeserved one I'd say.
 
squirtyflower said:
57 channels and there’s nothing on
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There's loads of channels on, shopping channels! Whether it's some useless kitchen gadget that will be bought and placed in a drawer, never to see the light of Day, or a piece of shite jewellery. Your other half loves shopping channels whilst your asleep. That 'bargain' "I've never seen that dress before, love" ..... "I've had it ages dear"....

And then the rest,,,, the soaps and reality TV.

That's Freeview tv: /
 
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There is some very good T.V if you look. Just in the last few months, Black Earth Rising, Killing Eve, Little Drummer Girl , all excellent.
 
blueparrot said:
There is some very good T.V if you look. Just in the last few months, Black Earth Rising, Killing Eve, Little Drummer Girl , all excellent.
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There is some good stuff (Black earth rising was pish mind) but it’s lost amongst the utter drivel that get churned out. Too much reality wank, too much ‘celebrity’ programming - who the fuck wants to watch the shite about celebrities kids? Corrie lost its humour when jack and Vera croaked and has become a forum for so called life issues.
 
TV is going through a golden era! Certainly for drama and big budget shows.

Have you watched any of the following: Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Big Little Lies, The Wire, Peaky Blinders, Narcos, Sharp Objects, True Detective, Killing Eve, End of The Fucking World

Just a number of shows off the top of my head I’ve enjoyed over the last few years.
 
I rarely watch TV these days, much prefer the radio. There's some outstanding stuff on the BBC sounds thingy. If I do watch TV then it's sport and history. Like a bit of comedy as well. 8 out of ten cats does countdown, taskmaster that sort of thing.

The rest?

The missus watches loads of shite and I love walking into the TV room and asking all kinds of mundane questions...

"Who's that?"
"Why's she crying?"
"What's wrong with her mouth?"
"Why are her tits 10 times the size of her body?"

That sort of thing.
 
If its documentaries and educational stuff BBC 4 has stuff on Science, Nature , History, Music , Arts. I find loads of stuff on there accidently and can get hooked for a whole evening.
 
Seems like Alan Partridge was a true visionary: his pitch for programmes like ‘Inner City Sumo’, ‘Youth Hostelling with Chris Ewebank’, ‘Knowing You, Knowing ME’, ‘Monkey Tennis’ and ‘Cooking In Prison’ (a dead cert!) would probably have been taken up by now by one of the terrestrial channels.
 
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