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3rd June 2009, 21:13 | #1 |
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[Rant] Regular TV sucks!!
I tried to watch "Sleepaway Camp 2" and 3 this morning on CHILL and its not even worth it!!
1) Letterbox 2) THEY ONLY PLAY 9 MINUTES OF THE MOVIE THEN 8 MINUTES OF GARBAGE ALL THRU IT!!!!! (9 mins then 8 mins worth of ads,etc) Why are there so many commercials?? ABSOLUTE GARBAGE..... I watched it but i had a VCR movie i was watching during the spam on CHILL..... |
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5th June 2009, 01:26 | #2 |
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you are aware that if it didn't have letterbox there is possibly up to over 50 percent of the pic missing. if you stretch it to the top you have to stretch it on the sides to keep the aspect ratio.
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5th June 2009, 08:00 | #3 |
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I want to rant as well. In times past in the UK if the programme was 1 hr long the adverts would be on after about 20-25 minutes and they would only last a matter of minutes themselves. With a film, the adverts, again only a few minutes long would be shown every 1/2 hr or so. Ok, could live with that totally.
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Now it's start the programme, 5-7 minutes of viewing, adverts, 5-6 minutes, programme begins again, lucky if you can watch a straight 15 minutes before adverts again for 5-6 minutes and so on. With films nowadays they put the adverts on whenever, regardless of where the storyline is, breaking up important speeches or action scenes. Bastards. There are three things that annoy the hell out of me, about TV executives and adverts. When the programme is reaching the end, only a matter of minutes remaining and there is an advert break, when the programme starts up again, itself is only on for a few minutes before it completely finishes then there's more f**king adverts (usually another 5-6 minutes) before the next programme begins. This means within the last 8-9 minutes of a programme and the beginning of the next there could be 6-7 minutes of adverts. This gets me when you watch a programme thats got an hr air time slot but you know that the programme is really only 40 minutes long, that means at least 20 minutes of breaks. One other thing is when the advert break consists only of previews of the forth coming programmes on the station your watching. And why, (recently in the UK but i bet its been going on for years in the states) is the screen continual being filled with on screen graffiti? Informing you what your watching, whats on next, whats on tomorrow etc. So for me TV SUCKED big time ruined by the adverts and the overall dumbing down of programmes and biased media reporting. I no longer watch TV, download everything i need from the net, copy onto disc, watch on DVD player, sorted, no adverts, no licence to pay as its not live streaming. Thanks for letting go on for so long, but i feel so much better for it. |
5th June 2009, 09:20 | #4 |
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I've relised that since I've got my net connection, I don't really watch much TV since I can now just DL my favourite shows and movies of the net.
Does anybody else feel this way? |
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12th June 2009, 03:33 | #5 |
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Yes and there usually arent ANY COMMERCIALS doing it this way...... (But the quality might not be as good too)
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12th June 2009, 08:36 | #6 |
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My answer is to live in a time warp . I will only watch TV progs that I have recorded to my HDD recorder, and generally watch them the day after they are broadcast. There is a very nice skip button on the remote with increments of 30 seconds, 1 , 2 , 3 and 5 minutes. As soon as the adds come on a couple of clicks and Im back to the action. I never sit through adds, life is too short.
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12th June 2009, 21:19 | #7 |
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Weird. In Canada here we tend to get roughly 7-10 mins of program then 3-4 mins of advertising then back for 7-10 mins of the program,etc. Its annoying but watchable, and they at least make the ad breaks in sensible places for TV shows, although for movies they often screw things up like another poster mentioned with neglectful breaks that interrupt story.
Regardless though the number of programs worth watching has diminished remarkably in the last few years, now dominated by dumbass "reality" tv shows and stupid gameshows to the point where theres only maybe 5 channels I bother to watch anymore. And in my area, like much of Canada, its monopoly cable provider, you have only one choice and they make sure that in order to get the tiny handful of channels worth watching that you must subsribe to a 55 dollar per month package., plus they raise the rates 1-2 dollars every year. I'd like to cancel it but another scam is that if you have cable internet (like me) that if you cancel the TV portion of your service they hit you with a 10 dollar monthly surcharge for not having TV but keeping internet. |
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gotta love on-demand
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Same here. I watch TV to ocasionally check out a new program. I recently started using the bit torrent to D/L whole seasons of shows, usually with good quality. If it's something I really, really like I'll buy it on DVD on sale or used. It used to be the average [American produced] hour long TV program ran 52-53 minutes. By the mid eighties, and since then, programs run at 43 1/2 minutes. The same division appies to half hour shows. I've made entire meals for three people between some breakes and not missed any thing!
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14th June 2009, 04:28 | #10 |
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I love watching films and other shows on the BBC: no brakes, no commercials ever!
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