When oh when

[jx2mad]

Why is there so much junk on free to air tv? Just looked at program for tonight...nothing worth watching. When are we going to get some decent programs? :mad::mad::mad:

[johnyrover]

It's a definite search and filter process. Lucky I bought an unloved GEMS p38. Now I dont have time to watch the telly.:D

[Wallaby Ted]

I don't think it's going to get any better, even my 12 year old son wanted to turn the tv off.

Looks like I'll be finishing the pre-study material for the course I am doing tomorrow.

[Chucaro]

MotoGP is in 10 :)

[BMKal]

Well you've just saved me checking to see if there's anything worth watching tonight.

I've got the computer plugged into the TV and running the AggFlow simulator on it at the moment. Supposed to have two different crushing plant designs for a 5 million tonne per annum iron ore mine finished by tomorrow. Should get it done tonight if there's no interruptions. :D

[bee utey]

The spectrum space that FTA TV occupies is probably worth more to sell than it currently earns. So why spend money on quality programming? I suspect FTA TV will dissappear when the viewers have nearly all gone. That'll be when the National Porn Network has been sufficiently rolled out.

[87County]

ABC might be OK tonight - Accidental Soldier

[Hall]

Yeah nothing on the tv. What is it with all the encore or special presentations of shows. Just mindless fill of tv time. Oh and as we really really need it, another shopping channel is starting up.
Cheers Hall

[olbod]

Why is there so much junk on free to air tv? Just looked at program for tonight...nothing worth watching. When are we going to get some decent programs? :mad::mad::mad:

You are right there.
Apart from the news, NETBALL, Moto and F1 and olympics and such, I very rarely watch anything but the ABC or SBS chanells.
I have to sit thru adds with the sound muted. Lately they are promoting a thing called "in a league of there own ", these pastits and down and outs
performing like cheap circus animals is mind bogling, they have absolutely no pride. Look ma i'm still a star and on telly. What about that slide show ? Belly laughs and guffers. For crying out loud.
Another thing I have noticed is this crap is being aired hours after the u.s. Gosh thats important, it must be even more moronic and needs abit of a shove.
All of this absurd stuff I suspect will be rating winners.
The way things are heading I am not surprised, in one sense these days, the average Aussie has no problem identifying with boofheads and in another sense the people need a mindless escape from day to day reality.
Getting sicker which ever way.

Cheers, I think.

PS: The online sellers of good books earn alot from me.
PS to the above PS: Doctor Who is still an historical documentary.

[trog]

Well there are not any compulsary viewing laws that I know of yet. Let the advertisers know you wont buy their goods if the ads are annoying. Or starve both the networks and their advertisers oxygen by turning the TV off. Listen to music , talking books, or read a real book . Life does not revolve around commercial media dictating to vested interests.

[sheerluck]

We do the search and filter thing too. Have a lookat what's on, and then decide which program (because there's rarely more than one that interests us) we're going to watch.

On the odd occasion there is more than one, what really bugs me is when the station makes everything run late. In theory a program will run from 8.30 till 9.30, but in reality it can be plus or minus 20 mins from that time.

When there's a half hour show on another side (QI and Mock the Week are two favourites on ABC) the choice is abandon one show or miss the other. :mad:

[ugu80]

Let the advertisers know you wont buy their goods if the ads are annoying.
I have a good video recorder that skips from the start to finish of the ads. I don't watch the shows as they happen, I record them then edit out the ads and start and finish credits and watch latter at my convenience. A one hour commercial show is actually about 40 mins long. As a rule I've found it takes about 5 mins to edit out the 20 mins of ads and start/finish credits giving me 15 mins more time for myself.

It does pay to let the recording run way overtime so as to not miss the ending.

[DiscoMick]

We also record so we can skip through the ads. Channel 9 is the worst for starting programs late. Most commercial TV is just rubbish now, maybe the best shows have been bought by pay-tv. If it wasn't for the ABC and SBS free TV would be a wasteland. It's no wonder Youtube is now the world's most popular TV channel.

[Hall]

When there's a half hour show on another side (QI and Mock the Week are two favourites on ABC) the choice is abandon one show or miss the other. :angry:
IView for channel two on the net and also SBS on demand is another site. As I of course don`t know your telly, but most can be used as a monitor.
Cheers Hall

[ATH]

We usually only watched stuff we've recorded but so many times commercial programs have not added on the time a show is lengthened by all the ads. and self promotion.
And this crap which is constantly in yer face across the bottom of the screen advertising some forthcoming garbage while you're watching what you've recorded makes me mad. I am mad anyway but that's different......
AlanH.

[Homestar]

Unfortunately gave up on FTA ages ago - with the exception of ABC. Pretty much only watch pay now, which I suppose is what they would like everyone to do...

Seems all the good shows I like are on pay, they have the money to buy the decent stuff and leave the scraps to FTA...

[d2dave]

I have a good video recorder that skips from the start to finish of the ads. I don't watch the shows as they happen, I record them then edit out the ads and start and finish credits and watch latter at my convenience. A one hour commercial show is actually about 40 mins long. As a rule I've found it takes about 5 mins to edit out the 20 mins of ads and start/finish credits giving me 15 mins more time for myself.

It does pay to let the recording run way overtime so as to not miss the ending.

I do the same although I don't watch much telly anymore. Full of crap

[ugu80]

I do the same although I don't watch much telly anymore. Full of crap

Still some good ones out there; anyone else loving 'Vikings' on SBS?
(Vikings - the original Klingons)

[sheerluck]

IView for channel two on the net and also SBS on demand is another site. As I of course don`t know your telly, but most can be used as a monitor.
Cheers Hall

Got the ABC iView on the PS3, and it works well, not looked for the SBS On Demand one though.