TV?
You mean that dusty box next to the front door that catches snail mail, keys & dog leashes, with the remote control cobwebbed to the top?
It hasn't been used for years. Does it really need it's own section?
Actually, it was the heavily scripted, massively over-produced so-called "reality" TV that finally pushed me into ignoring DearOldTelly.
I'll admit to eyeballing the Channel 2 (KTVU) and channel 7 (KGO) news here in the SF Bay Area on occasion. But that's via TehIntraWebTubes, not the television.
... start the conversation, Drew.
As I said (paraphrasing, because I can't be arsed to find my original post) "I'm still iffy on the whole "user generated forums" concept ... Seems to me that that, combined with auto-moderation and bloody awful ransom note HTML-ish lack of user design will keep the moderators busier than before."
I speak as an aging, jaded Usenet and mailing list moderator. But hey, if it works here on ElReg, who am I to argue :-)
Yup, ruddy marvellous.
My only gripe with the new series is that they just had to fuck around and re-orchestrate the theme music. The original had the most fantastic impact to it and was one of the best opening themes of all time IMHO. The new version's just sort of, er, "limp" (for want of a better term) by comparison.
The original was one of the very few things that had me making a point of sitting through the opening credits, even when watching on PVR and having the option of skipping 'em.
Someone at HBO needs to be sent a plaque with; "If it ain't broke, don't bloody fix it!" on it to hang on their wall.
My daughter enthused about the books, so I read the first one. Got a bit bored eventually and the woman who 'married' 'Ghengis Khan' hatching dragons finished me off. I could no longer suspend disbelief. Since we don't have Sky I dunno if it comes across any better on TV.
after a period of well over five years without a goggle box - this has hundreds of channels and there are still evening when we just want to watch somethign and there is "nothing on".
Thankfully we have a few terabytes of recordings and our DVD collection that means we usually have whatever we want to watch already stored and prolly in a higher quality than issues by the likes ofthe beeb.
Our TV licence has been renewed but only for six months. After that we are seriously considering uninstalling the freesatHD system and giving it to a friend who has reception problems.