Television

volvick

Is it just me or is TV crap and before anyone says something like "don't watch it so" I sorta have no choice at the moment. TG I have sky (basic may I add) and there is so much crap on the TV I can't see how 1 people watch so much and 2 why we pay a TV licence if we don't watch RTE.

So is it just me or do many feel the same?

Biggins

Your not alone.

landsleaving

You do have a choice, you're already online aren't you? Watch somthing on the interwebs.

Uriel.

Are you being forced to watch it? Seriously? How could you have "no choice"?

Badgermonkey

When Good Threads Go Bad 5

Watchin' it right now.

TeddyTedson

TV died in the 90s my friend.
Films too, rare to see a good one.
On the plus side, porn is rampant on the internet these days.

mink_man

Graham Norton on 3E at the moment is pretty good

Saila

one mans bear crap is another mans treasure, bear grylls is a great example of this

volvick

Uriel. wrote: »

Are you being forced to watch it? Seriously? How could you have "no choice"?

House bound, the house is clean, nothing else to do than tv and net. Answer your question?

landsleaving

Badgermonkey wrote: »

When Good Threads Go Bad 5

Watchin' it right now.

On tonight's episode:

An innocent debate about a flag turns into a full on battle for territory,

Posters get hot under the collar about gay marriage,

and Your Ma gets blasted - with what? Stick around to find out!

TV has been crap for years, the decline began in the late 90s. I hardly watch anything now.

Saila

volvick wrote: »

House bound, the house is clean, nothing else to do than tv and net. Answer your question?

when I was a young lad there were books and magazines

Oh_Noes

Yeah I agree. The internet is slowly but surely taking over from traditional television. Sky and the likes will be a thing of the past in a decade or so.

volvick

Saila wrote: »

when I was a young lad there were books and magazines

just finished 6 years of college - don't want to see another book for 6 years

Turtyturd

Saila wrote: »

one mans crap is another mans treasure, bear grylls is a great example of this

One man's piss is the same man's sustinace?

Krusader

Karsini wrote: »

TV has been crap for years, the decline began in the late 90s. I hardly watch anything now.

True, due to reality tv shows and pop idol rubbish that gets constantly beamed into our homes. MTV was cool in the 90's, my 67 year old mother watches it now that's how bad it's got

cml387

Karsini wrote: »

TV has been crap for years, the decline began in the late 90s. I hardly watch anything now.

It was crap when they introduced colour and did away with the test card.

ben.schlomo

Biggins wrote: »

Your not alone.

His not alone what?? :rolleyes:

ben.schlomo

plenty of good shows available, depende what you are into. The Wire, Dexter, Rescue Me to mention but a few.

RichieC

wouldn't bother with it... football only.

Saila

Turtyturd wrote: »

One man's piss is the same man's sustinace?

I should have said one mans bear crap, I was too subtle

cml387

cml387 wrote: »

It was crap when they introduced colour and did away with the test card.

Returning to a trade test transmission...

http://www.thesystempredicts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Testcard_F.jpg

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

bonzodog2

cml387 wrote: »

It was crap when they introduced colour and did away with the test card.

I can remember a test card in colour, think it was when BBC2 started. But I did grow up in UK though.

Biggins

bonzodog2 wrote: »

I can remember a test card in colour, think it was when BBC2 started. But I did grow up in UK though.

LOL

I remember it in black and white.

Biggins

ben.schlomo wrote: »

His not alone what?? :rolleyes:

...in thinking TV has often got worse.

There is the exceptionally good programmes still but they are becoming more rare and intermixed with a lot more frequent rubbish.
As others have already said, previous decades seem to have been better over all.

Biggins

Biggins wrote: »

LOL

I remember it in black and white.

*nerd hat on*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lh1DXRLilE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chft6GVtNWM

ejmaztec

mink_man wrote: »

Graham Norton on 3E at the moment is pretty good

Thank you for reminding me how bad TV is.:(

cml387

Well here's a lineup of classic television from the RTE schedule of the 30th August 1969 (younger viewers will need to be reminded that this was the only channel available to most of the country).


17:35 The Bugs Bunny Show Classic fun with Bugs and friends.
1800 The Angelus
1801 Children's Magazine
1805 Sports Final Sports results from RTE.
1815 The News An early-evening round-up of the latest headlines from the RTE newsroom.
1820 Bozo the Clown
1825 Orlando
1855 The Doris Day Show Family comedy series.
1925 Steady As She Goes
1955 An Naucht News in Gaelic.
2000 Don't Wait for Tomorrow
2100 Greyhound Racing
2130 The Main News, Sport and Weather Saturday's main evening news round-up from the RTE newsroom.
2145 Film: The Comedians
2335 The Late News Final news round-up from RTE.
2340 Closedown

Pauleta

TV is just very diluted. Thursday nights are also very poor.

18AD

Naked Gun 2 1/2 is on. Night made.

While on the internet

At this stage the tv is just on to give the impression that there're people in the house.

Terry

TeddyTedson wrote: »

TV died in the 90s my friend.
Films too, rare to see a good one.
On the plus side, porn is rampant on the internet these days.

There's porn on the internet?
Where?

OP; the telly is bad because people watch reality shows.
Reality shows rarely have to pay their subjects, so TV executives, in an effort to make more money for themselves, seek out oddballs and film them.

The reality tv thing will die out in time because people will eventually get sick of seeing shallow idiots trying to get their 15 minutes (yep, Warhol was right).

As soon as Osama Bin Laden takes out Simon Cowell, things should return to normal.

TeddyTedson

Terry wrote: »

There's porn on the internet?
Where?

You'll have to ask outlaw pete, he hooks people up with porn. I has me hooked after PMing me, I could have been underage, but no bother to Pete he has me hooked on some freaky dominatrix midget porn.

JupiterKid

There's hardly anything new worth watching that's shown on TV. Like the others opined, quality TV died at some point in the 90s. The only recent TV dramas worth watching in the past 5 years were Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes.

What astounds me is how many TV shows are recycled from the 70s and 80s. Many are great shows but I've seen most of them 5 times over by now.

Uriel.

volvick wrote: »

House bound, the house is clean, nothing else to do than tv and net. Answer your question?

No not an adequate answer :-p

bonzodog2

Biggins wrote: »

LOL

I remember it in black and white.

Well the colour test card wasn't the first one I saw !. Colour TV was up and running for many years before there was a colour set at home. I suspect the colour card was probably seen in a shop window.

In the UK for a while we had "dual-standard" TV sets during the changeover period from VHF 405 line B/W transmission and UHF 625 line with colour (if, of course you had a colour set). These sets would receive both transmisssions.

gosuckonalemon

volvick wrote: »

Is it just me or is TV crap and before anyone says something like "don't watch it so" I sorta have no choice at the moment. TG I have sky (basic may I add) and there is so much crap on the TV I can't see how 1 people watch so much and 2 why we pay a TV licence if we don't watch RTE.

So is it just me or do many feel the same?

There's your problem right there!

Duggy747

Since I moved to the current gaff in May last year I never bothered getting a TV. Had digital TV in the last house but there was nothing but utter, utter shìt on it and if I had to hear that fùckin' Two And A Half Men theme one more time then somebody was going to die.

Do not miss it one bit.

Funny how last week was the first time in months that I actually got to properly watch TV again at the sister's house and the TV Listings haven't changed a single bit. The same shìt on the same channels at the same time as always.

If I want to watch something I'll just get it from the web. At least I'm not getting raped on TV license and digital charges that way.

bonzodog2

But back on topic, yes OP it is IMO 99% crap. There are some gems however, for which I praise iPlayer and ToR. The Killing (Danish) and Spiral (French) spring to mind, both sub-titled in English. If you can cope with subtitles, they're worth it.

yummymummy76

nothin on tv, watch shows online

MagicSean

My tv is mostly used for my ps3 and the odd movie. Once a week i'll watch the programs ive sky plussed.

Frank Black

So much neagativity - the truth is we life in a golden age of television.
There's way more **** tv programmes around because there's way more tv channels to fill and the cheapest way to fill them is by producing loads of 'reality tv/celebrity tv' stupidness.
You just need to learn to filter out all the crap because some of the best tv in history has been produced in the last 10 years.
The Wire - The Sopranos - Dexter.

Mindkiller

TV sucks, but television has never been better.

iamstop

I got a think in the post about having to renew my TV license, thing is I'm due to move out of the country in a month after if is due. Can you pay per month or what?

Ottway

I stopped watching TV due to ads but now, apart from BBC iPlayer, there are more ads, infinitely more annoying ones also, online before shows I wish to watch. YouTube used to somewhat free of them, but they have gone nuts with ads this past year or so. I know that we wouldn't these shows if there was no ad revenue, but I want to have my cheesecake and eat it, damn it!

bodhrandude

volvick wrote: »

Is it just me or is TV crap and before anyone says something like "don't watch it so" I sorta have no choice at the moment. TG I have sky (basic may I add) and there is so much crap on the TV I can't see how 1 people watch so much and 2 why we pay a TV licence if we don't watch RTE.

So is it just me or do many feel the same?

Tune into Breaking Bad on Thursdays 11pm TG4, one of the very best. I have certain selections I tune into through the week, of course Breaking Bad on Thursday, Come West Along the Road RTE1 (If you like the trad) and Later with Jools on BBC2 Fridays. I do not watch that much telly as most of it is crap, so just tune into what you want to see.

Big Bottom

X Factor, Celebrity Get me out of here, and some others make for great TV!

Reality TV is the best to watch now!

gobnaitolunacy

TV has gone to sh*te, Celebrity Bainisteoir, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Celebrity Mastermind, Celebrity Toilet Cleaner, Celebrity Bus Driver....

Don't give 2 flying fcuks about so-called celebrities.

Fizman

iamstop wrote: »

I got a think in the post about having to renew my TV license, thing is I'm due to move out of the country in a month after if is due. Can you pay per month or what?

Be a mad whoor and just wing it for the month.

Regarding TV.....the problem is the amount of broadcasting that now exists. With there being so many channels.....there is now an incredible amount of crap. That being said, there are so many great TV shows on right now/over the past few years, that's it's never been in better shape in a way.

TV series are out-shining films at the minute, as all the talented writers want to work on something that lasts more than 2 hours.

It started with The West Wing and The Sopranos. The Wire continued on from there, now there are great seris like Band of Brothers, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Boss, Boardwalk Empire, Homeland, Entourage etc. There is something there for everyone.

Just stay away from TV3. Jasus wept.....the sh1te that appears on that. Also......avoid everything that has the word "Celebrity" in the title. Chances are, you'll struggle to find someone you recognise/give a sh1t about.

Capt'n Midnight

Karsini wrote: »

TV has been crap for years, the decline began in the late 90s. I hardly watch anything now.

from 1979

Nobody Home / The Wall / Pink Floyd.

I got elastic bands keepin my shoes on.
Got those swollen hand blues.
Got thirteen channels of shít on the T.V. to choose from.
I've got electric light.
And I've got second sight.
And amazing powers of observation.

Capt'n Midnight

cml387 wrote: »

Well here's a lineup of classic television from the RTE schedule of the 30th August 1969 (younger viewers will need to be reminded that this was the only channel available to most of the country).

Back then UTV and BBC were on VHF so you could pick them up in Dublin

Later the UK channels were on RTV rentals / Cablelink

But for a very long time it was just RTE BBC UTV and later BBC2

Tellys had the channel names written next to the buttons.

Future proofed, because they had SIX buttons