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tim.... wrote:

I watch far too much TV :-(


I'd love to watch more. There are more good progs than I have time for.

Bill

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:58:36 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Yes in the old days, with three vcrs, you had so much to watch you found you
were watching Christmas shows at Easter, however nowadays, there is so much
crap and regurgitated crap and Super crap compilations of crap and home made
crap that even one recorder is often too many!
Moral of the story, More channels does not mean more to watch, it means that
you thin down the content so much its more like water than emulsion paint,
which of course is what you watch drying if you want real entertainment
these days.

Still a bugger though when there are only three programmes worth
watching one evening and they're all at the same time. You have to
watch one live and catch all the sodding adverts.

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:05:26 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:58:36 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Yes in the old days, with three vcrs, you had so much to watch you found you
were watching Christmas shows at Easter, however nowadays, there is so much
crap and regurgitated crap and Super crap compilations of crap and home made
crap that even one recorder is often too many!
Moral of the story, More channels does not mean more to watch, it means that
you thin down the content so much its more like water than emulsion paint,
which of course is what you watch drying if you want real entertainment
these days.

Still a bugger though when there are only three programmes worth
watching one evening and they're all at the same time. You have to
watch one live and catch all the sodding adverts.

Out of three channels I'm sure there must be one with no adverts.

Steve


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"Albert Ross" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:58:36 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Yes in the old days, with three vcrs, you had so much to watch you found
you
were watching Christmas shows at Easter, however nowadays, there is so
much
crap and regurgitated crap and Super crap compilations of crap and home
made
crap that even one recorder is often too many!
Moral of the story, More channels does not mean more to watch, it means
that
you thin down the content so much its more like water than emulsion
paint,
which of course is what you watch drying if you want real entertainment
these days.

Still a bugger though when there are only three programmes worth
watching one evening and they're all at the same time. You have to
watch one live and catch all the sodding adverts.

You watch one of them "live" and when the das come on you start to replay
one of the others keeping an eye on the PiP for the end of the ads :-(

tim

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:49:12 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

I can beat that by *lots*

MythTV with dual DVB-T tuners and dual DVB-S2 tuners, each tuner
configured to record 4 simultaneous programmes per mux/transponder. It
could probably cope with more simultaneous recordings if I tried,
storage is on 8x500GB SATA disks.

I've always wanted to have a go at MythTv, is there a dummies guide
anywhere? I've had a go before but my eyes glazed over trying to set it up,
it's hard to unlearn Windows.

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:39:43 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:05:26 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:58:36 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Yes in the old days, with three vcrs, you had so much to watch you found you
were watching Christmas shows at Easter, however nowadays, there is so much
crap and regurgitated crap and Super crap compilations of crap and home made
crap that even one recorder is often too many!
Moral of the story, More channels does not mean more to watch, it means that
you thin down the content so much its more like water than emulsion paint,
which of course is what you watch drying if you want real entertainment
these days.

Still a bugger though when there are only three programmes worth
watching one evening and they're all at the same time. You have to
watch one live and catch all the sodding adverts.

Out of three channels I'm sure there must be one with no adverts.

Then you can't empty your bladder

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On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:25:28 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:39:43 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:05:26 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:58:36 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Yes in the old days, with three vcrs, you had so much to watch you found you
were watching Christmas shows at Easter, however nowadays, there is so much
crap and regurgitated crap and Super crap compilations of crap and home made
crap that even one recorder is often too many!
Moral of the story, More channels does not mean more to watch, it means that
you thin down the content so much its more like water than emulsion paint,
which of course is what you watch drying if you want real entertainment
these days.

Still a bugger though when there are only three programmes worth
watching one evening and they're all at the same time. You have to
watch one live and catch all the sodding adverts.

Out of three channels I'm sure there must be one with no adverts.

Then you can't empty your bladder

I can but I'm not going to say how.

Steve

--
Neural network software applications, help and support.

Neural Planner Software www.NPSL1.com

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On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:21:33 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:25:28 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:39:43 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:05:26 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:58:36 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Yes in the old days, with three vcrs, you had so much to watch you found you
were watching Christmas shows at Easter, however nowadays, there is so much
crap and regurgitated crap and Super crap compilations of crap and home made
crap that even one recorder is often too many!
Moral of the story, More channels does not mean more to watch, it means that
you thin down the content so much its more like water than emulsion paint,
which of course is what you watch drying if you want real entertainment
these days.

Still a bugger though when there are only three programmes worth
watching one evening and they're all at the same time. You have to
watch one live and catch all the sodding adverts.

Out of three channels I'm sure there must be one with no adverts.

Then you can't empty your bladder

I can but I'm not going to say how.

G

It's not until you've become used to recording all your TV that you
realise what a total pain Programme Planners are, running programmes
on different channels "in competition" to prevent you watching them
both/all, overrunning, shouting over end credits, endless trailers,
not to mention DOGs. All except the DOGs can be worked around, as can
pee/coffee breaks, answering phone calls etc. Makes the process an
order of magnitude more civilised but unfortunately cant improve the
programme content or production quality.