Could the recent move of `five' to a PSB multiplex have been an actof futility?

The Gadget Show is mainly a waste of time, thanks to its presentation
style and ridiculous testing techniques, but other programmes such as
Monster Moves and Megastructures are actually very good, and often beat
anything on the other four channels at the same time.

I quite enjoy the Gadget Show, but I always watch from a recording, so I can
zoom through the silliest bits plus the adverts, the competition and the
"coming up after the break" bits, so it comes down to about 20 minutes or
so.

Paul

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:43:33 +0100
"Doctor D" wrote:
Pay for Five? ROTFL.

Five is among the better channels these days IMO, at least if you're into
gadget/machinery type programs.

Yes, I agree. I'm surprised, given the obvious interests of most folk
in this group, that C5 gets such a rough ride in here.

The Gadget Show is mainly a waste of time, thanks to its presentation
style and ridiculous testing techniques, but other programmes such as
Monster Moves and Megastructures are actually very good, and often beat
anything on the other four channels at the same time.

I agree too, Five has improved a lot, even the Gadget show is OK if you
think of it as the 'Top Gear' of gadgets (i.e. uninformative but
entertaining). FlashForward looks promising so far.
However there is no way I'm paying for it when I can download stuff (in
better quality currently).

Z

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:43:33 +0100
"Doctor D" wrote:
Pay for Five? ROTFL.

Five is among the better channels these days IMO, at least if you're
into
gadget/machinery type programs.

Yes, I agree. I'm surprised, given the obvious interests of most folk
in this group, that C5 gets such a rough ride in here.

The Gadget Show is mainly a waste of time, thanks to its presentation
style and ridiculous testing techniques, but other programmes such as
Monster Moves and Megastructures are actually very good, and often beat
anything on the other four channels at the same time.

I agree too, Five has improved a lot, even the Gadget show is OK if you
think of it as the 'Top Gear' of gadgets (i.e. uninformative but
entertaining). FlashForward looks promising so far.
However there is no way I'm paying for it when I can download stuff (in
better quality currently).

Z

What do you like better folks. The Gadgets show or Tomorrows World.

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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wrote:
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:43:33 +0100
"Doctor D" wrote:
Pay for Five? ROTFL.

Five is among the better channels these days IMO, at least if you're into
gadget/machinery type programs.

Yes, I agree. I'm surprised, given the obvious interests of most folk
in this group, that C5 gets such a rough ride in here.

The Gadget Show is mainly a waste of time, thanks to its presentation
style and ridiculous testing techniques, but other programmes such as
Monster Moves and Megastructures are actually very good, and often beat
anything on the other four channels at the same time.

I don't disagree Mark, but I wouldn't pay (BBC excepted) for those either!

My wife watches The Bill on ITV1 and that's the only time this household
regularly watches it. I occasionally watch ITV News if I've missed BBC News,
but when Central News comes on I watch in awe at just how badly TV can be
produced.

A look through my stored programmes shows BBC1, CH4, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4,
Discovery Channels and Dave feature most often.

"Nalla" writes:

What do you like better folks. The Gadgets show or Tomorrows World.

Tomorrows world as presented by Raymond Baxter. It was never the same
after James Burke came on the scene.

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:23:16 +0100
Graham Murray wrote:
"Nalla" writes:

What do you like better folks. The Gadgets show or Tomorrows World.

Tomorrows world as presented by Raymond Baxter. It was never the same
after James Burke came on the scene.

I prefer Click. Though it would be even better if it was longer and they got
rid of that pointless webscape section at the end.

B2003

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On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:39:22 +0100
Mark Carver wrote:
The Gadget Show is mainly a waste of time, thanks to its presentation
style and ridiculous testing techniques, but other programmes such as

Yes, its not what it was. Someones definately been upping Bradburys
amphetamine
dosage this series and instead of gadgets they seem to test any old crap
that
takes their fancy. The other week we had walking shoes FFS. With the best
will in the world , a shoe is not a "gadget" in the sense that techy types
mean and thats who the show is supposedly aimed at. And I remember some
white goods test , might have been fridges. I switched off at that point
tho.

Monster Moves and Megastructures are actually very good, and often beat
anything on the other four channels at the same time.

Don't forget Big Bigger Biggest too.






i liked the early days of five when they showed lots of soft porn and even a
porn video review show (!)
maybe the internet has rendered such stuff irrelevant.



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that fly...... is your magic wand....

I notice they seem to have now called 5us 5usa, what does the a stand for,
Awful?
Brian

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o.uk...

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news

How much longer will `five' stay on a PSB multiplex if it decides
to embrace a subscription tv model?

From
http://www.broadcastnow.co.UK/news/broadcasters/five-mulls-switch-to-pay-tv/5006289.article

QUOTE

Five mulls switch to pay-TV

1 October, 2009 | By Kate Bulkley

Five is considering taking its main terrestrial channel into the pay-TV
market as it investigates radical survival strategies.

Sources close to the broadcaster revealed the plan is part of a
potential
strategy to shift its *entire* channel portfolio (Five, Fiver, Five US)
to pay.

UNQUOTE

Pay for Five? ROTFL.

Offcom need to step in and tell them to be real I think, if they think they
are going to change the rules in the middle of the game. I'd imagine I'd be
quite happy with second run stuff on the free channels, why do you need it
as soon as it comes out?
Brian

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On 2 Oct, 10:43, "Doctor D" wrote:

Pay for Five? ROTFL.

You say that, but as part of various packages, people pay for (IMO)
far worse!

Don't know the financial details, but you would have thought being on
one of the two SD muxes with national coverage put them in a strong
position - that mux slot alone would be very valuable if it was
available on the "open" market.

Cheers,
David.

Java Jive wrote:
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:49:57 +0100, "Doctor D"
wrote:
A look through my stored programmes shows BBC1, CH4, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4,
Discovery Channels and Dave feature most often.

Discovery? On Freeview?

Actually, I've got a feeling that most of C5's science/tech documentaries come
from Discovery anyway ?

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