New five DOG

If you get annoyed by the current five DOG, you are going to like
the one that is coming to your screens soon even less.

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In article ,
J G Miller wrote:

If you get annoyed by the current five DOG, you are going to like
the one that is coming to your screens soon even less.

Only if you watch channel 5.

-- Richard

"Richard Tobin" wrote in message
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In article ,
J G Miller wrote:

If you get annoyed by the current five DOG, you are going to like
the one that is coming to your screens soon even less.

Only if you watch channel 5.

-- Richard

Quite correct! I have removed '5' from my list of channels along with the
other **** like ITV1/2/3 etc.

Brian Gaff wrote:
Its not those that annoy me its the total waste of space of +1 channels that
annoys me.

I mean, with the advent of really cheap time shifter boxes which I prefer
to call them, what exactly is the point? The only one I can see is that
people who are really disorganised get to forget to record stuff they wanted
to see and catch it an hour later, well I'm sorry if that is the only
reason, then why not have channels that repeat everything an hour later on
for ever, Oh, yes those exist as well don't they.. grin.
Total shambles.

Speaking as somebody WITH a 2-tuner PVR (topfield)
I find +1 channels useful when there's a THREE way
clash; this sometimes happens in the 21:00 timeslot.

Lacking other repeats, the +1 channels become valuable to me.

I'd be just as happy with a "stupid O clock in the morning"
repeat on the main channel, of course.

BugBear

J G Miller wrote:
If you get annoyed by the current five DOG, you are going to like
the one that is coming to your screens soon even less.

http://www.flickr.COM/photos/onshore/5100860850/

Photo courtesy of djonshore.

I already avoid five due to the DOG so changing it won't make any
difference.
--
Adrian

On 22 Oct, 10:09, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
Its not those that annoy me its the total waste of space of +1 channels that
annoys me.

*I mean, with the advent of really cheap *time shifter boxes which I prefer
to call them, what exactly is the point?

The timeshifts of the main channels get _more_ viewers than most of
the smaller channels.

I have to admit to using them. I have plenty of series links set up on
my PVR, but that doesn't stop be popping the TV on, seeing the last
five minutes of something interesting on CH4, and being glad of having
CH4+1 there to record it for later viewing.

With a YouView box (iPlayer, ITV player, 4OD, 5 etc on the TV) this
would become less important - though I don't always watch things
within 7 days of broadcast, so I'd probably still record the +1
channel in this instance. I would just have to be organised enough to
catch the programme on-line within 7 days if the +1 channel wasn't
there.

At the end of the day, logic doesn't matter - it's how many people use
the +1 channels that matters! Just because we could all be organised
enough to not need them doesn't mean that we will.

Cheers,
David.

Mike Henry wrote:
In , bugbear
wrote:
Brian Gaff wrote:
Its not those that annoy me its the total waste of space of +1 channels that
annoys me.

I mean, with the advent of really cheap time shifter boxes which I prefer
to call them, what exactly is the point? The only one I can see is that
people who are really disorganised get to forget to record stuff they wanted
to see and catch it an hour later, well I'm sorry if that is the only
reason, then why not have channels that repeat everything an hour later on
for ever, Oh, yes those exist as well don't they.. grin.
Total shambles.
Speaking as somebody WITH a 2-tuner PVR (topfield)
I find +1 channels useful when there's a THREE way
clash; this sometimes happens in the 21:00 timeslot.

Lacking other repeats, the +1 channels become valuable to me.

I agree. Speaking as a TiVo owner who watches programmes not channels, the
extra showings are always welcome. The great thing is once I've set up
multiple Season Passes for a programme on each of its channels, I can
forget about it and just let the recordings flow in. I never need to worry
about which channel any episode is being recorded from. TiVo just picks
the one that doesn't clash first and handles it all for me without getting
two copies of anything.

I'd be just as happy with a "stupid O clock in the morning"
repeat on the main channel, of course.

Those are fine for me too. The more showings, the better! Some people may
not like the signing however.

The only problem with TiVo is they're getting rather long in the tooth
now and when they die will be very difficult to replace.

--
Adrian

Brian Gaff wrote:
Its not those that annoy me its the total waste of space of +1
channels that annoys me.

I mean, with the advent of really cheap time shifter boxes which I
prefer to call them, what exactly is the point?

I've often thought that - until recently. My wife goes out with her friend
on a Wednesday night so the things we like to watch have to be recorded and
watched together at a later time. Last night brought the first in the new
series of Bones on Sky1 at 21.00, Leverage on Bravo at 21.00, Castle on
Alibi at 21.00 and Burn Notice on FX at 22.00.

Sky+ box, of course can record two programmes at once so I set it to record
Bones and Leverage 21.00 to 22.00, got Castle on Alibi +1 22.00 to 23.00 and
Burn Notice on FX +1 23.00 to 0.00.

Thank goodness for +1 channels I say :-)

Adrian wrote:
J G Miller wrote:
If you get annoyed by the current five DOG, you are going to like
the one that is coming to your screens soon even less.

http://www.flickr.COM/photos/onshore/5100860850/

Photo courtesy of djonshore.

I already avoid five due to the DOG so changing it won't make any
difference.

I find people like you a bit strange to be honest. I watch "programmes" not
"channels". If there's a programme that I want to watch, I watch it, DOG or
not. I hate DOGs but they are here to stay so I'm not going to cut off my
nose to spite my face.

"Pete Zahut" wrote in message
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Brian Gaff wrote:
Its not those that annoy me its the total waste of space of +1
channels that annoys me.

I mean, with the advent of really cheap time shifter boxes which I
prefer to call them, what exactly is the point?

I've often thought that - until recently. My wife goes out with her friend
on a Wednesday night so the things we like to watch have to be recorded
and watched together at a later time. Last night brought the first in the
new series of Bones on Sky1 at 21.00, Leverage on Bravo at 21.00, Castle
on Alibi at 21.00 and Burn Notice on FX at 22.00.

Sky+ box, of course can record two programmes at once so I set it to
record Bones and Leverage 21.00 to 22.00, got Castle on Alibi +1 22.00 to
23.00 and Burn Notice on FX +1 23.00 to 0.00.

Thank goodness for +1 channels I say :-)


I'm in total agreement with all those supporting the +1 channels for all the
reasons given. I seldom watch anything on commercial TV without recording it
first to remove all the adverts, or we start watching it 15 minutes after
the start time. This sometimes results in three way programme clashes
especially (as others have noted) at the 21.00 slot.