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Bill Wright wrote:
: I suppose ten million out of 60 million is about right. The others have
: lives.

Aggorant assumptions!

That's 10million subscribers out of the number of TV watching
families in the UK. Something more like 20million I think.

It's a total fallacy that someone like myself with SkyTV watches
MORE TV. I just don't hapen to LIKE soaps, reality TV, medical
dramas, other dross etc. on terrestrial TV!

Mark Carver wrote:
: Only 12x?

Did I not say "at least 12x" clearly enough for you!

Brian Mc wrote:
Mark Carver wrote:
: Only 12x?

Did I not say "at least 12x" clearly enough for you!

No you didn't !

You said, and I quote:-

"I don't think they have
bothered me at less than 12x speed since I got Sky+ "

You need to calm down, you're getting rather over defensive, but go on
have the last word....

Mark Carver wrote:
On 19/09/2011 11:07, Brian Mc wrote:

Luckily for the rest of us 10 million people don't agree with you!.

The really lucky ones are the BSkyB shareholders

What are these adverts of which you speak? I don't think they have
bothered me at less than 12x speed since I got Sky+

Only 12x? my Toppy PVR can instantaneously jump ad breaks in pre defined
chunks, but I'd rather sit and watch an hour's worth of TV without
having to hold the remote.


I remove the adverts before watching.

--
Adrian

Brian Mc wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:
: I suppose ten million out of 60 million is about right. The others have
: lives.

Aggorant assumptions!
I've always been an aggorant blister! I know it aggoravates people.


That's 10million subscribers out of the number of TV watching
families in the UK. Something more like 20million I think.
Yes, it's about 32% actually. The intellectual and moral underclass is
quite large.


It's a total fallacy that someone like myself with SkyTV watches
MORE TV.
Well you pay a high rate per hour for what you do watch then. I watch
about 5 hours a week. That would cost me about three quid an hour if I
watched it on Sky. The TV licence costs me about 50p per hour, and for
that I also get all the BBC radio stations. If you were paying Sky 50p
per hour you'd have to watch getting on for 30 hours of telly a week.
When you add to that sleeping and sitting on the lavatory there's not
much time left for that lifer I was telling you to get.

I just don't hapen to LIKE soaps, reality TV, medical
dramas, other dross etc. on terrestrial TV!
Well don't watch them then! Read a book! Make a bookcase! Write a book!
Go to the zoo!

The fact is, anyone like you that is prepared to sit watching telly
every evening, night after night, hour after hour, is very unlikely to
clock up much solid achievement in their life because they just don't
have time. Obviously I don't count the consumption of huge numbers of
cans of lager and junk food as an achievement.

Must go. I'm off to my basket weaving class now.

Bill

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:55:54 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:53:21 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

Brian Mc wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:

: I can't understand why people pay all that money to Sky when there
are
: so many good free channels. How much time do you have to watch TV?

It's not for you to worry! Plenty of people have both the money and
time it
seems! In my own case it if for sci-fi (most of which NEVER comes to
terrestrial channels these days), US series (ditto...substituting many
for
most) and documentaries.

It depends how many series you want to see, but if it's only two or
three
surely it's more cost effective to buy the DVD boxed set [1], and watch
that
instead ? Has the advantage of not having a commercial break every ten
minutes, pop up on screen messages saying 'All New Essex Sluts coming
next',
and some tosser shouting all over the end credits. How anybody can
consider
that 'value for money' is beyond me !

[1] Then flog it on ebay afterwards. Oh, and of course there are even
cheaper
though not entirely ethical methods to obtain TV series.

I've noticed that two episodes of anything is now considered as a
series by the BBC. When economies start to bite can we expect the one
episode series?

I would say at the same time as we start to see 0 episodes series. A
single episode program, by definition, cannot be a 'series', only a
program.

--
Regards JB Good

On Monday, September 19th, 2011 at 23:56:58h +0100, Johny B Good wrote:

A single episode program, by definition, cannot be a 'series', only a
program.

"Heil Honey! I'm Home" was a single transmitted episode program of a
series.

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:55:54 +0200, Martin wrote:

I've noticed that two episodes of anything is now considered as a
series by the BBC. When economies start to bite can we expect the one
episode series?

Series 13...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108967/episodes