WouldBe
Dislicksick
I don't have a car or a bike. If I want to watch I use the TV. If I want to listen I use the radio.
My 21 year old son does not watch TV..
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WouldBe
Dislicksick
Cid
Proper break this time
Yet it was mentioned up thread that podcasts are audio not visual so how do you watch an audio program?
I don't know about you but I don't find 'watching' the radio visually stimulating.
I suspect that is why BristolEcho qualified with 'YouTube and Podcasts', rather than just podcasts.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Like American TV looks now. 15 minutes of adverts with 2 minute TV breaks.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I don't think that is a good thing.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I wonder how many couples actually like the same TV, I certainly found my ex's TV tastes extremely boring, and she mine.
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NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Broadcast TV is a steaming pile of shit. Unskippable, cringeworthy and obnoxious ads all the time. 90% of the schedule is filled with absolute dross like reality TV, property shows, repeats, and other crap. If by some miracle there's something on TV that I actually want to watch, I can enjoy it better online. If I want background noise, I can instead put on a podcast that I actually want to listen to.
I abandoned TV more than a decade ago, and never looked back. Nothing since then has occurred to make me rethink that decision. I reiterate; broadcast TV is utter dogshit not worth bothering with.
The kids have the right idea in abandoning it.
I abandoned TV more than a decade ago, and never looked back. Nothing since then has occurred to make me rethink that decision. I reiterate; broadcast TV is utter dogshit not worth bothering with.
The kids have the right idea in abandoning it.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Quoted because it needed saying twice.
This is an issue. My wife only likes The Kitten Channel and programmes about flowers, whereas I'm exclusively into Men With Balls and The Drilling Network.
T & P
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Documentary channels are great though. Do you watch them? And they offer all kinds programmes, from serious highbrow stuff to cheap entertainment drivel. Unfortunately many of them are only available as add-ons or part of a subscription package.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Nope. Never think to. The documentaries I’m interested in don’t appear there. Not interested in user generated content
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
What does she stream? if you don't mind me asking.
Reno
The In Kraut
Quibi is a new streaming platform which tries to be the future of television and which attempts to translate the Netflix experience for the Youtube generation. It produces tv series where episodes last less than ten minutes and they are composed so you can watch them in portrait and landscape mode. The idea is that shows can be consumed in bits and pieces while people are on the move. Despite enormous investment, it's not doing well. Nobody talks about the content and few seem to be aware of the service.
www.vulture.com
Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
The streaming platform raised $1.75 billion and secured a roster of A-list talent, but it can’t get audiences to notice.
www.vulture.com
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Which is a good thing - who wants to talk to colleagues anyway.One of the arguments for broadcast TV used to be that everyone watched the same programs and had that in common to chat about at work the next day.
Doesn't work these days, or not much, far too fragmented.
strung out
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Dungeons and Dragons twice a week, craft once a week and a video game once a week. Other ad hoc streams if an advertiser has paid her to do something - she did one on the new Sandman audio drama for Audible recently, and she's doing one for the new WWE wrestling game later this week I think.
paul mckenna
Bellend
Even the head of BBC admits iPlayer is not a "destination" rather a specific catchup service.
The UK produces some of the best Western media around. Next step is own the "platform". We never seem able to make these kind of steps. Even Sweden with Spotify manages it
The UK produces some of the best Western media around. Next step is own the "platform". We never seem able to make these kind of steps. Even Sweden with Spotify manages it
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skyscraper101
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We definitely don't share the same taste, and have two TV's. Problem solved. The OH never watches regular TV, and just uses hers to watch YouTube, Netflix or Gaia.
I often leave her to it and go to the bedroom to watch my YouTube or Regular TV, or occasionally Netflix/Amazon/Britbox.
None of my offspring have TVs and I don't think they watch Netflix or I-Player either They didn't have a TV when they were younger and just never acquired the habit of it. I am hopeless and can't seem to manage any sort of screen stuff apart from basic text . Reading is still the most accessible vehicle to penetrate my dim brain As the youngest is 33 (oldest 44). they were definitely much more computer literate. A couple of them watch Youtube...but mainly stuff about plants or metalwork. T.hey are online a lot. We do have a TV though because sweetheart watches sport...which seems to be on a lot. And during lockdown, quite a lot of daytime drivel (4 in a bed, Come Dine and at the nadir, Judge Judy and Hollyhocks). While I can't watch anything which requires the tiniest concentration, if I have nothing to do, I can find myself lolling around on the sofa, mindlessly whiling away 20 minutes or so of Bargain Hunt.
We are oldish. Sweetheart has always had no interest whatsoever in the internet while I only know enough to look at plant stuff and chat shit on here.
We are oldish. Sweetheart has always had no interest whatsoever in the internet while I only know enough to look at plant stuff and chat shit on here.
Reno
The In Kraut
I would actually like to get back to watching more telly and hang less on the internet. It strikes me as the lesser evil. I just can’t find much I want to watch on German tv. The internet has been bad for my attention span and at times my mental health, in a way tv has never been a problem.
This year at least I‘ve made an effort to read more books again, I‘d almost completely stopped.
This year at least I‘ve made an effort to read more books again, I‘d almost completely stopped.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I need to do that also. Since I got a smartphone I have taken to watching the news for half an hour before I go to sleep, and that had been prime reading time.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I find that people at work just talk about the latest 'hot' Netflix show. . . probably more so than I have 'ever' heard anyone bimble on about what was on telly last.One of the arguments for broadcast TV used to be that everyone watched the same programs and had that in common to chat about at work the next day.
Doesn't work these days, or not much, far too fragmented.
T & P
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Streaming platforms suck arse to infinity when it comes to current affairs programmes. And whereas they can currently produce some goodl documentaries, the BBC still trumps every other broadcaster in the world when it comes to them- also such highly entertaining lifestyle/ non-fictional programmes such as the likes of The Repair Shop, Antiques Roadshow, Great British Bake-Off, The 1940s House (or whatever the fuck it was called), and similar stuff that is entertaining as well as informative. No streaming platform in the world has a chance in hell to produce similar output at present, any any meaningful quantities anyway.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
Quibi is a new streaming platform which tries to be the future of television and which attempts to translate the Netflix experience for the Youtube generation. It produces tv series where episodes last less than ten minutes and they are composed so you can watch them in portrait and landscape mode. The idea is that shows can be consumed in bits and pieces while people are on the move. Despite enormous investment, it's not doing well. Nobody talks about the content and few seem to be aware of the service.
Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
The streaming platform raised $1.75 billion and secured a roster of A-list talent, but it can’t get audiences to notice.
I tried the Quibi free trial just to see the hilarious GOLDEN ARM thing by Sam Raimi, who I'm a big fan of. It did not disappoint.
Every other programme was terrible
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