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    Just a quick whinge...

    I really hate:

    • TV channels bombarding us with adverts for what's on next week
    • TV episodes starting with what happened last episode, and worse:
    • Finishing with a precis of what's happening next episode
    • On channel 4 and Channel 5, when telling us what is happening next/tomorrow/next week/2043 squeezing the picture so that I have no chance of reading the credits for the whatever it is I just watched, which by definition is far more likely to be of interest to me than whatever is being shown on the half-screen.


    Whinge over.

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Why don't you stop watching tv and get a life

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    I really hate:

    *Whinge about TV*

    Whinge over.
    I recently bought an idiot proof recordable digibox thingy and its revolutionised TV for me


    I spend five minutes looking through the programmes and when I see anything of interest I simply press OK.

    You can even search for certain 'words' e.g. 'dance' and it'll find everything with that word in it and its got 100hrs available space. You can even record two channels at once and watch a different one.


    Its amazing, I can easily watch 3 programmes in the space of one, once I've fast forwarded all the crap!


    I'd highly recommend it!
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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    • TV episodes starting with what happened last episode
    I like that. Especially on 24 when it reminds me of significant plot developments which might've happened a few episodes ago, but are important to the current episode.

    re: the credits thing - I agree, it is annoying. Does the Radio Times still put in the credits in its listing?

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lou View Post
    re: the credits thing - I agree, it is annoying. Does the Radio Times still put in the credits in its listing?
    Not a complete listing. Barry likes to look up the Best Boy.

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Well when I moved into my flat in Jan I had LOUSY TV reception. Guys from SKY were a bunch of A$$h*les everytime they came round they'd suck through their teeth and make some feeble excuse why they couldn't fit a dish (even though my neighbours had dishes in the same relative places)

    Same when I wanted a new arial fitted. So anyway I have now got a digibox and an internal arial so I only get bbc 1 to 3, ITV 1 to 4 , and channel 4. I don't get e4 , film4, more4 etc etc..

    So my moan is more with the installation guys in Aberdeen than what's actually being shown on the box. Oh.. and for Talisman Oil for building a big oil company office block that towers above all the surrounding flats directly between the Transmission antenna and the flats on my street .. GRRRR!!!

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Dump the TV and read a good book!

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    Well when I moved into my flat in Jan I had LOUSY TV reception. Guys from SKY were a bunch of A$$h*les everytime they came round they'd suck through their teeth and make some feeble excuse why they couldn't fit a dish (even though my neighbours had dishes in the same relative places)

    Same when I wanted a new arial fitted. So anyway I have now got a digibox and an internal arial so I only get bbc 1 to 3, ITV 1 to 4 , and channel 4. I don't get e4 , film4, more4 etc etc..

    So my moan is more with the installation guys in Aberdeen than what's actually being shown on the box. Oh.. and for Talisman Oil for building a big oil company office block that towers above all the surrounding flats directly between the Transmission antenna and the flats on my street .. GRRRR!!!
    It's a long shot, but if you (and enough residents) complain I believe you can have them install a fill-in repeater. It is (or used to be) part of the licence fee, that you could have reception. (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.)

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by azande View Post
    Dump the TV and read a good book!
    why do you think I have 800+ dvds

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    TV? What's that? Can't be doing with it! So many more things to do.

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    TV channels bombarding us with adverts for what's on next week
    Especially on the BBC which has no...ahem..adverts...

    TV episodes starting with what happened last episode, and worse
    its just filler - imagine how annoying it would be if after every 5 chapters in a book you got a "summary of chapters so far" chapter....grrr

    Finishing with a precis of what's happening next episode
    I hate this the most, introducing major plot points and scenes from the next one is VERY ANNOYING INDEED. I took to switching Dr.Who off very quickly at the titles becasue they did that. A prologue is very different and to be welcomed if they do such a thing, which is rare in TV I think.

    On channel 4 and Channel 5, when telling us what is happening next/tomorrow/next week/2043 squeezing the picture so that I have no chance of reading the credits for the whatever it is I just watched, which by definition is far more likely to be of interest to me than whatever is being shown on the half-screen.
    Indeed, annoying. Ive got another tv hate too. How is it that when the adverts are on and you flick channels - the majority of the other channels have adverts on too? would it be so difficult to stagger advert breaks so that this doesnt happen across the multitude of channels you get nowadays? Surely its not rocket science or..could it be an agreement between the channels so that viewers dont browse and find something more interesting at an advert break ?

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    its just filler - imagine how annoying it would be if after every 5 chapters in a book you got a "summary of chapters so far" chapter....grrr
    In some of Dickens' novels, which were originally published one chapter per month in magazines, you do.

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    I took to switching Dr.Who off very quickly at the titles becasue they did that.
    Blimey! Switching off something that you don't want to watch? What a novel idea!

    Was going to reply to another bit, but ESG beat me to it.
    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    In some of Dickens' novels, which were originally published one chapter per month in magazines, you do.
    As I said before, it's very handy if there's a break of a week or more between episodes. Especially as I've got a memory like a .... errmmm.... one of those fish things... they're a kind of orangy-gold colour... What are they called... ? Anyway... errmmm... Now what was I saying?

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lou View Post
    Now what was I saying?
    Who are you? hmmmmm come to think of it who/what am I

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lou View Post
    As I said before, it's very handy if there's a break of a week or more between episodes. Especially as I've got a memory like a .... errmmm.... one of those fish things... they're a kind of orangy-gold colour... What are they called... ?
    Salmon ? Clown Fish ? dunno...

    ok besides episodic novels its not that common , and dont try and say you wouldnt find it annoying in a book or, if not annoying, less than useful and probably skippable if you have a memory better than Lou

    I must admit the "previously" is not as annoying as the "coming next week" though

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by WittyBird View Post
    Who are you? hmmmmm come to think of it who/what am I
    you're Britney Spears and you're married to someone called Kevin.

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    you're Britney Spears and you're married to someone called Kevin.
    Thank you, that's most helpful

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Is this the “Grumpy (old) men/women thread”?

    Pet TV peeve of mine – shows where they have an ad break, then when next part starts, they spend the first two minutes going over what was covered in the previous part of the programme which was probably only 10 minutes long anyway, then they have a second ad break and at the start of part 3 they go over what happened in the previous two parts… arghhhh!!! They obviously think that their viewers have the attention span of the uhm, fishy thing you were just talking about…

    The final part of the programme is usually a précis of however many previous parts there have been and a conclusion. Is this just a way of not having to shoot very much footage? Or a sneaky way of getting the “repeats” in early?!

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by Twirly View Post
    Is this the “Grumpy (old) men/women thread”?
    Yes, now go and be cheerful somewhere else

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    Re: Just a quick whinge...

    Quote Originally Posted by WittyBird View Post
    Yes, now go and be cheerful somewhere else
    Who suggested I'm cheerful today?! Knackered, hungover, whingy...

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