foxbat - 22 January 2010 08:25 PM

Has anyone else noticed just how much thiswhole forum has been inundated with spammers lately….?

Foxbat - Long time no repertoires !!!
I know what you mean, It’s like reading a Script from “Crossroads Motel”
OMG - TV !?!

DSB.

mike_walsh - 09 February 2010 11:46 AM

I trawled Pravda for news items and received a lot of Russian spam; it has dwindled now though.

Note to self - Don’t trawl “Pravda” (?)
DSB.

As far as my personal experience with tv is concerned, I have gotten along without one for the last 4 years and didn’t really miss it. Just for watching the news or anything of the kind it would have been quite useful. Now, I purchased one and have been noticing that I barely even use it since I have gotten used to not having one. I don’t even really need it and do not watch it conciently, just while doing something else and to feel accompanied. But I am of the opinion that being surrounded by real people is so much better.

Bealer… if you’re looking for television shows, then http://www.cucirca.com and http://www.letmewatchthis.com aren’t bad places to look. Don’t know if I’m allowed to post those links or not though

heath1974 - 22 June 2010 06:24 PM

Bealer… if you’re looking for television shows, then http://www.cucirca.com and http://www.letmewatchthis.com aren’t bad places to look. Don’t know if I’m allowed to post those links or not though

Thanks Heath.
DSB.

will you can posts the links but frist time posters cant post links that spam ... there be removed , just fill in on few this sites , where fine in court and told two closed down and then the comuster are now bwwn followed aswell for braking the law aswell . See what going to happen . get a dish its your and it for life

Jurdy

the only thing I watch on tv is the hockey games during our LONG winters here in Canada…and those I can stream online so I doubt a tv would be needed at all….would much rather be sitting outside having a cold one and talking up the locals! I ain’t moving somewhere just to sit inside and watch tv!! LOL

henrypinto11 - 08 January 2011 05:32 AM

Now a days there are so many areas for entertainment but Television is the best thing for entertainment. Without TV anybody can not move in the world. In teenage, the main effects of TV are knowledge, news, TV shows and many more. Life without TV becomes boring.

Disagree totally.

What is TV ?
TV is a device to watch Television Programmes, and that used to be the only choice.
Nowadays “TV” broadcast, aside from the BBC etc, are taken up by 1-2/3rds of ADVERTS.

TV is nothing more than a loss leader.

Internet TV however, alows you to watch what you want when you want without adverts.
( Aside from torrents of course )
Aside from that there is actual “finger interaction” with the Childrens learning Sites, fantastic.
In closing, why do you think “TV” now have box’s for Google / Ytube and or firmware within for “surfing” ?

Because they are seeing the migration from “TV” to internet on-line demand.
In essence, TV Station online services have almost been their worst enemy by effecting their “TV” subscribers.

Love TV, hate adverts, Need Internet.
( P.S: Computers had higher Definition before “TV” )
DSB.

bealer Hi…

Henrys post deleted as SPAM.

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foxbat - 08 January 2011 03:58 PM

bealer Hi…

Henrys post deleted as SPAM.

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Sigh…...........
DSB.
( thanks for the update though )

mike_walsh - 19 November 2009 12:05 AM

I am not being judgemental; each to their own but I haven’t had a television for years. Yet my life is full and I couldn’t be more contented. I don’t miss it at all. As a matter of fact it would cause me a dilemma if I ‘pulled’ as I would not only then be sharing my life with a lady; I would be sharing it with a television. I am not so sure about the latter.

Does anyone else have views for or against? Perhaps thinking of pulling the plug out permanently? I do use the set I have to watch DVDs and play CDs but it just isn’t hooked up to receive television. I cannot imagine myself ever owning a television again.

I have a television on my house since last 20 years and now I see the many programs regularly there also I have a internet connection with whom I updated with the latest news.

I feel like tv is useless too, but I absolutely love HBO/Showtime shows. They are like movies or amazing Novellas. They have expensive productions and well-thought out plots, amazing set designs, just as you see in an expensive movie. I have always preferred movies to tv and most of my friends are the same as me….no tv but the occasional “novella”/HBO show.

When my European friends moved to the US they were hooked.

Brenna in California

These days I’m simply finding that if there’s anything worth watching, I can usually watch it “on demand” via the internet.

Being a bit of a science fiction fan, I watched both series of the V remake online, only to discover the other day, that there won’t be a third series as it’s been cancelled by ABC.

Obviously it wasn’t hitting their required audience figures (and thus, advertising revenue), but what does surprise me in this day and age, is why many of these networks don’t show some of these programmes online and try to generate an additional audience there. Surely they realise that the viewing potential and advertising revenue benefits are far greater?

mike_walsh - 19 November 2009 12:05 AM

I am not being judgemental; each to their own but I haven’t had a television for years. Yet my life is full and I couldn’t be more contented. I don’t miss it at all. As a matter of fact it would cause me a dilemma if I ‘pulled’ as I would not only then be sharing my life with a lady; I would be sharing it with a television. I am not so sure about the latter.

Does anyone else have views for or against? Perhaps thinking of pulling the plug out permanently? I do use the set I have to watch DVDs and play CDs but it just isn’t hooked up to receive television. I cannot imagine myself ever owning a television again.

It will be dead.

I had this conversation recently and I feel quite strongly about it. My argument was people love the notion of a life without television, thinking they will be more culturally stimulated, fulfilled, even more intelligent or a better human being. This in my honest opinion is utter nonsense; the only bad thing about television is watching too much of it and having to pay for it by watching advertising. Particularly in Spain where the quantity of advertising is incredible I simply can not abide commercial television. Channels like La Sexta, where not only do we have to wait 10 minutes to watch the last 5 minutes of a movie, we also need to watch random comedians or musical interludes during major sporting events.

The quality of some television and cinema as entertainment or education is very high, particularly movie and drama coming from the United States or documentaries from the BBC for example. I do not believe it can be discounted as a cultural medium as valid as any other. I download tv from the internet and stare at a glaring screen, sometimes for hours, without interacting much with the people next to me but I also do that while reading and posting on the internet or reading books.