Things you hate about TV

[soad]

Used mine exclusively for (console) gaming, until it died. Wrong thread?

[AshVX220]

Jader1973 said:

Adverts.

I was watching a film last week and timed it: 9 minutes of film followed by 7 minutes of ads.

I turned off after that.

You think that's bad? My wife and I lived in the US for a while and she timed the film/advert ratio.....it was 5 minutes if film, to 7 minutes if adverts!

[anonymous-user]

Endless repeats, a lack of engaging new content, seeming abundance of ‘celebrity’/reality shows. It’s like they make programmes of inane st because producers have literally run out of ideas.

[rev-erend]

Drumroll said:

The need to continually recap on what has already happened less than 5 minutes ago. Some programmes have even started to tell us what is happening in the next section just before they go to an advert brake.

Now that is really annoying.

For instance all those with Guy Martin manage to stretch 30 mins of content into an hour and have all the annoying traits that you mention.

[hoffman66]

Simply put I haven't had a tv for years and have not paid a licence for just as long, they do not offer me what I require, sold all the stuff I want and pamper to the lowest common denominator of people who don't do anything in the evenings other than watch tv.

Phoning in is the required setting as it makes money, talent shows, reality tv pushing things to Partridge levels of idiotic programs, really there is not much to say it's worth it.

Not when you catch it all up later anyway.

[Riley Blue]

My five year old Panasonic 'smart' TV that is no longer 'smart'. Latest problem is its inability to show BBC iPlayer despite firmware upgrades, router re-boots and intermittent cursing - grrrrr!

[Johnnytheboy]

1. Advert breaks that are synchronised across many channels, so you can't have a flick round to other programmes while they are on.

2. Repetitive trailers, Channel 5 family I'm looking at you, my God do they get their money's worth out of their trails.

3. Every time I see a promising looking film advertised and it's the stty remake.

[Mr Pointy]

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[droopsnoot]

sgtBerbatov said:

The only saving grace is BBC Four, and even then that's had issues like cutting to the Wimbeldon Double's Final 20 minutes in to a good documentary about the Space Shuttle just because they were late for Top Gear.

That was particularly annoying because, if I recall correctly, there was no mention on either channel that they were switching over, just the same picture on both channels for a disturbing amount of time. Disturbing in my case because I'd been having trouble with my Freeview recorder (which would randomly swap from BBC1 to a random rubbish channel when watching), swapped it for a newer one, and just for that few seconds it looked like it had the same problem.

Yes, the volume thing is irritating, not just between ads and programme content, but inside programmes as well - I watch late at night sometimes, after others have gone to bed, so I need to keep the volume quite low. But I'm finding more and more that I have to keep adjusting things just to be able to hear. I could get headphones, I guess, but I'd rather not.

[Johnnytheboy]

I'm still waiting for the inevitable "I can't believe any of you still watch live TV anymore..." comment.

[K Stand Ken]

Mr Pointy said:

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Can you please rephrase them in less esoteric language?

[LimaDelta]

All of it.

Were it not for the OH I would happily do without a TV. That said I am 40 and have only ever bought 3 my whole life so I think I get off lightly. At least she is happy with TV integrated speakers and 'can't see in HD'.

[marcosgt]

Binge watchers

Limadelta said:

That said I am 40 and have only ever bought 3 my whole life so I think I get off lightly.

I'm 57 and I've only bought 2! Is there a prize?

M

Edited by marcosgt on Friday 16th August 16:19

[DaveGrohl]

Johnnytheboy said:

I'm still waiting for the inevitable "I can't believe any of you still watch live TV anymore..." comment.

That'll be me then?

Most hour long programmes are actually 40-45 mins long. Why would you want to spend 60 mins watching it? And then complain about adverts? Sky need to have a skip 4 mins button on their remotes, would make it easier than the 30x timing sweepstake me and the gf play. Even my BT box has a skip 1 min button. Live telly? Why?

[anonymous-user]

I watch maybe 3 hours a week plus f1 when it on, I watch youtube, netflix and amazon, I just watch what i want when I want.

[CypSIdders]

I have distilled my live TV viewing down to just MotoGP, WSBK, BSB and the road racing, other than that I watch Youtube, (woodworking, guitar building, Fishing, resto's, and spannering).

However, MotoGP, WSBK, BSB all share the same annoying trait, there'll be a cracking battle for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th but we have to cut away from this to watch the leader cross the finish line on his own. We then miss the last corner shenanigans that we've been following for the last 10 laps.
I'm fully aware that this is a contractual thing, however the technology exists to watch the, lonely, winner crossing the line in a separate small window on screen, but no, we have to have the st option!

fkin' muppets!

Oh yeah, Suzi Perry, she can FRO!

[sgtBerbatov]

droopsnoot said:

That was particularly annoying because, if I recall correctly, there was no mention on either channel that they were switching over, just the same picture on both channels for a disturbing amount of time. Disturbing in my case because I'd been having trouble with my Freeview recorder (which would randomly swap from BBC1 to a random rubbish channel when watching), swapped it for a newer one, and just for that few seconds it looked like it had the same problem..

Yeah, all that happened was you saw the space shuttle, then doubles. No mention that was happening at all, and I couldn't understand why they did that as they were banging on about the red button and had been showing other matches on that service throughout the tournament.

[andy_s]

That fecking plinky-plinky sad piano music in the background of every unfortunate narrative.
That fecking upbeat happy acoustic guitar background music whenever there is something supposedly happy being reported.
That fecking assumption that anything vaguely complicated needs to be told to us like we're 6 years old, usually with a big, happy patronising grin.
That fecking unerring ability of any news team to skim the surface of every issue but spend that same amount of time on it as a dissertation.

And adverts [deliberately set to a higher volume than usual].

[Halb]

Watched WInter SOldier tonight. The good thing about the animated credits and the mid-credit scene is that the fkwits don't talk, not until the flat credits, it helps keep the feeling of the film.

[bloomen]

Hub said:

This - particularly in relation to those scripted reality shows like Storage Hunters etc, which are the really over the top American ones, but also things like Wheeler Dealers.

The obvious fakeness makes them unwatchable and you lose trust in everything - nothing is real anymore!

The thing that amazes me about all reality TV ish type stuff is the relentless repetition and iron formula. Every single episode is basically interchangeable. You could swap them when someone was out the room and the chances are they wouldn't notice.

And progression of any sort appears to be taboo. Even stuff billed as exciting like Deadliest Catch, you wouldn't know if you were watching season 1 or season 91 and nothing has changed from the start of the episode to the end of it. There's a bunch of noise but nothing much actually occurs.