Things you hate about TV
Discussion
There are several things which really, really irritate me (but I'm sure to think of more):
Why, oh why, cannot TV channels synchronise the volume level between adverts/station idents and the programme or movie being presented? The other evening, my volume control was almost overheating as I was obliged to change it every few minutes from my normal level of around the high 20s to almost twice that!
And another thing; when a movie ends and they condescend to show the credits (sadly, these don't always get shown), why do they condense the credits into a box less than half the screen size while they announce a forthcoming attraction? It makes it even more irritating when the credits revert to full size and you have missed the cast list to be shown the REALLY important crew members such as Second Assistant Account! Why can't they wait until almost the end of the credits to make announcements?
And don't get me started on the BBC's profligate wastefulness spending our license money! I see Match of the Day has yet ANOTHER new studio set-up. I watch this to see the actual match action and to hear the pundits' views - the studio fixtures and fittings are a distraction I can do without.
Why, oh why, cannot TV channels synchronise the volume level between adverts/station idents and the programme or movie being presented? The other evening, my volume control was almost overheating as I was obliged to change it every few minutes from my normal level of around the high 20s to almost twice that!
And another thing; when a movie ends and they condescend to show the credits (sadly, these don't always get shown), why do they condense the credits into a box less than half the screen size while they announce a forthcoming attraction? It makes it even more irritating when the credits revert to full size and you have missed the cast list to be shown the REALLY important crew members such as Second Assistant Account! Why can't they wait until almost the end of the credits to make announcements?
And don't get me started on the BBC's profligate wastefulness spending our license money! I see Match of the Day has yet ANOTHER new studio set-up. I watch this to see the actual match action and to hear the pundits' views - the studio fixtures and fittings are a distraction I can do without.
K Stand Ken said:
And don't get me started on the BBC's profligate wastefulness spending our license money! I see Match of the Day has yet ANOTHER new studio set-up. I watch this to see the actual match action and to hear the pundits' views - the studio fixtures and fittings are a distraction I can do without.
Erm, it's a virtual studio. It doesn't really exist.I can't think back to the last time I sat down and watched a scheduled programme, some adverts and then whatever came on next.
I watch youtube, twitch, some occasional amazon prime. 99.9% of it via my pc and the 55" tv and surround setup etc downstairs only shows Sing, Frozen or some Ballerina one that has now upgraded the list that the kids watch from 2 movies to 3.
So many things annoyed me that I gave up watching regular tv.
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I watch youtube, twitch, some occasional amazon prime. 99.9% of it via my pc and the 55" tv and surround setup etc downstairs only shows Sing, Frozen or some Ballerina one that has now upgraded the list that the kids watch from 2 movies to 3.
So many things annoyed me that I gave up watching regular tv.
RW
Steven_RW said:
I can't think back to the last time I sat down and watched a scheduled programme, some adverts and then whatever came on next.
I watch youtube, twitch, some occasional amazon prime. 99.9% of it via my pc and the 55" tv and surround setup etc downstairs only shows Sing, Frozen or some Ballerina one that has now upgraded the list that the kids watch from 2 movies to 3.
So many things annoyed me that I gave up watching regular tv.
RW
This; I gave up on broadcast TV a few years ago, save for the F1 which even now I use the NowTV stream for. Dad is still on the TV bandwagon and I sit there an grind my teeth every time I have to endure a commercial break when I'm up at his and we're watching TV in the evening. I watch youtube, twitch, some occasional amazon prime. 99.9% of it via my pc and the 55" tv and surround setup etc downstairs only shows Sing, Frozen or some Ballerina one that has now upgraded the list that the kids watch from 2 movies to 3.
So many things annoyed me that I gave up watching regular tv.
RW
K Stand Ken said:
There are several things which really, really irritate me (but I'm sure to think of more):
Why, oh why, cannot TV channels synchronise the volume level between adverts/station idents and the programme or movie being presented? The other evening, my volume control was almost overheating as I was obliged to change it every few minutes from my normal level of around the high 20s to almost twice that!
This really fWhy, oh why, cannot TV channels synchronise the volume level between adverts/station idents and the programme or movie being presented? The other evening, my volume control was almost overheating as I was obliged to change it every few minutes from my normal level of around the high 20s to almost twice that!
ks me off, especially as I watch into the early hours. 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.
Exactly. I watch pretty much everything from a recorder and have to wind forward 5 mins from the beginning to get the actual start of the programme after the summary of the whole series and then the summary of the programme itself.My other pet hate are white subtitles in documentaries against backgrounds where there is no hope of reading them.
K Stand Ken said:
...Why, oh why, cannot TV channels synchronise the volume level between adverts/station idents and the programme or movie being presented?...
...And another thing; when a movie ends and they condescend to show the credits (sadly, these don't always get shown), why do they condense the credits into a box less than half the screen size while they announce a forthcoming attraction? It makes it even more irritating when the credits revert to full size and you have missed the cast list to be shown the REALLY important crew members such as Second Assistant Account! Why can't they wait until almost the end of the credits to make announcements?
THe first is general incompetence I think....And another thing; when a movie ends and they condescend to show the credits (sadly, these don't always get shown), why do they condense the credits into a box less than half the screen size while they announce a forthcoming attraction? It makes it even more irritating when the credits revert to full size and you have missed the cast list to be shown the REALLY important crew members such as Second Assistant Account! Why can't they wait until almost the end of the credits to make announcements?
The second is a crime. Time is money, no more creative credits a la Blackadder 2 these days, no more spare 3 minutes for a classic WB/Disney cartoon. The Britcom, 'Miranda' did try and combat it by enrolling the credits into a scene, but they still slice it. Every channel does this, but there are degrees of disrespect.
I hold view that...generally speaking...the higher the channel number, the less of s
tshow it is; so BBC One, is fairly professional channel, ScyFy channel at (15 or whatever) is run by shaved apes, and so on etc. The BBC are as bad as anyone when it comes to talking over the credits, but go lower down and the s
ttier channels are worse, shaving it closer, I've even watched stuff on (whatever the stty sky living used to be called) where they talked over the bleedin' programme, so you couldn't hear what the characters said in the final scene. Then you have fkwit channel like syfy who put big fking digital graphics over the screen to tell you what comes next, and what is on next week... WHAT THE SCREAMING fkITY fk? As if we don't know in this digital age. This ties into the DOGs. Digital Onscreen Graphics. All stty channels have them, save for BBC 1&2, and Sky Atlantic allows it's to remain for 5 seconds after the adverts finish (DOGs are not onscreen during adverts because that would be disrespectful to the adverts). I have no moral qualms about torrenting stuff when this stty behaviour is considered the norm.The other thing about talking during the credits is the destruction of the mood of the scene. The only channel I@ve seen try and stop themselves was Sky Atlantic. When some famous Game of Thrones eps finished (The Rains of Castamere as an example), there was music over the credits, to carry the mood...and SA respected this by not speaking...I recall as I was expecting the turd to start yammering. Though they don't do it for all eps, or big eps, or even for those shows that choose their end music wisely for emphasis (Sopranos etc).
Of course the good thing about the old shows they play at midnight and the like on SA is that they do not talk over the credits there.
The disrespect shown to the programme makers and the viewers by the channels has helped me whittle down my viewing to SA, BBC2...and that's it really, it's rare any other channel has something on that I want. They can even end up really ruining a good programme, like whatever that s
tty comedy channel is called that showed the US Office this/last year.f
k them allThe saturation of sub standard American comedy across TV.
The echo chamber that seems to have been created by recycling the same 6 "comedians" across the BBC, Channel 4 and Dave.
The total wall to wall coverage of Friends. It was st when it came out, it's st now, fans of the show lack imagination.
The lack of good sports coverage, like how Grandstand used to be.
The general dumbing down of TV content.
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.
The echo chamber that seems to have been created by recycling the same 6 "comedians" across the BBC, Channel 4 and Dave.
The total wall to wall coverage of Friends. It was s
t when it came out, it's st now, fans of the show lack imagination.The lack of good sports coverage, like how Grandstand used to be.
The general dumbing down of TV content.
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.
Adverts that are repeated far too frequently. Or any adverts for that matter.
Sky charging for the channels and having adverts is just awful, glad we got rid finally.
Canned laughter and anything involving Chuck Lorre or Kevin James.
Mindless reality TV being over hyped. Or shown at all for that matter, but I definitely don't need to know that bake off, love island or whatever is 'coming soon' for a month before it actually is.
Most things on ITV or Channel 5 are certainly not for me.
Sky charging for the channels and having adverts is just awful, glad we got rid finally.
Canned laughter and anything involving Chuck Lorre or Kevin James.
Mindless reality TV being over hyped. Or shown at all for that matter, but I definitely don't need to know that bake off, love island or whatever is 'coming soon' for a month before it actually is.
Most things on ITV or Channel 5 are certainly not for me.
I gave up on broadcast TV years ago. I don't have a TV, I don't watch TV through alternate means, so I don't have a licence, and I have more than enough stuff I could watch on YouTube, Netflix, Amazon etc.
The amount of utter dross put out there, the lowest common denominator, pointless, Strictly Celebrity Come Baking Jungle Island type of complete ste... ughhhhhh.
Who watches all this crap?
The amount of utter dross put out there, the lowest common denominator, pointless, Strictly Celebrity Come Baking Jungle Island type of complete s
te... ughhhhhh.Who watches all this crap?
sgtBerbatov said:
The general dumbing down of TV content.
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!
K Stand Ken said:
Why, oh why, cannot TV channels synchronise the volume level between adverts/station idents and the programme or movie being presented? The other evening, my volume control was almost overheating as I was obliged to change it every few minutes from my normal level of around the high 20s to almost twice that!
That ^^, by a mile!It's a legal requirement for the ads to be of a similar level to the main broadcast but everyone just ignores it, OFCOM have no teeth on the issue. It's one of the reasons I very rarely watch commercial channels anymore, that and the fact most of their output is brain-rotting s
te that is aimed at brain-dead morons. My TV is only used for Prime, the F1 (On C4, the only time I put up with adverts) and a few BBC programmes if they interest me. Even the ads in YouTube videos annoy me but there are ways to remove those, thankfully! Gave up on boradcast TV a while ago and now have Netflix, Amazon and my daughter watches Youtube, though I think we're dropping Amazon when it's up for renewal as we don't buy a lot from them or watch much that they show, plus the TV seems to struggle with the interface sometimes.
So Netflix and Youtube - and that'll be more than enough, we don't watch much TV anyway, but I think that's in part because we don't just switch TV on automatically as background noise, with NF and YT you actively seek out something to watch. We've also watched a lot of foreign language stuff that we'd never have seen if we'd just watched broadcast TV which often helps break the ice when I speak with foreign clients or collegues - to have seen some popular culture from their country seems to be a great way to engage someone.
I can't imagine going back to broadcast TV.
So Netflix and Youtube - and that'll be more than enough, we don't watch much TV anyway, but I think that's in part because we don't just switch TV on automatically as background noise, with NF and YT you actively seek out something to watch. We've also watched a lot of foreign language stuff that we'd never have seen if we'd just watched broadcast TV which often helps break the ice when I speak with foreign clients or collegues - to have seen some popular culture from their country seems to be a great way to engage someone.
I can't imagine going back to broadcast TV.
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