renth

Either look at the manual or goolge the make of DVD player and DivX which is the format of all these dodgy files.

moneypenny20

I remember watching "Have I got News" and "Jonathon Ross" for the last time before we left and feeling really quite sad I wouldn't see them again. When I have nothing to do I will try and work out that nova/torrent/lots of stuff I don't understand and impress myself

Not aware of missing them since I got here - just wiped them from the memory bank I think

MrsDagboy

Thanx Renth, I will check it out.

Tried to leave you a rude comment in your blogspot but it wouldnt let me leave one annonymously, I had to sign up

moneypenny20

I'm not completely useless at this computer stuff then Better go and have a look.

Centurion

Actually I was going to start a thread - but this ones nice and close.

I dont watch much TV. In fact next to nothing would be a good description. My wife and I study, read books, use the internet or.....(dont tell anyone) talk.... :scared:

We do have a TV and a digital set top box thing and at Uni everyone keeps on saying have you seen this or that etc. So I'm making an effort to try and not to appear to be a completely boring old git and getting a flavour of the TV here.

Now - heres the thing. I dont find it that bad. Really I dont. The only exception is that the BBC used to show some great dramas and things but then again I dont have to pay $300 a year for the privilige of owning a TV set here.

Seems to be a lot of US import stuff - but was SKY any different really ?

Just my thoughts on it. I think that the shouting down of Australian TV to be the crappest thing on the planet is perhaps an over reaction. US TV is my idea of horror - although having worked in Egypt if you really want bad TV.....

Hutch

I agree. I think the problems arise if your life revolves around the telly - and I think being *really* obsessed with it, is a British disease. The best thing I ever did was get the Sky Plus box - because I watch way less TV now, but when I do, it's always something I want to see. I'll certainly be getting the equivalent box in Oz.

At the start of the week I whiz through the program guide and stick an 'R' for record against anything interesting - some things I set up with Series Link to record an entire series. Then, when I do want to watch TV, I don't sit down and skip through the channels in the vain hope of finding something - I open the planner up and pick the first program on the list. So if I've got an hour or two spare I watch something I really want to see, rather than what the broadcasters have decreed I shall watch at that particularly time of the day.

It's ultimately about 'push' or 'pull' TV - in one case you're the boss and you get the very best out of a flawed system, with the other, they're the boss and you sit there like some grazing cow taking whatever's thrown at you! If there's something I *really* want to watch, that isn't on Oz TV, then I shall fire up Azureus and download it.

MrsDagboy

Ahhhhh, what I meant was I tried to leave one annonymously but it wouldnt let me, so I didnt .