TV Winge
Jun 2nd 2008, 5:29 pm
#16
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Re: TV Winge
Sorry, I'm obviously missing the point.
You came halfway around the world, and you want to watch TV?
We hardly watched TV in UK, and have never tried it here.
We do have Foxtel, kids watch cartoons, OH subscribed to ?whatever? and watches key football games in UK. Just remembered, Sentanta Sport.
Mostly we are enjoying our new life without TV.
M
You came halfway around the world, and you want to watch TV?
We hardly watched TV in UK, and have never tried it here.
We do have Foxtel, kids watch cartoons, OH subscribed to ?whatever? and watches key football games in UK. Just remembered, Sentanta Sport.
Mostly we are enjoying our new life without TV.
M
I don't watch much tv here in the U.K but I still like to watch a few shows like Lost, Heroes etc.
Just because people are emigrating doesn't mean they don't want to veg out now and again.
You're hardly going to be 'enjoying the beach lifestyle' at 10pm on a Monday night when you have to get up for work the next day.
Jun 2nd 2008, 7:29 pm
#17
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Re: TV Winge
Is it just me or is Oz TV annoying.
I started to watch a film last week and every 8 minutes there was a break for adverts, and each break the adverts were the same.
Luckily I do not watch much TV but that was just a pain in the arse.
I now record everything and watch it later, fast forwarding the ads.
Bobby
I started to watch a film last week and every 8 minutes there was a break for adverts, and each break the adverts were the same.
Luckily I do not watch much TV but that was just a pain in the arse.
I now record everything and watch it later, fast forwarding the ads.
Bobby
Jun 2nd 2008, 11:17 pm
#18
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Re: TV Winge
We have Austar and can set the skyplus option to record. It drives me nuts when the show times are altered and I constantly miss the last 10 - 15 minutes of my recorded programme!!
We now set it to record for 1/2 hour AFTER the programme should have finished....
Sorry for watching TV since moving too!!!!
We now set it to record for 1/2 hour AFTER the programme should have finished....Sorry for watching TV since moving too!!!!
Jun 2nd 2008, 11:26 pm
#19
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Re: TV Winge
Sorry, I'm obviously missing the point.
You came halfway around the world, and you want to watch TV?
We hardly watched TV in UK, and have never tried it here.
We do have Foxtel, kids watch cartoons, OH subscribed to ?whatever? and watches key football games in UK. Just remembered, Sentanta Sport.
Mostly we are enjoying our new life without TV.
M
You came halfway around the world, and you want to watch TV?
We hardly watched TV in UK, and have never tried it here.
We do have Foxtel, kids watch cartoons, OH subscribed to ?whatever? and watches key football games in UK. Just remembered, Sentanta Sport.
Mostly we are enjoying our new life without TV.
M
Yes, would love to be sitting around in a hammock with a cocktail but alas one's day to day life is fairly similar here to one's day to day life back in UK (as you have demonstrated by your lack of viewing in both places - why would it be different for anyone else?).
p.s. they even have informative, educational stuff on tv sometimes too
Jun 2nd 2008, 11:53 pm
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bloody love that! a dose of ramsay followed by LTL - bliss!
Jun 2nd 2008, 11:56 pm
#23
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Re: TV Winge
Mind you, I almost missed it after coming back from shark fishing, then a walk through the outback to some large red rock. Walked over some steel bridge, then went to some place where they keep crocs and got a video of a sadly deceased bloke and his daughter.
Then drank in a load of bars and dodged the rain, phew, all in a day in oz.
Then drank in a load of bars and dodged the rain, phew, all in a day in oz.
Jun 3rd 2008, 1:15 am
#24
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Re: TV Winge
FTA television in Australia is truly pitiful. As has been mentioned before, they use every single trick in the book to avoid actually showing a tv show as opposed to the advertisements they need to make a buck out of this sparsely populated country.
I can't stand the "Channel 9 news break" fifteen minutes into a movie and an hour since the last effing News break - if i wanted to watch the nes i wouldn't have tuned in to a movie!!!
I despise the cross promotion they do here - 7, 9 and 10 are all guilty of it. For example, if 9 are showing an event live then i guarantee it will figure somehow in that evening's news bulletin. Why? It aint news! Same if a particular channel's 'personality' is involved in something...
I got FoxTel as soon as i lived in a house that was cabled. I use IQ to record everything and always ffw the adverts. Well worth the extra dollars.
As for showing sport 'live' when it is actually on a half hour delay so they can show adverts through it - another joke.
Thank god FTA are no where near (real) football else they'd be going to ads all the time like Channel 7 did when they buried the rights to soccer to appease the AFL.
Long live FOXTEL!
I can't stand the "Channel 9 news break" fifteen minutes into a movie and an hour since the last effing News break - if i wanted to watch the nes i wouldn't have tuned in to a movie!!!
I despise the cross promotion they do here - 7, 9 and 10 are all guilty of it. For example, if 9 are showing an event live then i guarantee it will figure somehow in that evening's news bulletin. Why? It aint news! Same if a particular channel's 'personality' is involved in something...
I got FoxTel as soon as i lived in a house that was cabled. I use IQ to record everything and always ffw the adverts. Well worth the extra dollars.
As for showing sport 'live' when it is actually on a half hour delay so they can show adverts through it - another joke.
Thank god FTA are no where near (real) football else they'd be going to ads all the time like Channel 7 did when they buried the rights to soccer to appease the AFL.
Long live FOXTEL!
Jun 3rd 2008, 5:19 am
#25
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Re: TV Winge
Mind you, I almost missed it after coming back from shark fishing, then a walk through the outback to some large red rock. Walked over some steel bridge, then went to some place where they keep crocs and got a video of a sadly deceased bloke and his daughter.
Then drank in a load of bars and dodged the rain, phew, all in a day in oz.
Then drank in a load of bars and dodged the rain, phew, all in a day in oz.
God... You get around a bit dont you!!!
Jun 3rd 2008, 5:26 am
#26
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Re: TV Winge
Yes, holiday mode does not continue forever, life does go on! Shopping has to be done, have to go to work, even cooking and cleaning has to be done too, so at the end of a long day some chose to wind down with a bit of tv!
Yes, would love to be sitting around in a hammock with a cocktail but alas one's day to day life is fairly similar here to one's day to day life back in UK (as you have demonstrated by your lack of viewing in both places - why would it be different for anyone else?).
p.s. they even have informative, educational stuff on tv sometimes too
Yes, would love to be sitting around in a hammock with a cocktail but alas one's day to day life is fairly similar here to one's day to day life back in UK (as you have demonstrated by your lack of viewing in both places - why would it be different for anyone else?).
p.s. they even have informative, educational stuff on tv sometimes too
:curse:
Last edited by emmyjc1; Jun 3rd 2008 at 5:29 am.
Jun 3rd 2008, 6:09 am
#27
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Re: TV Winge
I never ever watch free to air tv. I find it extremely frustrating that the ads are so frequent. I find it amazing that 1 minute before an aussie drama finishes they break to the ads for a good 5 minutes and then play the remainder of the programme.
Thank god for foxtel, well most of it
Thank god for foxtel, well most of it
Jun 3rd 2008, 6:22 am
#29
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Re: TV Winge
I never ever watch free to air tv. I find it extremely frustrating that the ads are so frequent. I find it amazing that 1 minute before an aussie drama finishes they break to the ads for a good 5 minutes and then play the remainder of the programme.
Thank god for foxtel, well most of it
Thank god for foxtel, well most of it
This is a ploy to stop you from changing channels when the show you are watching is over. The put the ads that would have been shown between the shows just before the end of that show then segue straight into the next show.
Sneaky...
Jun 3rd 2008, 6:24 am
#30
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Re: TV Winge
Is it just me or is Oz TV annoying.
I started to watch a film last week and every 8 minutes there was a break for adverts, and each break the adverts were the same.
Luckily I do not watch much TV but that was just a pain in the arse.
I now record everything and watch it later, fast forwarding the ads.
Bobby
I started to watch a film last week and every 8 minutes there was a break for adverts, and each break the adverts were the same.
Luckily I do not watch much TV but that was just a pain in the arse.
I now record everything and watch it later, fast forwarding the ads.
Bobby
There debate over!