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by **Marion** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 9:46 pm

Depends what you consider as good. I do watch things on BBC 3 and 4 sometimes (Freeview in the UK) but I don't often watch any TV these days. I think the fact that people have the internet and the i-player facilities - which I do use on occasion, for instance, some of the Mods recently had a Grand Night Out at the 'virtual' Last Night of the Proms, although we were miles apart! O-beer-O

- allows you to concentrate far more on things you are interested in .

I am a late model Baby Boomer too and when I was growing up there were only 2 - and then 3 - TV channels, and they broadcast shows once a week and there were no videos to allow you to watch your favourites again or give you a chance to catch up if you missed them. For a good part of my childhood my family did not have a TV set at all, so watching a programme was for me a special event anyway.

Even when there were 3 channels - and we had a TV to watch them on - I generally watched only 2 of them: the BBC ones, because I had discovered at a very early age that I was allergic to adverts :wink:

Even now if I happen to find something I fancy watching and it comes to a commercial break, I generally switch off and go and do something more interesting until the DVD comes out.

I am sure that every generation comes along with their own ideas and norms and - believe me - the older I get the less inclined I am to bother with 'yet another technical miracle'. I mean my mobile phone makes phone calls - so what more do I need it to do? Sometimes, I even switch it on. :wink:

by **Elentari** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:49 am

captain canary wrote:Yeah, I guess if you don't like some of the stuff they show it can be hard to find something you'd want to watch.
***I guess it's harder for people that aren't used to having more than five channels to remember when and where something good is being shown too.***

HAHAHAHAHAAHA (give me a minute and I'll try to stop laughing)

Welcome to the forum Captain Canary!

It’s looks like it is going to be livened up a bit….due to your quite astonishing capacity to put your foot in it. 8M-M)

Well it's certainly made me laugh anyway.

Speaking as Someone Apparently Unable to Manage More than Five TV Channels at any one time, when my memory begins to fail a light bulb goes on….it suddenly occurs to me that there is such a thing as a TV Guide. Quite a brilliant publication, isn’t it? :wink:

But I digress…..what to watch (or not) is of course a matter of personal preference. Frankly IMO much of the new stuff on Oz TV is garbage….and the interesting thing is recent TV viewer ratings seem to reflect this, right across viewer ages.

At the risk of being accused of denigrating the ‘younger generation’ (in this case teens-to-20s) there’s a TV channel here that pitches its programs at viewers of that group, but their recent offerings have been so dire that (ahem) ‘not even their targeted audience would watch them’. Quite a revelation to baby boomers like me who knew from the first minute they were screened, the shows were going to be duds, but imagined younger viewers would watch them anyway. Apparently they won’t. :grin:

Who knew? (Certainly not the TV executives). ;-$

There’s a digital channel here that screens mostly old sitcoms, comedy shows etc and I suspect there have been nights when it’s been preferable to watch the millionth repeat of Get Smart, Bewitched or The Munsters than sit through another excruciating reality show, screeching wannabe singer, or a soap with no discernable plot. Lots of new channels and crisp digital signals do not better TV viewing make...not when the programs are rubbish. :cry:

by **captain canary** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:09 pm

I wasn't trying to insult anybody. I just don't understand why someone my age can't even manage Freeview. Scarlet Lady doesn't seem all that incompetent and she says she's not a technophobe either, so it's weird. That was all I was trying to say. My friend's got FV and it comes with a built in TV Guide, so any one should really be able to manage it without too much difficulty... unless it's the number of buttons on the remote that causes confusion, of course.

I like some TV sitcoms and I also like some reality stuff. Ever heard of Strictly Come Dancing? It's ace!

$\D/$

by **Intensity Angel** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:17 pm

I enjoy watching Strictly Come Dancing for the technical aspects of dancing as I do latin ballroom dancing as a hobby. It's a good way to keep fit and on your toes!

I asked my Dad about the advert to see if he could remember it and he luckily he did, it was for a documentary that had been done on Gerry Anderson by the BBC.

In my opinion, it's an advert as it was promoting the documentary to try and get people to watch it in the same way a cleaning product company does an ad to get people to buy a product.

by **captain canary** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:36 pm

That's a good point. Adverts advertise, doesn't matter what it is they advertise.

by **Intensity Angel** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:36 pm

They're even louder than the tv shows as advertisers know people tend to go out of the room to get a drink or something.

by **captain canary** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:38 pm

Yeah. That's annoying. I turn the sound off, usually.

by **Intensity Angel** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:37 pm

Me too! Or turn it right down before I leave the room.