They should move to a daily pay access system. Every morning they e-mail you their schedules for the next day and you decide whether to given them 50p for access to it.
I estimate that under that system I might spend £20 a year with them, tops.
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They should move to a daily pay access system. Every morning they e-mail you their schedules for the next day and you decide whether to given them 50p for access to it.
I estimate that under that system I might spend £20 a year with them, tops.
There really is nothing on TV any more. So I'm told anyway ... I haven't had a telly since 2004. (And previously lived without one for most of the late 80s and 90s - but when the kids are tiny you have to have something to shut them up). The only time I ever miss live TV is election night (and there's always the wireless). Though back in the 80s and 90s I did used to go round to a mate's house on a Monday night to watch Star Trek.
Of course there's now much on wireless either. They've killed The Archers turning it into an isshoos show (kiss of death any time a programme ends with the dreaded 'If you have been affected by ...' bollocks) ... it's supposed to be entertainment FFS not a public information propaganda broadcast, what is it 1943?.
In Our Time and Start the Week on R4, and The Early Music Show on R3 are still quite good but a whatever it is, a tenner a month? I don't think so.
I get a letter off them every 2 years or so that assumes I'm some kind of criminal. Well they can still go and sod thmselves.
I got fed up with coming down on Saturday morning and finding my two lads lapping up the short(ening) attention span, ad-laden, facile toss that is provided for the young, impressionable mind by our broadcasters. We came back from that years holiday to find the telly had stopped working (no fuse, how could it?) and it got pushed up to the top of our track and the council called to collect it.
We went telly-less for a few years then some friends had a film show on the side of their house with a ...projector. I didn't even know these existed, but I learned fast. We started watching stuff again, DVDs from friends, library and the car boot.*
No ads.
No short attention span toss, at least not unless I went out and purposfully got the DVD of Short Attention Span Toss vii ( The Phantom Menace)
More lately, like Jez I imagine, a certain inter-national sharing culture has filled my heart and I find most of what I want to see is out there, and pretty nippily too. A lot that you wouldn't see with a TV and a licence, too. Mostly in quality above that of a DVD.
You know I haven't had to sit through that incredibly ****ing annoying "You wouldn't steal a" bollocks at the start of a DVD for, oooh, years now.
Yes, there was a certain amount of consumer resistance to not having a telly at the time from the lads. More lately one offered the opinion, unsought, that he was really glad we'd done it. Both at UNI now, the missis and me are used to this now. Projector looks great (JVC HD1) sound is better than the cinema. We get to see stuff that's actually worth watching. The last BEEB program I thought was anywhere near what they should be doing was Wolf Hall.
* I even bought some.