Hard News: TVNZ: The Sub's Pencil Strikes
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Yep - They're called "Torrents" and rely on some delightful person overseas ripping and making available shows. For example, we watched the last Boston Legal about 3 weeks ago.
To be honest the only reason I do it is to avoid the ad's. I wouldn't even mind if the advertising was targeted so it was something I'd be vaguely interested in buying... and therein lies the future model for the YouTube/Google marriage.
And there's also your answer about the burbs: if you want to know who watches TV, shut your eyes and form a mental picture of the type of person who would buy the products that are being advertised...
I think FTA will be around for a while, but frankly anyone with a bit of disposable income pays in one way or another to avoid having some half-wit insult their intelligence suggesting they would be interested in processed food or feminine hygiene products.
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Isn't there some (highly illegal) system out there that lets you view broadcast TV streams over the net?
Slarty has mentioned torrents. You might also be thinking of a system where someone streams their tv straight to a feed. I've never tried it, and I can't give you a name, but I understand it works quite well. A friend uses it to watch sport that we don't get in NZ, and he says it's fairly clear and works well live. You also get to watch the person at the other end changing channels during ad breaks!
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FTA is still big. I went to a pub quiz the other night and a full 25% of the questions seemed to refer to people or events one would only know if they were a regular TV watcher.
There are moments when I regret my puritan "no TV" lifestyle.
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anyone with a bit of disposable income pays in one way or another to avoid having some half-wit insult their intelligence suggesting they would be interested in processed food or feminine hygiene products.
Yeah, right. That explains why Sky runs ads does it? You pay for subscriber TV but they run ads anyway. But since they can't sell as many ads they fill it with promos. When Sky started running six minute breaks I finally gave up in disgust, and cancelled.
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When Sky started running six minute breaks I finally gave up in disgust, and cancelled.
Sorry, but am I the only person who hits the mute button and does something else (six minutes is long enough to make a cup of tea and go to the loo) - or, considering how often I tape stuff, just fast forward though the ads?
Oddly enough the person I know who bitches about ads on TV the loudest has a coffee table groaning under airfreighted fashion mags - and a month where the majority of pages in Vogue or Vanity Fair aren't advertising is a very bad one indeed, at least as far as Conde Nast are concerned.
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Fear not Craig, I do not sit thru six minutes of ads. I have PIP (picture-in-picture) so I surf the other channels (usually music) while waiting for a programme to resume. But six minutes is ridiculous for a Pay TV service so I made a stand.
As I result on one person's actions (mine) the Sky TV share price dropped .000002ยข that day.
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