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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 25, 2022 1:37:51 GMT
Oh, one has to wonder why most stories based in the future nowadays are 'post apocalyptic'. Incidentally, one of my sons insists he never watches TV, and I cannot convince him that he does. What he actually does is watch content made for tv, via his PC streamed to his 59" TV. Go figure. "Alas Babylon" by Pat Frank was released in 1959, and was about a future where the USSR and the US had a nuclear exchange.
If you consider the times and how people react to their times, 'post apocalyptic' stories serve both as a what-if and entertainment.
Per your son, watching content made for TV streamed through a computer to a 59" TV would still qualify as watching TV.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2022 7:25:55 GMT
Oh, one has to wonder why most stories based in the future nowadays are 'post apocalyptic'. Incidentally, one of my sons insists he never watches TV, and I cannot convince him that he does. What he actually does is watch content made for tv, via his PC streamed to his 59" TV. Go figure. TV has many channels. You can flip. There are ads. Brainwashing. Buy this, buy that, be cool. Downloading a show and watching it is a dose of art. |
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jan 25, 2022 14:14:15 GMT
Oh, one has to wonder why most stories based in the future nowadays are 'post apocalyptic'. Incidentally, one of my sons insists he never watches TV, and I cannot convince him that he does. What he actually does is watch content made for tv, via his PC streamed to his 59" TV. Go figure. "Alas Babylon" by Pat Frank was released in 1959, and was about a future where the USSR and the US had a nuclear exchange.
If you consider the times and how people react to their times, 'post apocalyptic' stories serve both as a what-if and entertainment.
Per your son, watching content made for TV streamed through a computer to a 59" TV would still qualify as watching TV.
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jan 25, 2022 14:19:45 GMT
Oh, one has to wonder why most stories based in the future nowadays are 'post apocalyptic'. Incidentally, one of my sons insists he never watches TV, and I cannot convince him that he does. What he actually does is watch content made for tv, via his PC streamed to his 59" TV. Go figure. TV has many channels. You can flip. There are ads. Brainwashing. Buy this, buy that, be cool. Downloading a show and watching it is a dose of art. |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 25, 2022 19:09:24 GMT
"Alas Babylon" by Pat Frank was released in 1959, and was about a future where the USSR and the US had a nuclear exchange.
If you consider the times and how people react to their times, 'post apocalyptic' stories serve both as a what-if and entertainment.
Per your son, watching content made for TV streamed through a computer to a 59" TV would still qualify as watching TV.
The fine for watching TV without a license in England is £1,000 [up to £2,000 in Guernsey]. A standard UK TV license is £159, while a B&W UK TV license is £53.50. www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/detection-and-penalties-top5
You might want to advise your son to not get caught. £1,000 is a bit expensive to pay for watching TV.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2022 21:49:08 GMT
TV has many channels. You can flip. There are ads. Brainwashing. Buy this, buy that, be cool. Downloading a show and watching it is a dose of art. Neverending choices. You sit there like a vegetable flipping during commercials even. Also, did you notice how loud and piercing commercials are. Almost like a different frequency. I might be offending TV lovers. My apologies. |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 25, 2022 22:29:01 GMT
Neverending choices. You sit there like a vegetable flipping during commercials even. Also, did you notice how loud and piercing commercials are. Almost like a different frequency. I might be offending TV lovers. My apologies. We rarely watch broadcast TV as most of the channels can't be picked up out here without a rather pricey antenna.
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jan 26, 2022 1:26:08 GMT
In the UK they no longer have Detector vans patrolling around searching for the radiation or whatever, that comes off old types of TVs. Instead if you buy a new TV you have to sign a declaration with name and address to say you have bought one. But that does not apply to secondhand ones. So how they police it now I have no idea. It's very rare you hear of any one taken to task over not having a licence. Considering the BBC's vast output I have no objections to paying what is peanuts a day.
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jan 26, 2022 1:27:41 GMT
"Neverending choices. You sit there like a vegetable flipping during commercials even. Also, did you notice how loud and piercing commercials are. Almost like a different frequency. I might be offending TV lovers. My apologies." The reason they do that is they know you use advert breaks to go for a wee  |
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jan 26, 2022 1:33:54 GMT
Neverending choices. You sit there like a vegetable flipping during commercials even. Also, did you notice how loud and piercing commercials are. Almost like a different frequency. I might be offending TV lovers. My apologies. We rarely watch broadcast TV as most of the channels can't be picked up out here without a rather pricey antenna.
Needless to say I don't miss the commercials for drugs [among other items] I had to put up with back when we had cable or lived in town.
A lot of American content (which we get here too) has so many advert breaks and What you have just seen and What you are about to see reminder stuff that the actual 1 hour progs are only about 10 mins long! |
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jan 26, 2022 1:39:05 GMT
American television fare is a huge embarrassment to me.
On behalf of my "normal" countrymen, I apologize to the world.
When I DID watch any television, I found that British, Canadian, and Australian shows were head and shoulders above the garbage produced here, not only in story writing, acting, directing, and filming, but in maturity of the target audience. It seems most American TV is shallow and written for the lowest common denominator.
But what would I know? I never watch the Boob Box anyway, other than the occasional American Football game. Other than that, it a huge wasteland.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 6:47:42 GMT
We rarely watch broadcast TV as most of the channels can't be picked up out here without a rather pricey antenna.
Needless to say I don't miss the commercials for drugs [among other items] I had to put up with back when we had cable or lived in town.
A lot of American content (which we get here too) has so many advert breaks and What you have just seen and What you are about to see reminder stuff that the actual 1 hour progs are only about 10 mins long!Kill it, Kevin. Throw it in the ocean and come for a walk with me. Actually, it's been hailing here the last few days. I sit in my car and watch the people swimming, the hail hitting their shoulders. 😬 |
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Jan 26, 2022 22:05:25 GMT
I walk also, and many other things. |
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