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Last week Sci-Fi channel was playing episodes of Law & Order: SVU; Comedy Central played a bunch of non-comedic movies like She's All That; Cartoon Network's been showing live-action TV shows and movies for awhile, and when was the last time you ever saw a music video on MTV or VH1?

What exactly are these TV execs thinking by doing this? It's like the Golf Channel deciding to show the NBA playoffs, they're not attracting any more viewers and just pissing off the people who actually watch their station. Or am I the only person to notice this?

TV sucks these days. get used to it...

everything will soon move the way of streaming media anyhow (i hope)

Last week Sci-Fi channel was playing episodes of Law & Order: SVU; Comedy Central played a bunch of non-comedic movies like She's All That; Cartoon Network's been showing live-action TV shows and movies for awhile, and when was the last time you ever saw a music video on MTV or VH1?

What exactly are these TV execs thinking by doing this? It's like the Golf Channel deciding to show the NBA playoffs, they're not attracting any more viewers and just pissing off the people who actually watch their station. Or am I the only person to notice this?
I think it's good. Theme-channels suck.

TV sucks these days. get used to it...


Yeah, plenty of other stuff out there to do...


I don't think i've actually sat down and watched TV in nearly two years. (DVDs and such don't count)

Yeah, plenty of other stuff out there to do...


I don't think i've actually sat down and watched TV in nearly two years. (DVDs and such don't count)
same here. and yes, dvds and watching tv are two different things. i watch an absolute shitload of dvds, but haven't sat down and intentionally watched a TV show probably since they stopped airing Star Trek Voyager at least 2 years ago, probably more like 3.

watched a fair bit at uni, but being too stoned to put on a dvd doesn't count :p
and i watch 24 round glitziness' sometimes, but thats mostly cos they watch it :) (and it does happen to be rather good :P)

Honestly don't really watch TV. I watch Sci-Fi for Stargate (both of 'em) and watch Nickelodeon for Avatar. That's the only time I watch TV at all.

Honestly there's nothing on TV most of the time, good shows are routinely canceled and replaced with absolute crap. There's no reason to bother.

I don't think i've actually sat down and watched TV in nearly two years. (DVDs and such don't count)
But do DVDs of TV series' count? Considering my collection of British sitcoms from the '80s (most awesomest decade ever), this makes a fairly major difference for me.

But do DVDs of TV series' count? Considering my collection of British sitcoms from the '80s (most awesomest decade ever), this makes a fairly major difference for me.
i don't think so. its not a matter of what the content is, but how its delivered. if you're choosing to put a dvd on, then thats one thing. if you're sitting down and absorbing what someone else has decided to broadcast, then that's quite another.

besides, with the amount of nerd-trek i watch i think i'd count as a TV-aholic if that were the case :p

(my new TV (http://www.hlj.me.uk/pics/Photo-0163.jpg) (displaying NS via DVI) :D)

But do DVDs of TV series' count? Considering my collection of British sitcoms from the '80s (most awesomest decade ever), this makes a fairly major difference for me.

Nah, that's what I mean. I'll sit down and watch Red Dwarf or Futurama DVDs, etc. from time to time, but I won't actually watch commercial TV for them. Most shows I actually like are long dead (or I missed a few episodes along the track and never got back into the show, eg. Stargate).

I think it's good. Theme-channels suck.
Only if you are utterly incapable of changing channels. In which case, yeah, I guess they do kinda suck.

Only if you are utterly incapable of changing channels.
Hey, that's hard work. First you have to pick up the remote (a process that often involves leaning forward and looking around to see where you dropped it), and then you have to pick up the remote, point it in the right direction, find the channel buttons, push them, and drop the remote again when you find something watchable.
Have you any idea how hard that is? The process burns, like, 100 calories and takes about 65 seconds. That's valuable masturbation time/energy you're cutting into there, buddy,

Hey, that's hard work. First you have to pick up the remote (a process that often involves leaning forward and looking around to see where you dropped it), and then you have to pick up the remote,
I guess it would be very hard work if you're picking up the remote twice :D

I've essentially stopped watching T.V. entirely. There are only three T.V. shows I have any interest in anymore--Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, Stargate: SG-1, and Stargate: Atlantis--and I just download episodes of those off the internet and then delete them when I'm done. No need for a television subscription when I move out. It'll save me a lot of money.

I never really watch TV much...I watch 24 with one of my friends, and me and my roommates watch trashy reality TV, but even then, its just on in the background.

However if hockey is on, I will be watching.

I may or may not be that kid who watches on TV untill a commercial, then sprints to my car and has it on the radio...