Monday, April 28, 2008
BAD ADS'
Most ads' annoy me but every so often one or two deserve special mention. Currently the Berocca advert tops the list. You know? The one where they are doing choreographed moves on treadmills. If you're going to rip off a world famous YouTube video at least put in some effort and bring something original to the table. This is way below even being half-arsed.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
GOING DOWNHILL FAST
Have I got News for you. Bring back Angus Deayton or kill this show off. The first two of this new series have been weak.
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Watching Ross embarrass his guests is becoming cringeworthy. The Ian Wright/Kirtsty Gallagher interview being a good example and this weeks "would you have sex with an animal" question to everyone in the Green Room.
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Watching Ross embarrass his guests is becoming cringeworthy. The Ian Wright/Kirtsty Gallagher interview being a good example and this weeks "would you have sex with an animal" question to everyone in the Green Room.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Pirate TV
Managed to see the Calzaghe V Hopkins bout in the early hours even though I don't subscribe to Setanta and didn't pay a penny. How? I watched it via a stream. If you didn't know already, pretty much every sporting event is now broadcast over the internet in something akin to pirate radio broadcasting. I don't know exactly how it works but it seems some generous souls connect up their satellite/cable box to their PC and then 'stream' the events over some type of P2P connection. You can virtually guarantee that any event is being broadcast on a sports channel somewhere in the world so if you don't mind the commentary being in Chinese, or worse, by Americans, then you're sorted.
There are websites that post links to forthcoming streams but they aren't always reliable. Last night the links to the Calzaghe fight directed me to a site that wanted to install 'Zango' onto my computer first, which appeared to be some sort of nasty ad' generating spyware, so I had to look elsewhere to find a working link. These links usually appear only a short time before the event so it realy feels like you're trying to find the details of a secret warehouse party or rave back in the 90's.
I managed to get a working link for the fight even though the picture was a little choppy and one side of the screen was a live chat room full of overt racists and xenophobes. Unfortunately, it only lasted three rounds before the dreaded 'buffering' message appeared followed shortly after by a 'not broadcasting' message. Cue lots of WTF's!!! and NOOOOO's!!!!! on the chat window.
A frantic hunt found a Sopcast link to the HBO broadcast and I was able to view the rest of the match with only the occasional pauses.
This method of 'TV' viewing still seems to be something of an underground practice but it can only increase as word gets round. Then the TV channels are really in trouble.
There are websites that post links to forthcoming streams but they aren't always reliable. Last night the links to the Calzaghe fight directed me to a site that wanted to install 'Zango' onto my computer first, which appeared to be some sort of nasty ad' generating spyware, so I had to look elsewhere to find a working link. These links usually appear only a short time before the event so it realy feels like you're trying to find the details of a secret warehouse party or rave back in the 90's.
I managed to get a working link for the fight even though the picture was a little choppy and one side of the screen was a live chat room full of overt racists and xenophobes. Unfortunately, it only lasted three rounds before the dreaded 'buffering' message appeared followed shortly after by a 'not broadcasting' message. Cue lots of WTF's!!! and NOOOOO's!!!!! on the chat window.
A frantic hunt found a Sopcast link to the HBO broadcast and I was able to view the rest of the match with only the occasional pauses.
This method of 'TV' viewing still seems to be something of an underground practice but it can only increase as word gets round. Then the TV channels are really in trouble.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
WELCOME!
Welcome to BYEBYETV, my TV review blog. I say TV but you know how it is nowadays, you're just as likely to be watching on your ipod or bittorrent or whatever new fangled digital media content delivery sytem has been invented by the time I hit the 'publish' button.
I hope this blog will be a success, infact I'm desperate, I need this more than anything and my grandad who died last month always said I should start a TV review blog. But above all, I just want to give my poor kids a better life!
Okay none of that is true, but if you're a 'hopeful' you have to have a story or you just won't get noticed. Just ask every contestant on Britain's Got Talent which has just started it's second series and so far is following exactly the same formula as the last series. Oh, and the same formula as the last series of The X-Factor and probably all the other shows that involve auditions that I can't bring myself to watch one minute of.
The stand out acts so far are singing kids (one who says he's been bullied, natch) a Duncan Norvelle lookalike who does comedy pop star impersonations and who may or may not have anything better in the next rounds and a Phillipino lady who looks a bit Ting Tong but can actually sing quite well. The rest is predictable filler; obligatory nutters, deluded O.A.P's, terrible animal acts, toned young men jumping about and little girl dance troupes sponsored by Max Factor.
How much longer before Cowell's bubble bursts?
I hope this blog will be a success, infact I'm desperate, I need this more than anything and my grandad who died last month always said I should start a TV review blog. But above all, I just want to give my poor kids a better life!
Okay none of that is true, but if you're a 'hopeful' you have to have a story or you just won't get noticed. Just ask every contestant on Britain's Got Talent which has just started it's second series and so far is following exactly the same formula as the last series. Oh, and the same formula as the last series of The X-Factor and probably all the other shows that involve auditions that I can't bring myself to watch one minute of.
The stand out acts so far are singing kids (one who says he's been bullied, natch) a Duncan Norvelle lookalike who does comedy pop star impersonations and who may or may not have anything better in the next rounds and a Phillipino lady who looks a bit Ting Tong but can actually sing quite well. The rest is predictable filler; obligatory nutters, deluded O.A.P's, terrible animal acts, toned young men jumping about and little girl dance troupes sponsored by Max Factor.
How much longer before Cowell's bubble bursts?
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