Just caught the back end of a documentary on Channel 4 about the impact of the internet on TV

 

It was quite interesting in so far the current model of people watching telly at peak times as now going to dwindle into obscurity over coming decades due to the effect of the internet.

 

It focused on yoof, but had a few interesting points about the marketing companies facing a quandry over where to advertise their wears.

 

A lot of people have the telly on in the background when they are on the net and treat it almost like background noise like a radio. The time they pay least attention is when the ads are on which fucks marketing men right off!

 

Then you've got a almost infinite entertainment resource at your fingertips. Why bother with the comparitively restrictive box?

 

Discuss

Edited September 29, 200916 yr by squidgy66

It's got little to do with the tinternetweb.

 

People are switching their TVs off, because there's feck all decent to watch on it.

also helped by the fact there is fuck all on tv except cunts being judged on ballroom dancing or pop singing! .

Edited September 29, 200916 yr by Traf
Offensive post.

Also, SKY+ has been a major factor in the down-fall of advertising.

 

In our house-hold we mainly watch from the planner rather than what's actually on at the time.

 

Tell me do you watch stuff on your planner, then fast forward when the ads come on? I certainly do.

I reckon that across the freeview channels there is a fair amount of decent TV each week. My PVR is always 70-80% full of stuff I haven't watched yet. Watching recorded stuff lets you zip through the adverts too.

The problem for the ad men with TV is saturation, we have elevety seven channels and watch next to none regularly.

 

I'd be more than content with just 3.......

 

Sky Sports News

Discovery

Porn

 

What does any other man need?

What they should do is put the internet into your tv. Problem solved. Next.

The problem for the ad men with TV is saturation, we have elevety seven channels and watch next to none regularly.

 

I'd be more than content with just 3.......

 

Sky Sports News

Discovery

Porn

 

What does any other man need?

 

QVC

QVC

 

Pikey cunt

It's got little to do with the tinternetweb.

 

People are switching their TVs off, because there's feck all decent to watch on it.

 

But surely the two are intrinsically linked?

 

Wasn't it about the time the Internet became widely available to the masses that TV dumbed down with all these fly on the wall docu-soaps and the like?

 

Less advertising monies = less money to squander on production budgets

Pikey cunt

 

Sorry, I meant Bid Up TV.

Sorry, I meant Bid Up TV.

 

I'd have you down as one of those men watching Jems TV

I'd have you down as one of those men watching Jems TV

 

 

I heard Gems TV was the chosen channel for real men!

 

P.S. Why the fuckedy fuck is that X factor drivel on 2 nights a week these days? It's dogshite!

I heard Gems TV was the chosen channel for real men!

 

P.S. Why the fuckedy fuck is that X factor drivel on 2 nights a week these days? It's dogshite!

 

Because the Great British public want to see it.

 

There's no accounting for taste: 4 million buy The Sun each day, and Greggs is always busy at lunchtime.

Because the Great British public want to see it.

 

There's no accounting for taste: 4 million buy The Sun each day, and Greggs is always busy at lunchtime.

 

 

Deep down, I know that's the answer but it still saddens & sickens me.

I suppose the public wants what the public gets, or is it the public gets what the public wants? I'll you what though, I want nothing this societys got!

Also, SKY+ has been a major factor in the down-fall of advertising.

 

In our house-hold we mainly watch from the planner rather than what's actually on at the time.

 

Tell me do you watch stuff on your planner, then fast forward when the ads come on? I certainly do.

 

Thats what we do , record one night watch the next ... its the future

once i've watched my 7 hours or wrestling i've sky+'d and the endless ammounts of footy Sky sports show, i generally only watch the Simpsons, or FX and Dave

I record nothing.

 

If it wasn't important enough to watch first time around, there's little chance of me sitting down to watch it later.

 

Busy, busy, busy: you see.

I record nothing.

 

If it wasn't important enough to watch first time around, there's little chance of me sitting down to watch it later.

I'm pretty much the same, if I don't watch it "there and then" there is very little chance of me finding time to watch it at a later date.............having said that, I have been "recording" The Inbetweeners on a Friday night, in order to watch them first thing on a Saturday morning.

 

Traf, how do you get around the dichotomy of X-Factor and Strictly Dancing being on at the same time? - do you still have two televisions in your living room for such issues?

I recently went two weeks without a television or the internet, and it was BRILLIANT!

Until you dont use them at all you dont realise how much of your life you waste on them.

I went back t'ert wireless and newspapers, and picking my nose.

I recently went two weeks without a television or the internet, and it was BRILLIANT!

Until you dont use them at all you dont realise how much of your life you waste on them.

I went back t'ert wireless and newspapers, and picking my nose.

 

I recently went 3 months without the internet and I didn't really miss any of you it.

 

As for the Strictly vs X Factor conundrum: I have X Factor on my laptop and I only watch the dancing part of Strictly: the talking bits bore me.

I recently went 3 months without the internet and I didn't really miss any of you it.

 

As for the Strictly vs X Factor conundrum: I have X Factor on my laptop and I only watch the dancing part of Strictly: the talking bits bore me.

 

Did you resort to picking your nose too?

Did you resort to picking your nose too?

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

 

Toenails on the other days.

Did you resort to picking your nose too?

only if that's a euphemism for "wanking ones self senseless"

Aaaaah a thread hijacked by wanking yet again ::

 

Back to the thread

 

Is telly the new radio?

 

In the 60's 70's I'm guessing the focus moved to TV as it was far more visually stimulating and entertaining?

 

No different from telly v the internet?

 

The more interactive the internet becomes (especially on the tv repeat front), the less we will give a shit about telly.

 

Give it 10 years and the dvd copies of the original episodes of corry will be the new antiques.

 

Professor Squidgy

 

Has a week off work and doesn't normally think this much

Thing is with the net, you can pick it up and put it down again as suits. With telly, OK Sky+ is good but its not quite the same.

 

I'm going to fuck off for a few minutes in a mo and get Titch out of the bath, I'll probably pop back on whilst she's having her milk and watching Dora, and Doris will have a mooch in between.

 

It looks like we're on all night, no, the laptop is on but my visits are short and frequent and done in between many other things like making tomorrows dinners, finishing a bit of work off, reading, cleaning kids shoes, fetching bins is, and wanking.

 

With telly, once you've sat in front of it, thats it until your interest in it is finished, which in my case is about 10 minutes becuase I'm sure I've got one of them 'just cant sit still and relax' issues.