TV is unsurprisingly bad
For the first time in years I’ve watched a bit of TV. I blame the earlier lack of Internet I unfortunately experienced.
It’s so bad, isn’t it?
Like today I am amazed how the BBC have flogged the “Have I got news for you” show. It was on yesterday Friday night and they repeated again today on Saturday night.
They must be really out of ideas if they have to repeat that old show (33rd series) on two prime time night slots.
No wonder things like Youtube are popular. Just the quality is a bit disappointing. How come things have to get worse before they get better?
Mobile TV I recall in Korea was big. Though high speed net worked on the tube and it doesn’t work at all in the London underground. Korea had some whacky channels, that even I found somewhat interesting. I actually didn’t mind watching a few snippets of a Starcraft game or some crazy Asian show I didn’t understand.
As for user generated content and what not. I would like to make better video. Though the video my Nokia E65 “generates” is worse than crap. And unfortunately I’m not a Mac fanboy and I have not shelled out a thousand pounds for final cut pro software. Free software video tools aren’t quite there yet… :/
I also found those OnDigital setup boxes in my ‘house share’ really terribly slow. What a horrible experience flicking through the zillions of crap channels.
I like something really different and/or quality and I am not getting either from TV in the UK.
May 20th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
I don’t think you can expect all TV to be good, and I’m not sure it’s any different now than it’s ever been, though maybe the BBC have to compete with even more cheap crap TV now, not sure why they bother, ratings, ratings, ratings. But surely there is some good TV out there, how was that investigation into scientology? Some of the BBC dramas must be good too, and there’s always some decent documentries…
May 20th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Have a look at “cinelerra” as video editing software. It works great for me and it is free software. You can render your videos on a renderingfarm using batch mode. Sounds very good to me.
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:05 am
I think that those Korean shows were interesting only because we couldn’t understand them at all! There are some good shows on tv, but very few of them are. Planet Earth is awesome. I think that BBC is one of the producers, so check it out. It took them years to make and the episodes are quite impressive.
May 23rd, 2007 at 4:37 am
Here’s information regarding how to get great video quality on the Nokia E65 (and all Eseries devices)
http://www.e-series.org/archives/342
Cheers,
Ed