Watching a show on DVD vs. TV
POSTED BY: Dewrastler
UPDATED: Thursday, July 16, 2009 22:00
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hi yersina, i agree with you about going to movies, plus dvd of them have the extras. on topic ill have to say i like watching tv shows when they 1rst air if i can but mainly like to buy the dvds of shows that i love and missed the first time around. i work very odd hrs and miss alot of tv, so the dvds are more easy to catch up on my faves and they have extras and no commercials.
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I ignored LOST for the first three years, and then I found out that ABC was streaming all the episodes in HD, so I got myself fully caught up in three weeks (4-6 episodes a day!).
The whole time, I was saying to myself, "This is amazing, but I wouldn't have been able to follow this with gaps of a week or 6-9 months!"
I watched all 14 episodes of Firefly in two days!
I long for the day when I can just plug an entire series into my brain through a jack in the back of my head! 
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In principle - following episodes on TV is the best (especially with well-crafted cliffhangers).
Unfortunately, TV execs seem to be embarking on a campaign to make TV unwatchable by anybody with a brain cell.
Of course, here in the UK we're slightly spoiled by the ad-free BBC who (after a long drought) have even been turning out some decent genre shows like Doctor Who, Torchwood (esp. the latest run), Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes and Being Human.
Until a few years ago, probably because of competition from the ad-free BBC, the ads on commercial TV were bearable, too - ads and trails between shows and breaks every 20 minutes or so, filled with adverts from paying customers. Unfortunately, with the advent of lots of new digital channels (and no corresponding increase in big ad customers) its all gone pear shaped and they've learnt all the dumb US tricks: breaks every 10-15 minutes, including right after the titles or 2 minutes before the end, half filled with self-promo for the channel and the SAME FRACKING trailer for the SAME FRACKING SHOW at the start AND THE END of EVERY FRACKING AD BREAK.
Or worse, they decide its a "yoof" or "kids" show and you have to endure pop videos hosted by talent-free presenters during the breaks. Which is a pity, because some kids shows are worth watching (they completely killed the "Captain Scarlet" re-make - which could have had a huge big kid following - a few years ago by embedding it in a Saturday morning show, apparently designed to encourage kids to grow up as dribbling morons with two-second attention spans).
Don't get me started on on-screen "channel idents" or "coming next" pop-ups. The BBC childrens' channel has an animated ident bug for frack's sake! If it was a commercial channel I'd assume they were being sponsored by the makers of Ritilin, but its the BBC... Completely ruins my, er, critical deconstructive analysis of Shawn the Sheep!
So far, the worst that's spread to the two main "prestige" BBC channels is the dreaded "credit squeeze" at the end of the show, but the infection has already spread to the BBC 3 digital channel (on-screen idents, "coming next" popups, and news-free news bulletins during anything longer than an hour). Some market researcher obviously interviewed some WKD-addled chavs who think "Big Brother" is a documentary and decided that "meh. whatever." meant "I strongly approve of your idea".
Sorry. Nurse says its time for my tablets, and wants to take my crayon away.
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