Just before Xmas the Fullchat household moved into the 21st century and had Sky TV installed. Freeview struggles round here at times.
Anyway I've found all these car restoration/building programmes such as The Garage and Wrecks to Riches. The American ones even manage to be interesting! They are more up my street having a mechanical bent to them.
The problem is that these programmes don't start until late and continue into the small hours. Mrs FC is getting annoyed at me waking her up getting into bed in the small hours and I need some sleep !!! (No connection between the two I hasten to add :-) ).
Recording is not an option. Is anyone else suffering the same addiction? Please help.
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Yes,
'Overhaulin' is the main one, although with Sky+ i've got them all queued up to watch when I want to. Mrs W just doesn't get it.
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Must be a man thing! Beats re re re re runs of Traffic Cops.
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I don't bother with the restoration ones but Virgin Plus is great for blokes. Just recorded the full series of 'The Nazis, a warning from history' by pressing one button. Mrs Ted can't understand me but I can't understand why she wants all the 'Poirots' and the like.
Like others, I have to wait for my own viewing slot...that is, when she goes to bed.
It's tough being a bloke !
Ted
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The Nazis, a warning from history
Originally a BBC programme shown on BBC2 ? An excellent programme and many could do with watching it. Memorable in many respects.
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Calm down FC. In a month or so you will realise the Discovery Channels with these programs are on a two month loop, you have the opportunity to see all those you missed first time round.
You will be grateful that you missed some earlier on ;>)
You will look forward to prominent reminders that a NEW series is starting - only to discover that it is only new because it is on a newly created channel.
Edited by martint123 on 13/01/2009 at 21:44
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>>Is anyone else suffering the same addiction?
Nope. Got rid of Sky and jetisonned PS3 in order to live life, read books and run. Disaster. Now I watch programmes I don't like and monitor ebay for 2nd hand PS3s. I'm fatter as well. So Sky makes you thinner.
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Brilliant !
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Surely the solution is to make Mrs FC sleep in the spare room.
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The wealth of advice here is breathtaking ! :-))
I'm going cold and clammy its getting near to that time!
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I am just addicted to motoring websites since I changed job to an office job with internet access....
Occasionally I do real work....
But I also have a Freeview recorder set up to record every Traffic Cops, Police Camera Action, Police Stop and Police Interceptors automatically.
Then when SWMBO is on nightshift I sit with the remote and fire my way through them. Its always a bonus when you realise that you have managed to record an episode that you haven't seen before!
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im addicted to late night shows too i found the perfect solution to not disturbing the wife when eventually going to bed.....A DIVORCE!!!! now i can watch what i like when i like :-)
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Can't afford that solution WL. But at least when she's gone to her vault I can get the whiskey out without any accusing looks.
Ted
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Was glad when Virgin got Sky One back - I started getting Road Wars again! However the module in TiVo that's supposed to prevent it recording episodes you've already seen seemed to have lost it's memory so it recorded dozens in December and Jan - many I had seen before, but there's been a new series which I hadn't. Good Stuff!
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Just before Xmas the Fullchat household moved into the 21st century and had Sky TV installed. Freeview struggles round here at times. The problem is that these programmes don't start until late and continue into the small hours. Mrs FC is getting annoyed at me waking her up getting into bed in the small hours and I need some sleep !!!
You''re luck you get the opportunity. My wife commandeers the remote to watch Todays Special Value on QVC which comes on at midnight.
Get Sky+ and watch when you send her out to do the saturday shop (and ask her to buy a steak for the black eye she'll give you for suggesting it!)
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I thought it was just me whose TV viewing window was between SWMBO going to bed, and being forced upstairs through tiredness one's self. We also have Sky+, and most of my stuff gets recorded and watch later on. Even Top Gear, which she used to be able to tolerate, but now refuses to watch.
Luckily, SWMBO is as addicted to Road Wars as me. We both sit and rant at the "given a 12 month ban and £200 fine for having no license and no insurance" cases with equal anger. She also likes Traffic Cops. What she will not tolerate is pretty much everything else. I was an American Chopper addict for the first couple of seasons (before the whole thing became a farce), and always tried to follow those "A xxx is Born" series that Mark Evans did.
Does anyone remember the BBC's Road Wars style series set in Manchester at the height of the joyriding epidemic in the 90's. It was called X-Cars and it was brilliant. Has anyone seen any sign of this getting repeated?
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I bought a freeview PVR. Best thing since sliced bread. The hard disk is now full up with "the sweeny"
PVRing is brill. One touch and whole series of progs are automatically lined up for you. Not missed any motor sport this year at all (even tho they tried to hide WRC and BTCC on ITV4)
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...and no need to watch ads any more. I almost exclusively only watch recorded stuff now.
Surprised you were so far behind the times AE ;-)
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Surprised you were so far behind the times AE ;-)
no - just suprisingly tight fisted
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Don't worry FC - I think allot of us have been there and it will pass.
As martin123 says they are on a repeating loop and once you have watched the repeats for about the 3rd time then you will start to question the value for money you are getting and think about cancelling. Sky will mess you around for about 3 months while you do this and in about 2 months later they will phone you up and ask you to take it free for a couple of months. Then the cycle starts again.
Personally I would never go near Sky again and I take great delight in knowing that I am not funding Christiano Ronaldo's next new Ferrari through my monthly Sky premiums.
It is down to Sky that footballers get paid what they do. Although - I am sure that they are eternally grateful to all Sky subscribers for paying for their lavish and wasteful lifestyle.
You may even end up like me with just the basic free view channels and watch repeats of TG on Dave all the time.
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I find myself in agreement with so much of that ^^^^^^^^^
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Once you get Sky plus you wonder how you managed without it. The Sky full subscription is robbery, but you get so much more value out of it when you can record 20 hours plus of stuff. Our box is on the blink so we have decided to upgrade to a Sky HD box because the call out is now £85!!!.
We also have Virgin tv too (gave us it for £1 a week when we got broadband) - if we move house we may scrap Sky as an economy measure as most of the channels I watch are on Virgin. Motoring related - how many people actually watch the Audi channel?
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There is an alternative of course to Sky+ and that is a HD recorder - it operates in exactly the same way with a built in freeview TV guide and you can combine with a DVD recorder as well. I agree with tintin that once you get this functionality you do wonder how you managed without it.
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You thinks that's bad, I've developed an interest in canals and narrow boats, not to mention climbing chimneys etc..
Amongst the dross there's some great stuff in there.
I also agree about subsidizing overpaid 'sportsmen'. But then I don't watch any football, celebrity and *non* reality shows.
Steve.
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My path in this respect has went something like this:
Telewest full package inc sports and films
Telewest small package with no sports and films
Then they changed to Virgin
Got rid of video and bought hard disk recordable Phillips DVD player
Took TV package back to a zero cost "freeview channels" only and paid subscription for Setanta.
Phillips DVD broke down, replaced under warranty.
Temporary House move
Phillips DVD broke down again, got money back, bought a Top-Up TV freeview hard disk recorder. Paid an extra £20 to get Setanta for a year.
It now records everything I want it to, it is two channel so can record two at a time.
So in the space of about a year or two I have went from the full package to a freeview only with £20 for Setanta. No premierships salaries being funded from my Setanta subsciption!
On a side note , I have said before, the best thing that could happen to the Premiership, would be for Sky to go bust!
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the call out is now £85!!!.
Not if you are prepared to cancel your subscription it's not. We were told the same thing when our plus box died a few months ago. Told it was £85 and no exceptions. We weren't prepared to accept this, and asked to be put through to cancellations. To cut a long story short an engineer came out and installed a brand new box FOC.
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I watched the Professionals on a Sky station last night. I really enjoyed it, plenty of Capris, Jags, a police Rover SD1 and all sorts of old cars.
One of the chaps is now a high court judge and the boss used to be a butler called Mr Rudson.
Wonderful stuff!
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I made my own PC PVR. I can currently record simultaneously all Freeview channels, one Sky subscription channel and two Freesat channels, including BBC and ITV HD
I can view and schedule recordings on both TV's independent of the above and also over the web.
Just checked and there are 570 recordings available to view (many a variety of four lettered pond fish though).
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"I can currently record simultaneously ..."
How many tuners does your device have then??? I thought my V+ was well equipped with 3 (and I have 4 of them), but I can only record 6 channels at a time because 1 channel is for watching only. And my TiVo can only record one at a time, but still spanks the competition (Sky & V+) for ease of use and upgradability etc.
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How many tuners does your device have then???
It is PC based and has 3 dual Freeview DVB-T boards. This is enough to tune into all 6 MUX's that are broadcast and the (free) software allows recording of multiple channels that are on the same mux (per tuner). Then there is an analogue tuner that receives and controls the Sky box. Lastly a dual DVB-S satellite tuner for Freesat.
Playback uses small media extenders at each TV and can view in-progress recordings, time shifted live TV, other recordings, etc etc.
motoring link. I see it found and recorded a couple more Traffic Cops shows in the last couple of days.
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