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Thread ID: 122516	2011-12-27 01:22:00	Stratos has gone. TV7 next.	tut (12033)	PC World Chat

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1250820	2011-12-28 03:48:00	Son-in-law has a big satelite dish in his back yard and can get about 200 channels and he mainly watches Discovery channel, wtf is wrong with people today, must have the latest and mostest, no wonder we are in the c r a p. Lurking. I blame our lack of poverty, wars, and disease. Education may have also helped lift us up out of the muck.	Metla (12)
1250821	2011-12-28 04:02:00	I've pretty much given up on TV. I won't miss stratos as I never watched it but it is depressing how little choice we get on TV. I'm a big Sci Fi fan, there is no legit way for me to enjoy that on TV. We get shows occasionally in some crap timeslot and poorly advertised several seasons behind. And usually they pick the single season cancelled shows. My TV has basically become a monitor for my media PC and my Blu-ray player. As soon as we get a service along the lines of netflix at a reasonable price in NZ (probably a few years off still :( ) I'm done with broadcast TV.	dugimodo (138)
1250822	2011-12-28 04:24:00	And usually they pick the single season cancelled shows. Yeah, what's up with that? I suppose they get them at discount prices.	Agent_24 (57)
1250823	2011-12-28 05:40:00	Yeah, what's up with that? I suppose they get them at discount prices. Better to get a one season show than none at all..	paulw (1826)
1250824	2011-12-28 06:08:00	Not in my view. I'd rather watch nothing and go do something else than watch something that once you get into it, turns out to be canceled.	Agent_24 (57)
1250825	2011-12-28 06:15:00	I blame our lack of poverty, wars, and disease. Education may have also helped lift us up out of the muck. Met, those first three events could be on the way. This new school system they are talking about may drop us back into it. Lurking.	Lurking (218)
1250826	2011-12-28 06:18:00	Met, those first three events could be on the way. This new school system they are talking about may drop us back into it. Lurking. Definitely, I wouldn't so much blame the education sector though, More the corporate sector and the governments that protect them. Either way life will get hard and people will have more important priorities then 200 channels they can't possibly watch.	Metla (12)
1250827	2011-12-28 21:13:00	I watched stratos a few times and liked their show "The Beat Goes On". It's a damn shame it's no longer around. This is depressing. They get rid of a decent channel, but are still happy to fund 2 crap maori channel's which broadcast a few hours a day and are for the minority's. And if that still isn't enough, they broadcast maori news on TV1. I'm happy i don't watch tv anymore, apart from Crime Investigation Network, which is very good.	goodiesguy (15316)
1250828	2011-12-28 21:30:00	I watched stratos a few times and liked their show "The Beat Goes On". It's a damn shame it's no longer around. "The Beat Goes On" is a great show and is still broadcast on Triangle, but only avilable in Auckland. Do you have a local community TV station in Dunedin? It may be broadcast there.	Roscoe (6288)
1250829	2011-12-28 21:57:00	Yeah, what's up with that? I suppose they get them at discount prices. Unless you are watching Prime, that doesn't apply to channels 1, 2, 3 or 4. Both TVNZ and TV3/4 have deals with the studios where they take everything that is produced (TVNZ have Warners & Disney, TV3/4 have Fox & CBS) - my understanding is they have to take all of the programmes warts and all, they can't pick and choose. Notice how there are no Fox programmes on TVNZ and no Disney/Warner programmes on TV3 & 4. My guess is that if you aren't seeing your preferred genre, that is because it isn't being made in the US. And if it is canned after 1 season, I believe that's because the ratings bombed in the US. I believe they are pretty ruthless with that sort of stuff in the US. I'm not sure if the BBC are doing any new sci-fi but if they are it isn't being picked up by the local networks. If sci-fi is not a popular genre overseas, what is the probability it will be any different here? Unless it has a general appeal, my guess is you won't see it on any of the commercial channels, hence the reason these types of shows are played in late night slots. Unless you are the BBC or Maori TV the goal of a TV network is to make money, so shows that don't rate won't get put into prime time. (I'm not having a go at Maori TV, I believe their goal is to primarily provide a public service which I don't have any issues with).	andrew93 (249)
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