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Originally Posted by Cablefan
4 things at the same time? How often does that happen (if ever?!?!) You'd have to be a very heavy tv user.
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Originally Posted by harmitage
I agree. Things are repeated so frequently that it would have to be a rare set of events that occurred to make it essential that you had to view all of them in a short space of time.
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Actually, for me this is a daily / nightly occurrence as most of my favourite programmes are concentrated into the same two hour period in the afternoon and evening. During the day I value +1s for comedy and documentary channels and at night it's a matter of channel hopping between Five USA, Hallmark/+1, Living/+1/+2 (soon to be HD). Worse still, my other half has decided she wants to watch Monkey Business on Animal Planet/+1 so this has to be factored into the mix. Luckily Hallmark repeat some of the prime-time programmes a couple of hours later or on Friday.
I don't have a V+ Box PVR yet and have given up taping on the VCR/DVD unless it's a keeper (movie or interesting documentary). At least that way I have to discipline myself a bit
and make some hard descisions
. I find if I record an episode of a programme, I'm unlikely to watch it same day and then it just sits around for too long.
Yes, many of the channels will eventually repeat a series but there are some episodes of CSI, Criminal Minds, Cold Case, The Mentalist, Without a Trace etc. that I repeatedly miss. I do have a life outside of my living room but it has been curtailed somewhat in recent years due to health problems, hence the heavy TV use.
The On Demand services are great but a bit random in what they show (e.g. partial series) and limited in the channels they cover. The Warner stuff is good and the content from other channels will increase.
Bear in mind that there are far more factors involved in launching a channel than just availability of bandwidth. I'm sure if VM had great content waiting in the wings they would drop some +1/+2 channels to accommodate it. For example, I imagine they would replace one Discovery+1 channel with another Discovery channel if it was available to them.
Next year with anaolgue gone and IPTV on the way, they'll be able to accommodate lots of new channels, HD and +1s so we'll have to find something else to moan about.
Where's my 3D TV?
When are we getting 'feel around sound'?
Why can't I control the ball in the footie with my Wii?
So I say
to +1s, +1.5s and +2s. (I think someone already made the plus fours joke.)