Pablo Bluth posted:All 199 episodes of Time Team. While not exactly comedy but still seriously watch this. The theme tune is cracking and Tony Robinson is a delightfully informative relaxed presenter who is passionate for it.
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The banter and chemistry that sometimes comes up between the Time Team presenters is what the Top Gear lads dream of having.
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A5H posted:Why does live football look pretty poo poo in HD? Is it because they can't beam it all about at a decent bitrate or something? It's really annoying. What channel? I watched a couple of episodes of Alphas on one of the digital Channel 5, er, channels, to see if it was any cop, but suffered from blocky bits. In that respect, it seemed at times like the same quality of a non-HD TV rip.
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Carpet posted:What channel? I watched a couple of episodes of Alphas on one of the digital Channel 5, er, channels, to see if it was any cop, but suffered from blocky bits. In that respect, it seemed at times like the same quality of a non-HD TV rip. ESPN HD & ITV HD. Every HD channel is pretty lovely usually except for the BBC one.
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Kraxis posted:Only ConnectChat: My god The Crossworders are absolutely insane at that game. 
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A5H posted:Why does live football look pretty poo poo in HD? Is it because they can't beam it all about at a decent bitrate or something? It's really annoying. The Tottenham FA cup highlights on ITV looked like something ripped off of youtube circa 2006, it was dreadful. I dont know how ITV sport constantly fucks up. BBC sport do a good job to be fair.
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Jan 10, 2012 20:46
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Anyone else watching the Great Sport Relief Bake Off? Usually I'm not a fan of these sort of celebrity versions of shows, but I think the show format is just too good to suck, no matter how it's used.
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Jan 10, 2012 21:24
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Pablo Bluth posted:Another 4oD recommendation: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Nonononono. Get this one on DVD. Watch it once straight, once with commentaries.
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Kerbtree posted:Nonononono. Get this one on DVD. Watch it once straight, once with commentaries. Yes, the DVD extras for Darkplace are comedy gold and should be listened too whilst watching the series a 2nd time.
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Brown Moses posted:Anyone else watching the Great Sport Relief Bake Off? Usually I'm not a fan of these sort of celebrity versions of shows, but I think the show format is just too good to suck, no matter how it's used. I'm watching because I'm incapable of not watching the GBBO in any variation, but it's definitely not as good with rank amateur celebrities. The regular version with the madly perfectionist bakers is much more fun to watch. Bless the blonde woman who wrecks her workstation every five minutes though; she's going to give Hollywood a nervous breakdown if she stays. And who's the smirking, smug youngest bloke with the voice that sounds like it hasn't quite broken yet? He's annoying. I hope he stays so I can hate him and his savoury meringues a bit more.
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LE0N posted:The Tottenham FA cup highlights on ITV looked like something ripped off of youtube circa 2006, it was dreadful. I dont know how ITV sport constantly fucks up. BBC sport do a good job to be fair. Football's nasty as the algorithms that try to predict how things are moving get confused by the majority of the image being pretty much the same shade of green. There muse be specialized encoders for it by now, surely?
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Brown Moses posted:Anyone else watching the Great Sport Relief Bake Off? Usually I'm not a fan of these sort of celebrity versions of shows, but I think the show format is just too good to suck, no matter how it's used. As someone who followed Masterchef and TGBBO last year, thanks for mentioning this. I think I've got my weekly program sorted for this season now 
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Jan 10, 2012 23:54
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Watching Coppers on 4oD. It broke for an advert break to show me an advert for.... Coppers.
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OnlyConnectChat: Please stop flirting with the dorks, Victoria, you suck at it.
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I don't think I will ever get tired of the faces Greg Wallace pulls in Masterchef. The man's just so expressive.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Watching Coppers on 4oD. It broke for an advert break to show me an advert for.... Coppers. Coppers is bloody brilliant
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Brainwrong posted:Coppers is bloody brilliant I prefer Coppers
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SeanBeansShako posted:While not exactly comedy but still seriously watch this. The theme tune is cracking and Tony Robinson is a delightfully informative relaxed presenter who is passionate for it. I've always watched Time Team, but recently my brother has been watching those tacky American shows on Discovery like Ice Road Truckers, American Pickers, American Chopper, Axe Men Swamp People SonsofGunsPawnStarsHardcorePawnStorageWarsOperationRepo and so forth, and I had to think to myself what an American Time Team would be like and I've just got this horrible image of heavy guitar riffs accompanying montages of digging and the equivalent of Tony Robinson and the Cornish guy having massive arguments and throwing ancient pottery at eachother. Szmitten fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Jan 11, 2012 |
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Bugger all to dig up in America anyway.
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"And here's another mass grave of Natives."
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Maybe they could search for the historical truth about the lost tribe of Israel and the Native Americans.
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I think they gave it a go, but it never took off.Rapey Joe Stalin posted:"And here's another mass grave of Natives." 
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:"And here's another mass grave of Natives." They dedicate an entire episode to finding Jimmy Hoffas remains. But seriously gently caress the sell out of the History channel to demographics. It is a niche subject anyways argh!
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Jan 11, 2012 19:45
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Interview with Alan Moore about to come on Channel 4 news (7.45pm)
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You can watch the Time Team America episodes on the pbs website. http://video.pbs.org/program/time-team-america/
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I'm watching The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and while it's very good so far, I can't get the image of Rory Kinnear sexing a pig out of my head. It's kind of tarnishing his lovely performance as the marvelous, morally upright Reverend Crisparkle.
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Trin Tragula posted:The banter and chemistry that sometimes comes up between the Time Team presenters is what the Top Gear lads dream of having. Speaking of Time Team, I've always has a soft spot for We Are History.
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More Netflix chat - It's weird that you have to sign up to see a full selection since the US site allows you to browse their catalogue even if your not a member. And on that note, everyone should really get themselves unblock-us and have access to the US site. Way more extensive (All the seasons of The Twilight Zone in HD? Yes please). Oddly they have more British TV to select from than we do (Want every episode of Midsommer Murders? Of course you do). There are some things we have that they don't. For example they don't have Californication or Dexter. As for the quality. I thought both sites were excellent. I watched the pilot episode of Lost in HD and it looked great. Even their SD stuff looks fine. Much much better than Lovefilm, who equate SD to a pixelated mess and who offer no HD content where available.
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DrVenkman posted:It's weird that you have to sign up to see a full selection since the US site allows you to browse their catalogue even if your not a member. And on that note, everyone should really get themselves unblock-us and have access to the US site. Way more extensive (All the seasons of The Twilight Zone in HD? Yes please). Oddly they have more British TV to select from than we do (Want every episode of Midsommer Murders? Of course you do). I wasn't sure what you were on about here so I looked into it. Turns out a Netflix account is universal, it's only your location that dictates what content you get. So if you have a netflix account and an American VPN, you can get all the US content stuff. Apparently.
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Before watching New Tricks tonight (yeah I know), I'd never heard anyone say the word "feminazi" out loud. Also, they threw in 2 "manginas".
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I have no idea what direction they are taking Todd Margaret, but holy gently caress how much worse can they make the Margaret character appear. The Young and Not legal joke is killing me.
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Stormageddon posted:I have no idea what direction they are taking Todd Margaret, but holy gently caress how much worse can they make the Margaret character appear. The Young and Not legal joke is killing me.
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Season 2, they cut the courtroom beginning for something else entirely...it's starting to seem like Todd is the start of WW3 or the end of the world or something.
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DrVenkman posted:More Netflix chat - I've had a look at this and tried it out, seems good so far, there's obviously a lot more stuff, but how legal is this though? Like, what are the chances Netflix are gonna find out I'm streaming US stuff?
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I don't really see the need for a pay-to-use service that unblocks foreign video content given the massive prevalence of those tv-stream link sites. They aren't even illegal to use to the best of my knowledge.
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The Royal Bodyguard is so bad I've had to watch all 3 really bad episodes on iplayer because I still can't fathom how such a bad programme could have been made without anyone stopping and saying 'hold on this is really bad'.
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Royality posted:The Royal Bodyguard is so bad I've had to watch all 3 really bad episodes on iplayer because I still can't fathom how such a bad programme could have been made without anyone stopping and saying 'hold on this is really bad'. David Jason is in it man. That is always a clue to me.
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:I've had a look at this and tried it out, seems good so far, there's obviously a lot more stuff, but how legal is this though? Like, what are the chances Netflix are gonna find out I'm streaming US stuff? Low to non-existent, would be my guess. Actually logging into Netflix via Unblock US, a splash screen informed me that using Netflix 'as I travel' would let me access different amounts of stuff. Well, gently caress off. £6 p/m for access to the content they have for US customers is quite reasonable, but having to pay an extra $5 p/m to access it is creeping into 'am I going to get my money's worth?'
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