Posted on 11/11/2017 6:48:37 AM PST by Jakarta ex-pat
there have been many great tv shows.
Let's look at the current state of affairs.
In no particular order.
Blue Bloods-just watch episode 6 of the recent season!
Gold Rush-yes reality tv, but at its best.
Game of Thrones-better than any movie I have ever seen.
Do you remember a number of years ago when Mother Government MANDATED that all TV stations/broadcasts must be in HD TV and everyone had to get a new ‘box’ or antenna for their TV sets?
Then it was digital that I meant. But now we also have HD TV. I have the TV antennas on each set to prove it, LOL!
I have 65” 4K smart tv. Having sprung for 4K, I am dismayed to find there is little to no 4k programming and when there is, I can’t tell the difference! Now I know how the people feel who bought 3D capable TVs to find there is no programming for it. Argh.
I still have a flip-phone cellphone, if that makes you feel any better! :)
Caveman that I am, I have no cell phone at all!
“Live PD” Didn’t realize the pervasive use of drugs in our country.
Can your 4K TV “upscale” standard HD broadcasts?
I don’t know. I have DirecTV programmed to only present HD channels on the program guide. Seeing 760p (or whatever the number is) upscaled to 1080p has never been satisfactory, though.
Upscaling would be via your TV software - somewhere in the menu.
When I play a DVD thru my Blu-Ray player, its “Upscaler” helps to improve the video quality.
It helps, but you can tell the difference.
With no TV and less time for new serioes, I have been watching Amazon’s “Man in the High Castle”. Except for one stinker episode in Season 2, it has been engaging. It is also much better than the book, which reads like a poor woven carpet due to the loose and unfinished threads. Much of the book has to to with Frank’s attempt to get into the fake American antiques business ... YAWN. (a minor subplot in the series version)
However, I think they better wrap it up in Season 3, only Dickens could tidy up all the stuff they’ve set in motion so far, and the producers/writers might be tempted to start more sub-plot lines.
Stream it on Netflix — totally commercial free.
I got fed up years ago with commercials and bought a TiVo. But fast forwarding through commercials is also a pain. No way they have the ability on some shows to press one button and skip the commercials. But you still get the huge and hugely annoying graphics overlaid on the show.
So I’ve given up watching a show as it is aired and simply wait until an episode or a whole season is available on Netflix or Amazon Prime. I figure they’ll bugger those up some day soon, but’s now they are all blissfully ad free and graphics free.
Thanks a lot, skippy.
I never heard of it until you had to tell us how terrible it is; complete with images.
And I can no longer say that.
Unfortunately, I can't "unsee it" either.
Some realities are best left unsaid.
With 40% of teenagers and adults now (suddenly ?) being either criminals or insane (or both) I choose not to discuss or even mention more novel ways to kill or otherwise victimize the rest of us...
skippy? Must have me confused with one of your friends.
Well, one out of three ain’t too bad...
Almost 40 per cent of white males are arrested by age 23.
The figure for blacks is 50 per cent. The FBI considers 30 per cent of all Americans have a criminal record.
Shocking. But having one myself, from the 1960s, I can’t ride a high horse. The drug laws, for one thing, were and are a major cause of young people becoming scofflaws. When they try marijuana and find out its dangers are vastly overstated, they think more serious drugs are over-hyped, too.
It took a Constitutional amendment to ban alcohol (which created more scofflaws than the country had ever had before), yet marijuana needed only the stroke of a pin. I’m not so sure history is progress when it’s cultural progress that is being discussed.
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