Whats happening with this forum....

[Paul.]

Well how about sticking to completely finite and factual questions. No HDMI, no mentioning the 'A' word, no questions of interpretation or opinion, just how to. I.e. 'this is how you hook up A to B' or 'these are your consumer rights'.

 

[Ravey Gravey Davy]

Yes I did. My life would be so much easier if everybody just got on.

Welcome to management. If only there were no customers or employees,it would be easy to run any company.

 

[Andrew17321]

Going back to the original question, could it simply be that there isn't much to learn/argue about just now. There have not been any new paradigms in the way we listen to music for some time: streaming has become mainstream; 3D TV and high resolution music have turned out to be damp squibs. Nothing to get excited about; just gradual improvements in equipment and variations on the same themes.

Maybe we are all just happily listening to our music and watching TV on the equipment we have.

Andrew

 

[Lee H]

I drift in and out these days. Partly as I'm busier at work, but partly when the subjective/objective debate gets too much. There is a period every so often where posters are asked to prove any opinion - and equally, proof is derided as irrelevant - that every thread eventually descends to the same place. It's like a kind of Godwin's Law.

Equally, my knowledge is limited and of a narrow subject area, so I don't want to give anyone duff information.

 

[Andy Clough]

Thanks for all the feedback folks, welcome as always. Earlier this year we took a deliberate decision to focus on delivering more in-depth reviews online first, which now takes up an increasing amount of our time. So we appointed five external moderators to look after the Forums. I post when I can, and Clare is still heavily involved, as is John D.

But remember, we largely have to do this in our spare time, there are only so many hours in the day and the website is still free...

 

[daveg56]

Thanks Andy, and I understand the rationale. What would really help I think is simply improving the forum engine, which would make the user experience more enjoyable.

A couple of things that bugs me is the poor searching functionality on it and I would love to get a notification if a new post occurs on a thread that I have contributed to, without having to check on the site. I find the TechRadar Forum (and their whole site in general) is a good example of a well-designed forum, as well as news, reviews and provides RSS feeds.

 

[Andy Clough]

All good points, duly noted, and improvements we would love to add at some stage when time/budgets allow.

 

[nads]

I love the people who use CAPS lock as they have no idea how to put a question together.

I has got better over the last few weeks though.

 

[simonlewis]

What a depressing week nothing on the telly, & i've never seen these forums so quiet before, oh well bissell blockbuster on ideal world at 12:00 mid-day at least i have something to look forward to.

 

[chebby]

What a depressing week nothing on the telly, & i've never seen these forums so quiet before, oh well bissell blockbuster on ideal world at 12:00 mid-day at least i have something to look forward to.

Get a Humax*. Fill it up with all the good stuff that's on when you are out/at work/in bed/watching something on another channel etc. You can skip all the ads too. (If you watch stuff with ads.)

I have not watched anything that either my wife or I don't like (nor had to watch an advert) since we bought one.

*Other PVRs are available and i'm sure Sky/Virgin et al have boxes that do the same thing.

 

[Lee H]

Get a Humax*. Fill it up with all the good stuff that's on when you are out/at work/in bed/watching something on another channel etc.

Tried that. It soon filled up with desperate housewives, x-factor, apprentice etc

 

[visionary]

Tried that. It soon filled up with desperate housewives, x-factor, apprentice etc

It must be faulty, take it back for a refund

 

[John Duncan]

What a depressing week nothing on the telly, & i've never seen these forums so quiet before, oh well bissell blockbuster on ideal world at 12:00 mid-day at least i have something to look forward to.

Get a Humax*. Fill it up with all the good stuff that's on when you are out/at work/in bed/watching something on another channel etc. You can skip all the ads too. (If you watch stuff with ads.)

I have not watched anything that either my wife or I don't like (nor had to watch an advert) since we bought one.

*Other PVRs are available and i'm sure Sky/Virgin et al have boxes that do the same thing.

*I just got a Tivo from Virgin. Apart from the picture being a bit sh-t on SD it's great, though tbh for me its primary purpose is for pausing and rewinding, I don't think I've recorded anything yet. Haven't got enough time to watch what's on now...

 

[idc]

Between Sky + and BBC iPlayer, I cannot remember outwith the news the last time I watched somthing 'live' on the TV, or as Chebby said an advert.

I am surprised advertisers have not cottoned onto how simple it is to miss out adverts and made Sky do something about it. The adverts are a major source of revenue.

 

[Clare Newsome]

Advertisers know all about it; the canny ones, anyway.

It's why advertisers are doing more in-programme sponsorship/product placement, plus switching their traditional ad slots to 'event TV' programmes like sport, X-Factor etc that people are more likely to watch live.

 

[chebby]

I am surprised advertisers have not cottoned onto how simple it is to miss out adverts and made Sky do something about it. The adverts are a major source of revenue.

It's the same (in principle) as when we were all skipping ads with our VHS recordings. They couldn't do anything then and they can't do anything now.

Oh hang on, yes they can. Make far better quality/funnier/interesting ads that don't shout at you/insult you/patronise you/or give the impression that all ordinary woman ever do is sit in soft focus apartments in Tuscany admiring the smoothness of their own limbs (whilst eating desserts made from bacteria).

 

[daveh75]

I am surprised advertisers have not cottoned onto how simple it is to miss out adverts and made Sky do something about it. The adverts are a major source of revenue.

They have/are in the US. Echostar (Dish Network) are currently being sued by three of the largest TV networks for their ad-skipping PVRs.

 

[tvspecv]

Posting was easier before but now it takes longer so i dont bother but is fun

 

[Andrew Everard]

Posting was easier before but now it takes longer so i dont bother but is fun

There's no reason why it should take any longer than previously – what problems are you having?

 

[John Duncan]

give the impression that all ordinary woman ever do is sit in soft focus apartments in Tuscany admiring the smoothness of their own limbs (whilst eating desserts made from bacteria).

Can you let me know what advert this is so I can look out for it?

 

[chebby]

give the impression that all ordinary woman ever do is sit in soft focus apartments in Tuscany admiring the smoothness of their own limbs (whilst eating desserts made from bacteria).

Can you let me know what advert this is so I can look out for it?

No, it's all just an 8x blur nowadays. (Plus most of the ads are during my wife's viewing of 'Lewis' and 'Midsomer Slaughter'.)

 

[Diamond Joe]

give the impression that all ordinary woman ever do is sit in soft focus apartments in Tuscany admiring the smoothness of their own limbs (whilst eating desserts made from bacteria).

Can you let me know what advert this is so I can look out for it?

No, it's all just an 8x blur nowadays. (Plus most of the ads are during my wife's viewing of 'Lewis' and 'Midsomer Slaughter'.)

Don't you use the skip function rather than fast forward on your Fox T2?

 

[GSB]

In my head i'm composing a question about streaming music...i want to catalogue my cd's,and if poss blu-ray films.

I dont have a clue what i need,but when i do i'l ask for some advice......i think the forums are a wonderfull often entertaining read,even if i dont understand what the hell is going on,but i'm learning Long live WHFI i say :bounce:

 

[chebby]

give the impression that all ordinary woman ever do is sit in soft focus apartments in Tuscany admiring the smoothness of their own limbs (whilst eating desserts made from bacteria).

Can you let me know what advert this is so I can look out for it?

No, it's all just an 8x blur nowadays. (Plus most of the ads are during my wife's viewing of 'Lewis' and 'Midsomer Slaughter'.)

Don't you use the skip function rather than fast forward on your Fox T2?

To be honest I hadn't tried. Does it reliably skip to the right place every time? (my old Panasonic DMR-EX78 would often skip to wherever the hell it wanted rather than the end of the ads.)

 

[laserman16]

My Panasonic DMR-XS350 has a manual skip button which does one minute per press.

Four pushes of the button does the trick for 90 odd % of programmes.