2 posts tagged “television”

We finally have reception.

I don't know if you can fully understand how utterly freaking fantastic that little thing is.

Our television is finally receiving clear pictures.

Once upon a time we got clear reception. That was way back in our Pay TV days. Back when it was analogue. Back when we could afford it. Then Foxtel changed its service to digital and hiked its price up. We decided to get ADSL internet instead and bought a set of rabbit ears for on top of the television (not only do our drains not work but the roof-top antenna has never worked either. We live under such third world conditions). Since then everything has been very fuzzy and vague. Which is fine if you're drinking, but not so fine under any other circumstances.

I bought a cheap digital set-top box online a few weeks ago, thinking that if nothing else we might be able to get clear digital TV. I wasn't going to get my hopes up because the digital set-top box would still be plugged into the rabbit-ears which may not have been up to the task. Hello pleasant surprise! Not only do we get the digital channels, the normal free-to-air channels are coming in as clear as a bell too! (Except Channel 31, which wouldn't bother me except a friend of ours is in one of the TV shows on that channel.)

Woo hoo! I'm off to watch telly now. If only there was something on worth watching....

What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why? 
Submitted by ducnly.vox.com.

None! Foxtel (the cable TV company here) has decided to force everyone onto their digital subscription by getting rid of their analogue service in the next month or two. However, for the same channels you pay about twice the price so we have decided that subscription television is a luxury we can do without. The only problem is that our flat has no aerial and we were getting our free-to-air TV through Foxtel as well - so when Foxtel goes all TV goes.

It will be an interesting experiment to see if it hurts or enhances our lifestyle. We rarely sit down to watch any particular show, it usually just ends up an attention sucker because we sit in front of the telly for lack of anything else to do and watch any crap they put in front of us. The only show I will really miss is Doctor Who, but with the amount we will save by not having to pay for Foxtel I can buy the DVDs twice over and still have money left over for alcohol!

...Besides, we've still got broadband so it's not like we're becoming Amish or anything.