Incredibly Crap News
Dec. 16th, 2010 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxI just heard something bloody awful.
The Channel One digital channel has a limited lifespan. End of January ... say goodbye to it.
So say goodbye to Star Trek: Enterprise, Voyager, Deep Space Nine and TNG repeats. Say goodbye to any chance of seeing how the season 1 cliffhanger to Warehouse 13 gets resolved. Say goodbye to the V reboot. What does that Red Sky crap mean?
Also ... and this will hurt ... goodbye to Medium, Ghost Whisperer and Criminal Minds. No new episodes of any of those.
No new Leverage, either. I know fans of the show who live and breathe it. Craaaap.
FFS And I now have to kiss Rupert Murdoch's arse to sign up to his new channel instead, on Sky, if I want to continue to get any Star Trek stuff.
FTS. I'll eventually invest in a Blu Ray and get, or in some way, legally download, the episodes I need.
Meanwhile, apart from the Channel Five CSI stuff, what reason do I have to need my TV set in the flat? I can get repeats of Merlin and Doctor Who on iPlayer. I can watch them any time.
Serious suckage, peoples. Serious.
The Channel One digital channel has a limited lifespan. End of January ... say goodbye to it.
So say goodbye to Star Trek: Enterprise, Voyager, Deep Space Nine and TNG repeats. Say goodbye to any chance of seeing how the season 1 cliffhanger to Warehouse 13 gets resolved. Say goodbye to the V reboot. What does that Red Sky crap mean?
Also ... and this will hurt ... goodbye to Medium, Ghost Whisperer and Criminal Minds. No new episodes of any of those.
No new Leverage, either. I know fans of the show who live and breathe it. Craaaap.
FFS And I now have to kiss Rupert Murdoch's arse to sign up to his new channel instead, on Sky, if I want to continue to get any Star Trek stuff.
FTS. I'll eventually invest in a Blu Ray and get, or in some way, legally download, the episodes I need.
Meanwhile, apart from the Channel Five CSI stuff, what reason do I have to need my TV set in the flat? I can get repeats of Merlin and Doctor Who on iPlayer. I can watch them any time.
Serious suckage, peoples. Serious.
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Date: 2010-12-16 09:58 pm (UTC)The same question Ron Moore challenged the execs with during the writer's guild strikes. Internet and computer technology will soon change the way people buy (and use) their TV sets. Why pay for a cable/satellite feed which forces me to watch commercials when I can just buy specific shows that interest me through the net? (Or better yet, download them for free once they've aired).