Does anyone else miss the days with only a few channels and no on demand

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Does anyone else miss the days with only a few channels and no on demand?

I mean having 100s of chancels is great and on demand is even better but
sometime I miss how it was when I was a kid,

I miss the wait and the feeling looking forward to a program,

examples : O use to get up early so I could watch kids TV before school, I use to get home on time from school as for the same reason and get up at 7 on the weekend to watch TV, Now it 24/7, sometimes I use to wait all week to watch a new episode of show and try not to miss it because you would not know when it would repeat.

having 200+ is good but half of the time nothing is on.


I know if I had a choice I would stick with on demand but I'm assuming some of you will understand and miss that feeling.
 
You mean the days of three channels, BBC1, BBC2 and in my case Granada (ITV), Black and white goldfish bowl TV, Test card until around mid-day and programs finishing not long after midnight?

No

 
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Andy90 said:
You mean the days of three channels, BBC1, BBC2 and in my case Granada (ITV), Black and white goldfish bowl TV, Test card until around mid-day and programs finishing not long after midnight?

No

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No and yes. I mean the days we had full colour with 4-5 TV channels and 20-40 cable and satellite channels.

also the vid uploaded is from a time before I was born.
 
I begun uni in 1998 without a TV and I just got used to not having one, but I agree with the OP. Having 4 channels insteadd of 100+ made them more "special".

Having said that, I think that home video is much better these days as you can buy compact boxsets i.e. 18 DVDs/blurays occupy 9 spaces or less, and you can have subtitles without needing the separate caption reader that deaf people needed for VHS players.

So yeah, have always loved videos, but lost interest in TV when it became 100+ channels. I wouldn't know how to work the remote now, or which of the 8 different remotes to use lol :p
 
Not really.

Today I started with YouTube, then a bit of the news (Sky), then Amazon Prime and watched Risky Business and now Netflix watching Dare Devil.

So much choice, and I haven't even looked at any of the stuff on iPlayer, Sky on Demand boxsets or even regular TV channels on offer.

I don't miss the old days where the best thing on day time TV is Countdown.
 
The amount of quality TV content hasn't really increased at the same rate that the channels/mediums to get to that content have.

Content is spread thinly and prices are inflated IMHO.
 
No, tvs ruled back then, but you could watch rubbish or a few other channels of rubbish.

Now you t least have some choice and yet it's still hard finding an hour a day of decent tv.
 
I remember when there was nothing on TV all day until early afternoon when Pebble Mill at One was on, other than schools programmes or Open University. There was testcard all day on BBC2 until the evening or late afternoon and no Ch4. I don't miss it because I don't watch TV now. Anything I watch is what I want, when I want. I am happy with this and I don't miss waiting 2-3 minutes while the TV warmed up either, or banging it to reseat a valve to restore a wobbly picture on a goldfish bowl.

I never knew what colour Bagpuss was until I was in my thirties as we had a B+W TV in the 70's. I imagined he was light brown colour.
 
My memories are Watch With Mother around 1pm which featured Bill & Ben and The Woodentops etc and then TV went off until 5pm when kids programmes came on like Blue Peter & Jackanory (JACKANORY). It then stayed on until 11pm when we all went to bed.
 
Nope I actually wish they would pull the plug on traditional channels and go fully on demand. Use technology to its full potentual giving the user complete control over what they watch and when they watch it.
 
Better with more I think, vaguely remember getting up early on Sat morning to watch kids TV, whatever happened to that.

Sitting around with the family watching Noel Edmonds house party, C & L or the A-Team on a Sat night, good days. Better than Strickly or the X-Factor.

Life was simpler back then in many ways.
 
Not many on here will remember the days when if you wanted to watch something, you always had to watch it live. Saturday night in the pub "See you lads, going home to watch Match of The Day".
I was one of the very first people to have a video recorder and I remember a couple of workmates having a right go at me "Don't you watch enough TV?".
I explained that when they were watching Blackadder that evening at 20:30 that I would be somewhere else. I got the point over when more instances happened when they would have to stay in and I could go out.
 
In those days video recorders either always recorded the wrong channel, or the schedule didn't work and it didn't record anything at all.
 
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