I have 5 free to air channels only and that amounts to about 37.5 minutes of good viewing a week - (apart from news and sport)
When my video machine died, I got a DVD player only instead - who needs the 'record a tv show you missed' function?
Aussie TV works like this:
1)Wait till a show from overseas bombs
2)Buy it cheaply
3)Show it in primetime and hype the crap out of it
Also, advertisers are being increasingly more blatant in treating the public like absolute mindless morons - and the volume is now literally 1.5 times the TV shows volume! Watching anything on commercial stations would be near impossible with out a remote control! I love how they put cutesy little station ego trips promos on before every ad break starts - gives you time to hit 'mute'!
One of my favorite comments on TV is from The Lemmonheads' tongue in cheek "The Outdoor Type"
"I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend, what if something's on TV and it's never shown again?"
