Unpopular Opinions

Yes, I remember now, we agreed on a statue for him outside the gents urinal though

 

I thought you’d agreed on INSIDE the bogs…

 

I've been to a couple of his concerts, his music is good but not outstanding but what he does do extremely well is a live concert.

 

We can settle on something akin to this?

 

Loads of good stuff with subtitles... American and British content is mainly ***** now though, agree with that.

 

Recommendations welcome on the ‘Favourite TV’ thread.

 

Most Italian food is actually crap.

 

Wow.
Certainly the correct thread.

 

I’m not a huge fan of Tommy Smith, but I love Nordin Wooter

 

Inspired by haaland 50 goals in 48 games record seconds ago. Penalties should be separate in top scorer tables and records.

If player a has 15 goals and 10 penalties. But player b has 20 goals player b is a better goalscorer

 

Troy Deeney dislikes this

 

Unless Player A got those 15 goals in 15 shots and player McGugan B got 20 goals in 250 shots.

 

I recently ended practically all of my subscription services and haven't missed them for a second. Saving collectively a few hundred £ per month with almost zero downside, the only channel I tangibly miss is Sky Sports but is it really worth paying £50+ per month to have Crystal Palace vs Spurs on in the background on Sunday while you put up a shelf?

 

I’m half way to reaching this conclusion. I pay for everything and watch nothing.

 

A few hundred £ per month?? How many did you have?

 

19 Netflix accounts soon add up.

 

Yep that was also me until last year, I had virgin media and all the channels including sports + their broadband, had a discounted deal for 18 months but then then it went to £150 per month so canned it all off and just had Netflix etc. like you say the football id never actually watch properly, it would just be background noise and I haven’t missed it at all since. Then I’ve gradually reviewed the Netflix type stuff and reduced them down too. The vast majority of the stuff I end up watching is actually just the free stuff.

 

The best channels that we watch are just Dave, Comedy Central and UK Gold and the regular free to air channels. As you say most of the expensive channels are overpriced and we barely watch them. We are at £150/m which is crazy when you think about it - £1800 a year to watch TV/broadband. Main resistance to change comes from the excellent stuff we've saved on our sky drive over the last 7 years or so which is a pretty much impossible to save digitally other than play, record onto dvd, and then copy onto a pc which would take forever...

 

Sky getting desperate, trying to get me to come back for all the Sky Sports channels for £18 a month for 18 months. Declined.

Big 7 TV is going to come back and haunt them I think. Turns out there’s a huge amount of fans out there who support teams other than them or Leeds.

I’d imagine they’ll be sticking Redzone on ‘non-free’ Sky Sports soon as it does decent figures. That’s all I really watch on Sky now. Probably dump it all off when my contract runs out, I can watch that elsewhere.

 

I have one for each log in

 

I think the big squeeze on subscription services due to cozzie livs, has meant that the budgeting for future prestige telly has all been revised.

I think we have come out of a golden age, where Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney, Apple and a couple of others were all fighting tooth and nail for subscriptions at <£10 per month, which led to some astonishing production values in TV, even eclipsing movies.

I think those days are over for now, until the market corrects again and there are fewer providers/more subscribers.

 

I remember Quentin Tarrantion being asked about whether we were in a new golden age of TV and he replied it was the same old, same old as the quality stuff was just the same percentage but there's vastly more distribution outlets.

I hope your second point was aimed at the recent LotR TV 'effort'. I read somewhere that it funded by a unique model: Amazon offered an eye-watering sum of money to the production company without asking to see such trivialities as a script, plot outline, character summaries, casting hopes etc.

 

20% of the time is an ad
20% of the programming itself is an ad disguised as a documentary
20% of the programming is enjoyable mind-rotting TV like hells kitchen (that you can access on demand for free with my current smart TV on Roku)
20% of the movies on Sky Movies are variations of Superman goes to Disneyworld

I’M NOT PAYING

 

For me, the golden age was when there were barely any services around, and Netlflix's catalogue was enormous. One monthly sub, access to virtually everything on demand. Perfection.

Once Disney+, Apple etc. joined things were already in decline. They fractured the catalogue by climbing over each other to get a piece of the pie, and the consumer then had to buy 10x the number of services to get an arguably worse catalogue than they used to have with just a Netflix sub.

The content creators failed to learn the reason why people left cable/satellite in the first place: poor value for money. I wanted a sub to all of the content now, I'd be paying more than I would have done for a cable package. What's the point?

As a result, they now get nothing from me, and I'll obtain what I want from various navally themed "community" sites.

 

I too am a seeker of rivers.

 

Almost word for word what I was going to say. Long John silver and his Parrot saw a steady decline in "trade" over the last few years but I suspect people are fed up and returning to sailing on the high seas in their droves. My solution for now is to finish watching what we want on Sky (nowtv), cancel and move to Netflix etc and repeat, but I'm starting to consider other options again.

To compound the issue they "rationalise" prices by saying 4k is premium and more expensive than before. Go for the low quality stream with ads for less and only one device ever (you don't need to watch Netflix in a bedroom or on holiday do you?). They also feel that to justify the fees or their own existence, they need to churn out half a dozen exclusives each quarter, that are either half-cooked or unashamed sequels of a sequel of a sequel with the same plot as all the others, probably written by AI.

Also if you really wanted HQ image and sound. Blu Ray is the answer. I'm rarely massively impressed with the streams from Disney, nowtv, Amazon or Netflix. But unfortunately Blu ray is on a decline and found itself the niche market despite being the best format. I'm already pissed off that 3d blu ray has died and the streamers don't supply any 3d streams in the UK.

So quality has gone down in terms of content, quality has gone down in terms of picture quality and the price is going up. The phrase "pop will eat itself" sums it all up better than it ever did for music.

 

I know this is a thread for unpopular opinions but wow, that a doozy. 3D was a gimmick to sell TVs for about 5 minutes over a decade ago wasn't it? No one wants to sit watching something with silly glasses on for 2 hours once they've left school. Surely?

 

Nurses complaining about consultants pay rises. Apparently they're furious.

 

I misunderstood this and thought you meant the government, in a vote winning strategy, had decided to continue to hold fast on paying the Nurses, but had quickly reached an agreement to pay external management consultants higher fees,

 

I loved 3d. Still have a 3d projector that I watch on occasion and for a home cinema experience it imo isn't beaten. Just can't get any new films to watch on it. Despite the likes of Disney still recording most of, if not all marvel films in 3d - they don't release it on blu ray at all any more. 3d didn't go away because people didn't like it, it got screwed by everyone moving from discs to streaming.

 

Why are they ‘furious?’

 

What's the unpopular opinion?

 

That was the issue though - you needed special kit (a compatible TV or projector) to be able to watch it. Presumably if there was money in it they'd still be distributing the films?

 

Yeah the faff was the problem. I had full 3D set up at home and you’d get ready and then watch a football game in 3D. First 10 mins you’d think it was the greatest thing ever but then you’d get used to it and it became “normal” and next time could be bothered to set it up. I still think in a vacuum it was great though. Guess we could have implants or something?

 

I can't really disagree. I'm just annoyed that something which clearly makes cinema more immersive and captivating when done right is lost (avatar was a bang average film otherwise for example).

My main take is that just because the majority of people enjoy films on a small TV with sub standard image quality, poor lighting with a crappy TV audio, it's not the best way to watch a film. It's irritating that's what wins out and the experience is cost managed.

Special kit? A £400 projector is hardly unavailable to that many.

That's the other thing. Was football really the right format for it? I don't think so, but they saturated everything with it just because they could. Which rightly made people feel like it's not worth it.