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Post by philmoss on Sept 2, 2010 12:21:49 GMT
Is not about time the BBC got it's bleedin act together and launched the "free" Simple to view it you type in yer bleedin Licence Ref No (not available outside the UK unless ex pats (I'll even copyright that idea) BBC Archive Channel. BBC big wigs take heed YOU know it makes sense. They should make the tv license the size of a credit card like top up tv or sky etc. And that could go in your freeview/freesat box. Simple.... no license= no BBC problem solved
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Post by ian s on Sept 2, 2010 13:38:04 GMT
And Wtf is this "new" channel not on Virgin? 80% of yers are reading this post on Virgin broadband. According to their Facebook page,it will be on Virgin TV packages sometime next year....
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Post by Paul Watkins on Sept 2, 2010 17:58:21 GMT
I wouldn't count on this channel staying on air unless they improve it!!!
I've just 'speed' watched the first 24 hours on sky+ and what a waste of time that was. They only played about 10 performance videos and several of them were repeated 5-6 times.
What a cheek they have to advertise this channel as the channel 40 somethings have been waiting for. You'd be better off watching the radio. Paul Gambaccini and co, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Sept 3, 2010 6:45:31 GMT
After initial excitement on my part I must say that it is stinky plops.....
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Sept 3, 2010 6:46:18 GMT
...if nuts smell like s**t..:-)
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Post by Tim Disney on Sept 3, 2010 16:07:01 GMT
I fear the Abdominizer is already waiting in the wings to claim it's next victim! I didn't want to prejudge Nostalgia TV by the test transmissions, but this channel really is pants in my opinion. But then again, the great British viewing public are easily pleased and I can't see many people complaining that they're watching Pathe / ITN clips instead of seeing the original video. That's the domain of us musos and archive tv fans. Where are all these music shows we were promised? Or did the P.R get taken out of context on the forums and blown up into something the channel never said it was never going to be? I never read anything direct from Nostalgia TV H.Q, so wouldn't know.
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Post by Tim Disney on Sept 3, 2010 21:06:30 GMT
Thanks for that Dave. I hadn't seen their website post-launch. It is a very odd and naive sounding letter. I can't imagine that the BBC would be making it difficult to licence TOTP for UK screenings as UK Gold didn't seem to have any problems. EinsFestival also seemed to get pretty easy access to the shows. I appreciate the latter example is export and would be a different licensing agreement. I'll bet it's all down to the price. I'd love to be proved wrong, but I would imagine this project will end up with tired old newsclips and 'original' programming that will be based on bringing us this wonderful line in vintage style shopping items. I don't mean to sound cynical. I really do wish them all the best and think the concept is very interesting, but whether that will translate to a healthy balance sheet remains to be seen. Good on them for giving it a try though.
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Sept 4, 2010 3:39:07 GMT
It seems to be a slightly different version of the recently defunct and also Rick Wakeman involved 'ROCKTV'. Anyone else feel this? I popped ahead on the schedule for the next few days and have seen that apart from the repeated pathe video's they have a half-hour 'Duran Duran' concert and a Q&A based 'Billy Joel - In his own words' show?? Not exactly ripping through the vaults are they but I will join everyone in wishing them the best.....let's hope eh.
T.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2010 10:43:19 GMT
Sadly I fear that Tim's vision of this channel will be the one that comes to pass. This just vindicates my decision a while ago to not have T.V. in my house at all any more!
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Post by Alan Turrell on Sept 4, 2010 11:18:11 GMT
I totally agree Laurence i could quite easily live without a tv these days if it wasn't for the wife i wouldn't bother everything i watch is mainly on dvd and pre 1980 okay some might see this as rather sad but i want to watch quality television the way it used to be rather than what we have now
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Post by Alan Turrell on Sept 4, 2010 11:23:11 GMT
I will also add that i would love to see a tv channel that was aimed classic archive programmes and i dont mean stuff from the 80s and 90s but i just can't see this happening so its back to the dvd and youtube for me.
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Post by markboulton on Sept 5, 2010 13:28:35 GMT
I must admit to reading the contents of this thread with some incredularity. I was first prompted to this channel's existence by my father-in-law who said he thought it was a clever mix of sources, and whilst I always tend to assume anything new that appears on Sky or Freesat will usually be a waste of time, I went round to watch some of it and did actually think there is some wit and some art to the choice of visuals selected to match the music. The connections are sometimes tenuous and sometimes not obvious, and sometimes there's no connection except to show a mixture of people, famous and otherwise, going about the sort of business they'd be going about in in that era.
So I don't think it's a waste of time or rubbish. It's a different genre. I didn't approach it expecting it to be "TOTP24/7", so I didn't have any preconceived ideas. I thought the editing was done really well and I found the mix of celebrity clips and home movies fascinating as a new content form in its own right.
I do tend to wonder if as has been stated above many people on this forum were expecting it to be something it never aimed to be.
It's more entertaining to have on in the background than BBC News (24) repeating itself every 7.5 minutes.
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Post by Tim Disney on Sept 8, 2010 22:21:58 GMT
With the announcement about BBC4 planning to show TOTP, it now makes the BBC's reluctance to licence their content to Nostalgia / Vintage TV all the more understandable. I thought it seemed odd.
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Post by Chris Barratt on Sept 9, 2010 17:06:06 GMT
Everytime I go to Channel 369 it always seems to be the Paul Gambacini "Video Collection" that is on
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