Yes, Radio Times and TV Times used to only to BBC and ITV+C4 respectively but late in the 90's Radio Times started doing all the channels. And yes, the Xmas editions of both are published and if you walked into a supermarket over Xmas you should have seen them as they usually were put in stands right next to the main entrance. And yes, although today there are far too many channels I also go through the Xmas RT (I usually get the cheaper alternatives to RT but at Xmas I get the Xmas RT) looking for the stuff I want to record on the PVR, some of which I archive to dvd or encode to MP4 if it's a HD programme. I also archive from streaming services but that's a bit of a faff, the TV is so much easier to archive from.
Wallace and Gromit was the only program this Christmas I would turn the TV on for. If it wasn't for my good lady wife who watches the soaps I would not have a licence . Gone are the days when the BBC would do ground breaking documentaries. Likes of Horizon and other in depth programs is long over. Have a fantastic New Year and keep the channel going.
W&G, Christmas Lectures, all the Xmas specials we know and love. There was so much it was hard to find the time. The problem is that instead of having just 4/5 channels we have over 100 plus the streaming services too. You remember the old days because back then you had a life. There was no internet or social media constantly draining your time away, no binge watching on netflix. Instead you had TV, just a few channels and what you wanted to watch or record, you did. When you didn't, you switched off and lived, you visited people or cooked or read or gardening or a walk with the kids in the countryside somewhere. Today however you have no chance. Too much to choose from, too little time, nothing good on. We have gone from finding stuff to watch and planning tye day around that, to just sitting there complaining about money and time.
I haven't watched terrestrial TV in years - partly because the aerial has come adrift from it's moorings in the loft, and I can't be bothered to fix it, but mainly because nothing about the BBC, ITV, C4 etc., motivates me to do so. RUclips is the main channel - I also have Amazon Prime Video (though don't use it that often), and cancelled Netflix ages ago.
You talking about the Radio and Tv Times brought back memories from my childhood in the 70's, we would always scan through them, circling all the stuff we wanted to watch, which often led to arguments when two programs coincided with each other - no vcr's back then! We only had 3 channels back then, but there was nearly always something worth watching - now we have a hundred or more channels and it's hard to find anything worth watching. Now what's that old saying? Quality over quantity? Something like that. Happy New Year Allen!
Yep I used to pay for iptv that gets you everything. Apart from Discovery or NatGeo for Air Crash Investigation and some F1, I realised that I didnt watch anything else because it was just several hundred channels of garbage that I wasn't interested in
Hi Allen, I am an ex TV & Video technician and still have the first Radio Times and TV Times which list the complete guide to both networks they are dated 2 - 8 March 1991.
The barcodes were for Videoplus. I had a Panasonic VCR which came with a sort of pen scanner thing that you ran across the barcode and then pointed at the VCR to programme it. It was a clever system but wasn't around very long. VCR programming using onscreen programme guides superceded it.
I haven't watched any TV shows for a couple of years now, just use my TV for you tube and ps5. Still have to pay licence fee as wifey watches soaps and other 'rubbish' in another room. She's happy so it's fine. I'm almost 60 now and definitely turned into a grumpy old sod about 40 yrs ago. Tv Plus was the codes for recording, as I recall it was a bit hit and miss often chopping off the start or end of something, much better to set it yourself and allow 5 minutes either end for delays etc. Enjoy your videos even though I have no interest in repairing TV sets myself. I abhor anything Samsung and have vowed never to own another of their products, have been burnt by them too many times over the years. Happy new year.
The wife bought this years Christmas tv magazine,can't remember which one, but it was 5 quid, I hit the roof at the cost of it, she only bought it to see what our terestrial TV was putting on over Christmas and the new Year, and what a load of rubbish was on, not even one fairly new film, which could be used as a carrot to entice anyone to keep a TV license, we have not had one for years since I fineally managed to wean her off all of the soaps. (the only thing we kept a license for) there is plenty of decent material out there for free on the internet to keep us occupied, even if the Government scrapped the TV license fee, it would take a massive change in our TV companys contents, to get us interested again.
Happy New Year. The numbers printed in the TV books were for Video Plus (VCR Plus in the USA). It was either integrated into the VHS timer system or in it's early days you could buy a separate Video Plus remote control that basically started the recording by sending the necessary infra-red commands to the video recorder when the programme was due to start. So it was independent of the built in timer but it did mean you had to leave the special remote control pointing at the VCR so the infra-red signals could be picked up. Video plus ended up being quite a good system once it was paired up with PDC (programme delivery control) in the late 90's early 2000's, as it could adjust the timer if the programme was running late. I remember something I was recording moving from BBC1 to BBC2 probably due to some major news or sporting event and the timer still worked correctly as the PDC system appeared not only to adjust the start and stop times but the channel number too. Not sure how it worked but it must have been linked to the teletext signal or something else in the vertical blanking part of the video signal as nothing was "online" back then as the internet was still dial-up. Something similar still exists today on Freeview, as both my Humax and Panasonic HDD recorders wait until a programme starts before going into record. The barcodes were probably for the Panasonic system as there were a number of their machines that could be programmed via a barcode reader and they came with a large plastic sheet with barcodes for setting the timer manually. On some models like the Panasonic NV-F77B the barcode reader was built into the bottom of the remote control but on older models such as the NV-FS200B the barcode reader was a separate remote control and looked like a fat pen with an LCD screen. Amstrad also made a VHS recorder with a barcode system for the timer but not sure if it was compatible with the Panasonic system, and I can only think of one model the Amstrad VCR6100 that used it.
I can't put up with Ads any more for stuff I already have, don't want, can't afford! Gave up my TV license 4 years ago as BBC wre putting out dire content & too many quiz shows. I long for the days of quality drama, good documentaries. ITVX for 1 or 2 months to catch up with a few good programmes seems like a good alternative as the free version has about 25 minutes of ads every hour.
Happy new year to you Allen! The fact that I would rather spend half an hour watching one of your fine videos (along with those of many other RUclipsrs) says everything you need to know about what has happened to mainstream TV. It has become fragmented and is trapped in a desperate race to the bottom for viewing figures. 50 years ago the reliability and sometimes (but not always) the performance of colour TVs were pretty woeful but there was good quality programming to watch on them. When the BBC had secure income and guaranteed viewing figures it could afford to take risks and produced quality output as a result. Now we have fantastic 4K flatscreen TVs with sometime precious little that is worth watching. Anyway keep up the good work and best wishes for 2025. Cheers Ian E
Early VCR timer programming was barcode scans from the mags Panasonic remote controls had the reader built in didn't really take off but the Video Plus did easy to use.Best wishes to you and your cat for 2025 You Tube for me!
Happy New Year Allen. I hope that you have a better year than it may look like I might have. Just found out that I have a clot on the lung. Oh well onwards and upwards mate. We bought a TV times and it cost us £5.25 and we haven’t even looked at it LOL Regards, Brian👍🏴👍🏴
Gavin & Stacey. Nooooooooo... Wallace & Gromit. Yeeeeeessss... And, yes, I always marked up my Radio Times [too posh for TV Times...] Happy New Year to all.
Second anniversary today of not chucking my money away on a TV licence. Thr feeling od freedom ftom financing this corrupt, diarrhoea - inducing mafia is exhilarating. Happy New Year, folks. 🎊
i'm on my third 'does not require a licence' certificate, I don't miss anything as not sitting front of the 'Idiots lantern' gives me more 'youtube time' ! I also binned my wifi as I can't use it whilst at work (tv license included) and rely on mobile 100%
@@ant2312 Two weeks of watching and listening to government 'Propaganda' made me decide to ditch the license but it took a year to do so as the online 'process' went in circles, it was "John chlli carnnie's chanel that helped me with the phone number to call, which was answered by a very polite man who sounded like his job was dealing with hundreds of people cancelling their licenses !
I am same as you I would only watch a couple of programs, I mainly watch RUclips. One program i watch was on tonight "Vera" thats pretty good. If the wife did not watch the soaps i would not bother with the licence. Christmas TV just seems to be full of repeats now. I am 76 so one time i would not need to pay, so the BBC is particarly annoying for that alone. Happy New Year to you keep up the great content, pity I am so far north up in Manchester I could have fixed your computer for you, I build my own. Ps my cat is called Misty too, note the spelling, she is getting a bit old now and just sleeps all the time.
Break the cycle of watching mainstream TV, RUclips offers far more content. Videos nowadays are great quality, there's content out there to suit everyone.
I used to sell the original Gemstar VideoPlus remote, for a few years, until Videoplus became integrated into the on screen menus of video recorders. the system was about for years and years. The only things I watch on TV now are classic movies usually shown at Christmas, The Italian Job, the Sea Wolves etc.. Best wishes for 2025 from a fellow TV engineer, 1992 to present!! (From G11s to bonded Hisenses')
The best thing about the BBC these days is the BBC Archive RUclips channel, which is an absolute cultural treasure trove. Beyond that the Beeb is no longer central to media consumption and it's struggling amidst successive years of budget cuts, scandals and culture wars. I really can't see the organisation surviving another decade in its current form.
My wife watches the TV in our house and that's about it ...I rarely watch it other than for the odd few that I enjoy such as Bangers and Cash, Shed & Buried etc and stuff along those lines that's it.... The days of big dramas and documentaries worth watching are long past .....even the big Christmas Day film is a thing of the past
Manifest is the show whos name you couldn't remember. It was cancelled after 3 seasons on NBC leaving fans gutted as there was no ending. Then Netflix stepped in to make a 4th and final season. Which is why you will only find that season on Netflix. There definitely isn't a season 6 although the creators of the show would have liked 6 seasons to tell their story.
Panasonic used a barcode system, the radio times would have a few pages of just those bar codes. The radio times no longer has a proper film guide and the tv times film guide lists very little :( The main events this christmas were the new walace & grommet and chanel 4's 2024 from space, although the BBC messed up the traditional christmas day schedule :( The BBC has never re shown an only fools and horses christmas special on christmas day :(
Happy New Year Allen and Misty. Re live TV, it's great not having to watch it, this is why i havn't bought a new TV for years. Mt trusty old Pioneer plasma is far superior with HD from Blu-Rays than todays 4K junk. Good luck with a new graphics card, get the best you can afford.
I've not purposely watched TV since 2010 and not had a licence since 2018. In the 1970s to 1990s the Yuletide editions of Radio Times etc, were full of programmes and films to record or watch. These days you could not pay me to watch what they broadcast. I could go into detail but I would receive a ton of flak in the comments, because most people are offended by the truth.
With regard to video plus, do you remember something called PDC ? It was in the late 90s, and it stood for programme delivery control. Working in conjunction with video plus,it was a signal which was transmitted on bbc2 and channel4, but not the rest. The idea was, if the programme ran late, it would shift the start time for the recording to follow. Problem was, the setting button was on by default,and if you did the recording on a non pdc channel, it would miss the recording completely, without turning the feature off. My Sony SLV E8 vhs from 1994 had this. I cancelled the licence in 2002. You tube all the way, even if I had to pay. Free view is total dross. I have a radio times from 1974, and it only carried bbc 1,2 and radios 123 and4. I looked at the listings on the Internet, they were abysmal. Itv1 almost had all the same programmes that you would get on a normal weekday. Love your channel, it on its own is better than all of freeview. Happy new year !!
Yeah I remember PDC, which was due to any sport that went into extra time and might affect the programme you wanted to record. So PDC helped to delay recording and start it on time etc. It was not perfect but better than nothing. I remember my Videoplus remote control for my AKAI, had a number pad rather than a barcode scanner. Once all the programmes had been entered into the remote, you sent the data to the recorder with a button press.
It wasn't just BBC2 and Channel 4. I have a feeling it started first on Channel 4 then BBC1 and 2. It must have existed on both BBC channels as I remember a programme moving from BBC1 to BBC2 and the timer still worked as the PDC system changed not only the start/stop times but the channel too. But I can only think of one time that happened. ITV was still very regionalised back then so I think it depended on whether your ITV region used PDC or not. I was working in London for 12 months around 1999/2000 and I think PDC worked with Carlton/LWT but not sure it worked with HTV West when I moved to Bristol.
@@EgoShredder I had an AKAI and remember if you manually started a recording and it detected a PDC signal it would flash "auto stop" on the clock display. I think that was to stop the recording automatically at the start of the next programme but you could press something on the remote to cancel the auto stop function.
@@jkmac625 yes, possibly it was bbc1 too. I know that here in West Midlands, it began with channel4. It wasn't on itv central, and later when ch5 started it never came on it either. It was a pain having to remember to cancel it when recording channels which didn't carry it, as the programme would never record at all. I lost so many recordings this way that I stopped using it, but I kept forgetting, so for me it was a pain in the neck. Recorder was a Sony slv e8.
You were right. Originally you had to buy both as Radio times was BBC 1 & 2 and TV Times was itv and channel 4. Then in early nineties they changed and both started listing all channels.
The idea that broadcast tv has deteriorated significantly to my mind is not such a phenomenon as is made out. People are just more selective. Being brought up in the 60s people would just watch anything as tv was a very cheap way to fill an evening, there still was real low budget tripe then such has houseparty sticks in my mind and lots of US imports. Perhaps what has changed is that it is more manufactured on a production line as the broadcasters have closed all in house production down and now buy in by to spec by the yard. Can I have this much gardening, this much house fixing up…perhaps more risk averse too. 20 years ago we would have just stayed on one channel for the whole evening and moaned but still put up with it.
I’m in the suburbs of Dallas Texas, and get 96 free channels over the air. Last year there were two programs I looked forward to each week . Now they’re both gone and I haven’t used the boob tube in months.
I think what would be a good idea now Alan as if when you testing TVs use the footage from your drone camera of beautiful Como for display rather than snooker stick it on DVD or USB stick
I gave up watching TV 15 years ago. The only time I see broadcast TV now is when I test the things down the shop (ITV gets the best reception where I am - I won't comment on the quality of the programmes). I now watch old episodes of Angels, Juliet Bravo, Z-Cars, Softly Softly etc. on RUclips. Much more to my taste than today's offerings. Xmas TV is dead for the same reason regular TV is dead. Everyone has their own screen now and more choice than 3/4 channels. No need for the 20 million viewer big budget specials now.
Funny you mention this, I ditched my licence in 2020, but I have made it a time-honoured tradition to buy a tv mag over Christmas (only a cheapie) stare at it's listings, maybe circle something in that I'll never watch (on my 👁 p 📺) I think it's a generational thing that will slowly die out within my generation. I ditched the licence after watching more and more YT content, plus aunties ever more increasing shift toward left wing ideals, plus their insistence of employing and paying wronguns didn't sit right with me, among other things.
The only thing on 'my' TV this christmas was a DVD of series 3 of "Some mothers do have 'em" ! (I too don't have a license) but while I was at my mum's, she watched something called "The Final Gavin and Stacey" but I went upstairs and had a little sleep, so I managed to avoid it ! So Sod the BBC (and all their woke nonsense) !
It's bloody typical isn't it. My dad just rang me for a chat and amongst other problems, his fairly recent TV has failed. From what he says, it looks like the backlight has gone. He says it makes sound, but no picture. I told him to shine a torch at the screen and see if there is an image and he says there is. Its a 32 inch Panasonic LCD Smart TV, so a fairly recent one and my guess its one of the rebadged TCLs or whatever. I also think he didn't get a proper guarantee as he didn't buy it from a retailer. I'll have a crack at fixing it when I get a chance to visit him, but in the meantime I think his best bet is to get a TV from John Lewis. Nothing on TV anyway as far as I'm concerned, but he's 86 and still watches actual broadcast TV. I've been watching X-Files on 4-online and I watched blurays of Back to The Future trilogy over XMas, classic.
I have no tv licence my tv is connected to my 13 year old sony vaio laptop and i use this to watch youtube and itvx player ,and all the other none live players ,i choose what i want to watch .I cancelled netflix as there was a lot of rubbish and old films, and some of the series i was watching they cancelled the show first season .
My wife and i watch Talking pictures they show a lot of 1930,40 ,50 films and later that you don't normally see on other channels a very refreshing change. sky is a waste of time so i cancelled my subscription. apart from that Christmas tv is rubbish. No more shows like the two ronnie's, only fools and horses etc and more repeats than i care to remember.
I gave up with terrestrial TV 26 yrs ago. When ITV lost its franchise base, the uniqueness went with the regional companies. The BBC has become a vacuous and pointless broadcaster. I'd rather wait to purchase Wallace and Gromit and Wolf Hall on DVD. The only two things on the BBC that actually make the corporation slightly watchable. I spent more time reading and watching films on my 4K player.
Even if you watch Now TV, you need a license if you watch anything that is being broadcast or anything that is being shown live. This includes Sky News. Check out "ChilliJonCarne" on RUclips. He covers everything you can and cannot watch if you don't have a TV License.
Everyone always moans about the christmas telly but when you ask them what a perfect tv schedule would be, they never answer. Wallace and gromit was brilliant and the RI christmas lectures are always good.
TV is all propaganda now. It’s crap. Gave up my license 5 years ago and after a weeks anxiety I realised I was much happier. Wouldn’t watch it now even if it were license free.
It was intended to be propaganda based from day one nearly 100 years ago. All the psychological mind control research and inventions started around that time. Then if you look at the names of people involved in this area, and the names of the big Hollywood guys / companies etc, it all starts to form a pattern.
@@snowysnowdon5584 Yes, just avoid watching any live broadcast or iPlayer programme and you will be fine. You do not even need to notify them of your status.
Global media is owned by a handful of corporations, and all of them have one shared common denominator. The names of the owners are of the same ethnic/religious group.
Clearly not a Wallace & Gromit fan (the only thing worth watching). Doctor Who is rapidly going downhill, so sad. Have I got news was just repeated clips. You have to buy a decent newspaper, if you want a good TV guide.
Don’t watch live TV record what programs you like then ff the daft stupid moronic adds Also get yourself a DVD recorder and you can have DVD transmission quality Recordings, also there are millions of DVDs for sale out there all advertising free, it’s interesting to see in the 70s 80s 90s the advertising were great to watch, compared with today they are completely unwatchable!
The system of programming your VCR via numerical codes printed in TV guides was called Video Plus.
Yes, Radio Times and TV Times used to only to BBC and ITV+C4 respectively but late in the 90's Radio Times started doing all the channels.
And yes, the Xmas editions of both are published and if you walked into a supermarket over Xmas you should have seen them as they usually were put in stands right next to the main entrance.
And yes, although today there are far too many channels I also go through the Xmas RT (I usually get the cheaper alternatives to RT but at Xmas I get the Xmas RT) looking for the stuff I want to record on the PVR, some of which I archive to dvd or encode to MP4 if it's a HD programme.
I also archive from streaming services but that's a bit of a faff, the TV is so much easier to archive from.
Wallace and Gromit was the only program this Christmas I would turn the TV on for. If it wasn't for my good lady wife who watches the soaps I would not have a licence . Gone are the days when the BBC would do ground breaking documentaries. Likes of Horizon and other in depth programs is long over. Have a fantastic New Year and keep the channel going.
W&G, Christmas Lectures, all the Xmas specials we know and love. There was so much it was hard to find the time. The problem is that instead of having just 4/5 channels we have over 100 plus the streaming services too. You remember the old days because back then you had a life. There was no internet or social media constantly draining your time away, no binge watching on netflix. Instead you had TV, just a few channels and what you wanted to watch or record, you did. When you didn't, you switched off and lived, you visited people or cooked or read or gardening or a walk with the kids in the countryside somewhere.
Today however you have no chance. Too much to choose from, too little time, nothing good on. We have gone from finding stuff to watch and planning tye day around that, to just sitting there complaining about money and time.
I haven't watched terrestrial TV in years - partly because the aerial has come adrift from it's moorings in the loft, and I can't be bothered to fix it, but mainly because nothing about the BBC, ITV, C4 etc., motivates me to do so. RUclips is the main channel - I also have Amazon Prime Video (though don't use it that often), and cancelled Netflix ages ago.
It was so long I haven't been watching any TV that I don't remember how long it is but over 10 years probably 15-17 years.
Yeah I know a few who just binge watch old star trek over and over on netflix too.
You talking about the Radio and Tv Times brought back memories from my childhood in the 70's, we would always scan through them, circling all the stuff we wanted to watch, which often led to arguments when two programs coincided with each other - no vcr's back then! We only had 3 channels back then, but there was nearly always something worth watching - now we have a hundred or more channels and it's hard to find anything worth watching. Now what's that old saying? Quality over quantity? Something like that. Happy New Year Allen!
Yep I used to pay for iptv that gets you everything.
Apart from Discovery or NatGeo for Air Crash Investigation and some F1, I realised that I didnt watch anything else because it was just several hundred channels of garbage that I wasn't interested in
Hi Allen, I am an ex TV & Video technician and still have the first Radio Times and TV Times which list the complete guide to both networks they are dated 2 - 8 March 1991.
@@johnduckworth2875 Have you seen how much they fetch on eBay. ?
@@allenfleckney5969 Can't say I ever gave it a thought.
Yes to the previous comment, Video plus. Happy New Year Allen and all your viewers 👍
Video plus is what youre thinking off,Allen😊
The barcodes were for Videoplus. I had a Panasonic VCR which came with a sort of pen scanner thing that you ran across the barcode and then pointed at the VCR to programme it. It was a clever system but wasn't around very long. VCR programming using onscreen programme guides superceded it.
I haven't watched any TV shows for a couple of years now, just use my TV for you tube and ps5. Still have to pay licence fee as wifey watches soaps and other 'rubbish' in another room. She's happy so it's fine. I'm almost 60 now and definitely turned into a grumpy old sod about 40 yrs ago. Tv Plus was the codes for recording, as I recall it was a bit hit and miss often chopping off the start or end of something, much better to set it yourself and allow 5 minutes either end for delays etc. Enjoy your videos even though I have no interest in repairing TV sets myself. I abhor anything Samsung and have vowed never to own another of their products, have been burnt by them too many times over the years. Happy new year.
video plus it was called
The wife bought this years Christmas tv magazine,can't remember which one, but it was 5 quid, I hit the roof at the cost of it, she only bought it to see what our terestrial TV was putting on over Christmas and the new Year, and what a load of rubbish was on, not even one fairly new film, which could be used as a carrot to entice anyone to keep a TV license, we have not had one for years since I fineally managed to wean her off all of the soaps. (the only thing we kept a license for) there is plenty of decent material out there for free on the internet to keep us occupied, even if the Government scrapped the TV license fee, it would take a massive change in our TV companys contents, to get us interested again.
Happy New Year. The numbers printed in the TV books were for Video Plus (VCR Plus in the USA). It was either integrated into the VHS timer system or in it's early days you could buy a separate Video Plus remote control that basically started the recording by sending the necessary infra-red commands to the video recorder when the programme was due to start. So it was independent of the built in timer but it did mean you had to leave the special remote control pointing at the VCR so the infra-red signals could be picked up.
Video plus ended up being quite a good system once it was paired up with PDC (programme delivery control) in the late 90's early 2000's, as it could adjust the timer if the programme was running late. I remember something I was recording moving from BBC1 to BBC2 probably due to some major news or sporting event and the timer still worked correctly as the PDC system appeared not only to adjust the start and stop times but the channel number too. Not sure how it worked but it must have been linked to the teletext signal or something else in the vertical blanking part of the video signal as nothing was "online" back then as the internet was still dial-up. Something similar still exists today on Freeview, as both my Humax and Panasonic HDD recorders wait until a programme starts before going into record.
The barcodes were probably for the Panasonic system as there were a number of their machines that could be programmed via a barcode reader and they came with a large plastic sheet with barcodes for setting the timer manually. On some models like the Panasonic NV-F77B the barcode reader was built into the bottom of the remote control but on older models such as the NV-FS200B the barcode reader was a separate remote control and looked like a fat pen with an LCD screen. Amstrad also made a VHS recorder with a barcode system for the timer but not sure if it was compatible with the Panasonic system, and I can only think of one model the Amstrad VCR6100 that used it.
I can't put up with Ads any more for stuff I already have, don't want, can't afford! Gave up my TV license 4 years ago as BBC wre putting out dire content & too many quiz shows. I long for the days of quality drama, good documentaries. ITVX for 1 or 2 months to catch up with a few good programmes seems like a good alternative as the free version has about 25 minutes of ads every hour.
Happy new year to you Allen! The fact that I would rather spend half an hour watching one of your fine videos (along with those of many other RUclipsrs) says everything you need to know about what has happened to mainstream TV. It has become fragmented and is trapped in a desperate race to the bottom for viewing figures. 50 years ago the reliability and sometimes (but not always) the performance of colour TVs were pretty woeful but there was good quality programming to watch on them. When the BBC had secure income and guaranteed viewing figures it could afford to take risks and produced quality output as a result. Now we have fantastic 4K flatscreen TVs with sometime precious little that is worth watching. Anyway keep up the good work and best wishes for 2025. Cheers Ian E
Can't remember the last time I watched terrestrial TV, I can go months without even turning my TV's on
Early VCR timer programming was barcode scans from the mags Panasonic remote controls had the reader built in didn't really take off but the Video Plus did easy to use.Best wishes to you and your cat for 2025 You Tube for me!
Happy New Year Allen. I hope that you have a better year than it may look like I might have. Just found out that I have a clot on the lung. Oh well onwards and upwards mate.
We bought a TV times and it cost us £5.25 and we haven’t even looked at it LOL
Regards,
Brian👍🏴👍🏴
The darts is probably popular.
My suggestion for a GPU is RTX 3060 12GB in your price range.
As being a Canadian iam so fascinated with England. I hope to visit some day.
You are 20 years too late. Its a Islamic country now everywhere is a shithole
panasonic vcrs came with a barcode scanner on their remote - used to scan it and it would set the timer
Gavin & Stacey. Nooooooooo...
Wallace & Gromit. Yeeeeeessss...
And, yes, I always marked up my Radio Times [too posh for TV Times...]
Happy New Year to all.
Second anniversary today of not chucking my money away on a TV licence. Thr feeling od freedom ftom financing this corrupt, diarrhoea - inducing mafia is exhilarating.
Happy New Year, folks. 🎊
i'm on my third 'does not require a licence' certificate, I don't miss anything as not sitting front of the 'Idiots lantern' gives me more 'youtube time' !
I also binned my wifi as I can't use it whilst at work (tv license included) and rely on mobile 100%
June 2020 I ditched mine
@@ant2312 Two weeks of watching and listening to government 'Propaganda' made me decide to ditch the license but it took a year to do so as the online 'process' went in circles, it was "John chlli carnnie's chanel that helped me with the phone number to call, which was answered by a very polite man who sounded like his job was dealing with hundreds of people cancelling their licenses !
@@ant2312
Same time as me.
I am same as you I would only watch a couple of programs, I mainly watch RUclips. One program i watch was on tonight "Vera" thats pretty good. If the wife did not watch the soaps i would not bother with the licence. Christmas TV just seems to be full of repeats now. I am 76 so one time i would not need to pay, so the BBC is particarly annoying for that alone. Happy New Year to you keep up the great content, pity I am so far north up in Manchester I could have fixed your computer for you, I build my own.
Ps my cat is called Misty too, note the spelling, she is getting a bit old now and just sleeps all the time.
Break the cycle of watching mainstream TV, RUclips offers far more content. Videos nowadays are great quality, there's content out there to suit everyone.
Not quite youtube bans so much stuff that wuite frankly is of no harm to anyone
@hahanah1463 It's why the Y in RUclips is now pronounced with a J, due to whom owns and controls what they allow on their platform.
@hahanah1463 Thats why Rumble will take over
I used to sell the original Gemstar VideoPlus remote, for a few years, until Videoplus became integrated into the on screen menus of video recorders. the system was about for years and years. The only things I watch on TV now are classic movies usually shown at Christmas, The Italian Job, the Sea Wolves etc.. Best wishes for 2025 from a fellow TV engineer, 1992 to present!! (From G11s to bonded Hisenses')
I resorted to watching old VHS recordings my late dad made back in the 90s
Video plus remote codes.
The best thing about the BBC these days is the BBC Archive RUclips channel, which is an absolute cultural treasure trove.
Beyond that the Beeb is no longer central to media consumption and it's struggling amidst successive years of budget cuts, scandals and culture wars.
I really can't see the organisation surviving another decade in its current form.
too many nonces
My wife watches the TV in our house and that's about it ...I rarely watch it other than for the odd few that I enjoy such as Bangers and Cash, Shed & Buried etc and stuff along those lines that's it....
The days of big dramas and documentaries worth watching are long past .....even the big Christmas Day film is a thing of the past
Not needed a tv licence for over 20 years. No Netflix, Disney+ etc. Watch RUclips and films/series I have.
Manifest is the show whos name you couldn't remember. It was cancelled after 3 seasons on NBC leaving fans gutted as there was no ending. Then Netflix stepped in to make a 4th and final season. Which is why you will only find that season on Netflix. There definitely isn't a season 6 although the creators of the show would have liked 6 seasons to tell their story.
Happy new year to you Allan watching your videos from Australia 🇦🇺 God bless you
Back in the 80’s as a kid the tv times and radio times was the holly grail at Xmas
TV Times was for ITV & C4, Radio times was for BBC 1, 2 and BBC Radio, now they both list all channels
Wishing you a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year!
Panasonic used a barcode system, the radio times would have a few pages of just those bar codes.
The radio times no longer has a proper film guide and the tv times film guide lists very little :(
The main events this christmas were the new walace & grommet and chanel 4's 2024 from space, although the BBC messed up the traditional christmas day schedule :(
The BBC has never re shown an only fools and horses christmas special on christmas day :(
Happy New Year Allen and Misty.
Re live TV, it's great not having to watch it, this is why i havn't bought a new TV for years.
Mt trusty old Pioneer plasma is far superior with HD from Blu-Rays than todays 4K junk.
Good luck with a new graphics card, get the best you can afford.
I've not purposely watched TV since 2010 and not had a licence since 2018. In the 1970s to 1990s the Yuletide editions of Radio Times etc, were full of programmes and films to record or watch. These days you could not pay me to watch what they broadcast. I could go into detail but I would receive a ton of flak in the comments, because most people are offended by the truth.
With regard to video plus, do you remember something called PDC ?
It was in the late 90s, and it stood for programme delivery control.
Working in conjunction with video plus,it was a signal which was transmitted on bbc2 and channel4, but not the rest.
The idea was, if the programme ran late, it would shift the start time for the recording to follow.
Problem was, the setting button was on by default,and if you did the recording on a non pdc channel, it would miss the recording completely, without turning the feature off.
My Sony SLV E8 vhs from 1994 had this.
I cancelled the licence in 2002.
You tube all the way, even if I had to pay.
Free view is total dross.
I have a radio times from 1974, and it only carried bbc 1,2 and radios 123 and4.
I looked at the listings on the Internet, they were abysmal.
Itv1 almost had all the same programmes that you would get on a normal weekday.
Love your channel, it on its own is better than all of freeview.
Happy new year !!
Yeah I remember PDC, which was due to any sport that went into extra time and might affect the programme you wanted to record. So PDC helped to delay recording and start it on time etc. It was not perfect but better than nothing. I remember my Videoplus remote control for my AKAI, had a number pad rather than a barcode scanner. Once all the programmes had been entered into the remote, you sent the data to the recorder with a button press.
It wasn't just BBC2 and Channel 4. I have a feeling it started first on Channel 4 then BBC1 and 2. It must have existed on both BBC channels as I remember a programme moving from BBC1 to BBC2 and the timer still worked as the PDC system changed not only the start/stop times but the channel too. But I can only think of one time that happened. ITV was still very regionalised back then so I think it depended on whether your ITV region used PDC or not. I was working in London for 12 months around 1999/2000 and I think PDC worked with Carlton/LWT but not sure it worked with HTV West when I moved to Bristol.
@@EgoShredder I had an AKAI and remember if you manually started a recording and it detected a PDC signal it would flash "auto stop" on the clock display. I think that was to stop the recording automatically at the start of the next programme but you could press something on the remote to cancel the auto stop function.
@@jkmac625 yes, possibly it was bbc1 too.
I know that here in West Midlands, it began with channel4. It wasn't on itv central, and later when ch5 started it never came on it either.
It was a pain having to remember to cancel it when recording channels which didn't carry it, as the programme would never record at all. I lost so many recordings this way that I stopped using it, but I kept forgetting, so for me it was a pain in the neck.
Recorder was a Sony slv e8.
Happy new year Allen, nothing on to besides repeats something that was on fri, sat, sun, it’s rubbish to these days
The Two Ronnies. Absolute classic. I may go and search Sky to find some episodes.
Dvd's of stargate atlantis and the mentalist for me.
If honest your vids don't need to be 4k, perfectly clear enough in HD
You were right. Originally you had to buy both as Radio times was BBC 1 & 2 and TV Times was itv and channel 4. Then in early nineties they changed and both started listing all channels.
The idea that broadcast tv has deteriorated significantly to my mind is not such a phenomenon as is made out. People are just more selective. Being brought up in the 60s people would just watch anything as tv was a very cheap way to fill an evening, there still was real low budget tripe then such has houseparty sticks in my mind and lots of US imports. Perhaps what has changed is that it is more manufactured on a production line as the broadcasters have closed all in house production down and now buy in by to spec by the yard. Can I have this much gardening, this much house fixing up…perhaps more risk averse too. 20 years ago we would have just stayed on one channel for the whole evening and moaned but still put up with it.
I’m in the suburbs of Dallas Texas, and get 96 free channels over the air. Last year there were two programs I looked forward to each week . Now they’re both gone and I haven’t used the boob tube in months.
I think what would be a good idea now Alan as if when you testing TVs use the footage from your drone camera of beautiful Como for display rather than snooker stick it on DVD or USB stick
I gave up watching TV 15 years ago. The only time I see broadcast TV now is when I test the things down the shop (ITV gets the best reception where I am - I won't comment on the quality of the programmes). I now watch old episodes of Angels, Juliet Bravo, Z-Cars, Softly Softly etc. on RUclips. Much more to my taste than today's offerings.
Xmas TV is dead for the same reason regular TV is dead. Everyone has their own screen now and more choice than 3/4 channels. No need for the 20 million viewer big budget specials now.
TV is trash now. I only watch RUclips or my TV/movie collection via NAS streaming.
Can we have your thoughts on Panasonic tv’s
I watched Who and The Famous Five. My friends PC broke he replaced the card with a 3060 ti from currys. I have the 4070 super
Happy New Year!
Video plus
Happy New Year 🎊
Funny you mention this, I ditched my licence in 2020, but I have made it a time-honoured tradition to buy a tv mag over Christmas (only a cheapie) stare at it's listings, maybe circle something in that I'll never watch (on my 👁 p 📺) I think it's a generational thing that will slowly die out within my generation.
I ditched the licence after watching more and more YT content, plus aunties ever more increasing shift toward left wing ideals, plus their insistence of employing and paying wronguns didn't sit right with me, among other things.
Since years I only watch streaming (youtube, netflix, apple TV, paramout+ ...) satelite cabel disconnected and put away for good.
Videoplus!!!
The only thing on 'my' TV this christmas was a DVD of series 3 of "Some mothers do have 'em" !
(I too don't have a license) but while I was at my mum's, she watched something called "The Final Gavin and Stacey" but I went upstairs and had a little sleep, so I managed to avoid it !
So Sod the BBC (and all their woke nonsense) !
It's bloody typical isn't it. My dad just rang me for a chat and amongst other problems, his fairly recent TV has failed. From what he says, it looks like the backlight has gone. He says it makes sound, but no picture. I told him to shine a torch at the screen and see if there is an image and he says there is. Its a 32 inch Panasonic LCD Smart TV, so a fairly recent one and my guess its one of the rebadged TCLs or whatever. I also think he didn't get a proper guarantee as he didn't buy it from a retailer. I'll have a crack at fixing it when I get a chance to visit him, but in the meantime I think his best bet is to get a TV from John Lewis. Nothing on TV anyway as far as I'm concerned, but he's 86 and still watches actual broadcast TV. I've been watching X-Files on 4-online and I watched blurays of Back to The Future trilogy over XMas, classic.
@Allen, that PayPal address doesn’t appear to work for me. It finds somebody called Wells. Can you confirm that’s the correct person.
Stopped watching TV after the death of quality documentary and investigative journalism programmes were dropped, Horizon, QED, etc.
the series name you looking( 8:55 ) is "Manifest"
I have no tv licence my tv is connected to my 13 year old sony vaio laptop and i use this to watch youtube and itvx player ,and all the other none live players ,i choose what i want to watch .I cancelled netflix as there was a lot of rubbish and old films, and some of the series i was watching they cancelled the show first season .
Nope it's not just you. I've spent my time watching RUclips and Amazon Prime
My wife and i watch Talking pictures they show a lot of 1930,40 ,50 films and later that you don't normally see on other channels a very refreshing change. sky is a waste of time so i cancelled my subscription. apart from that Christmas tv is rubbish.
No more shows like the two ronnie's, only fools and horses etc and more repeats than i care to remember.
If you're at a loss, change some backlights
2:46
Videoplus was the recording numbers
I gave up with terrestrial TV 26 yrs ago. When ITV lost its franchise base, the uniqueness went with the regional companies. The BBC has become a vacuous and pointless broadcaster. I'd rather wait to purchase Wallace and Gromit and Wolf Hall on DVD. The only two things on the BBC that actually make the corporation slightly watchable. I spent more time reading and watching films on my 4K player.
Films and RUclips nothing on mainstream TV.
Even if you watch Now TV, you need a license if you watch anything that is being broadcast or anything that is being shown live. This includes Sky News. Check out "ChilliJonCarne" on RUclips. He covers everything you can and cannot watch if you don't have a TV License.
Video Plus it was
There is nothing ever on the poverty channels in UK or Ireland.
The only thing I enjoyed was Wallace and gromit.
I know it Manifest
Everyone always moans about the christmas telly but when you ask them what a perfect tv schedule would be, they never answer.
Wallace and gromit was brilliant and the RI christmas lectures are always good.
TV is all propaganda now. It’s crap. Gave up my license 5 years ago and after a weeks anxiety I realised I was much happier. Wouldn’t watch it now even if it were license free.
It was intended to be propaganda based from day one nearly 100 years ago. All the psychological mind control research and inventions started around that time. Then if you look at the names of people involved in this area, and the names of the big Hollywood guys / companies etc, it all starts to form a pattern.
I wasn't aware you could just give up the license without giving up every means of being able to receive live or streaming BBC.
@@snowysnowdon5584 Yes, just avoid watching any live broadcast or iPlayer programme and you will be fine. You do not even need to notify them of your status.
I think you will find most people are not bothered about tv any more it's sh.t
Global media is owned by a handful of corporations, and all of them have one shared common denominator. The names of the owners are of the same ethnic/religious group.
Clearly not a Wallace & Gromit fan (the only thing worth watching). Doctor Who is rapidly going downhill, so sad. Have I got news was just repeated clips. You have to buy a decent newspaper, if you want a good TV guide.
Anybody who watches stuff like Gavin and Stacey and Doctor Who has got to be soft in the head.
Don’t watch live TV record what programs you like then ff the daft stupid moronic adds Also get yourself a DVD recorder and you can have DVD transmission quality Recordings, also there are millions of DVDs for sale out there all advertising free, it’s interesting to see in the 70s 80s 90s the advertising were great to watch, compared with today they are completely unwatchable!
Don’t watch tv , not watched it in years , dancing with the fools etc doesn’t interest me in any way
It's all repeats
It's all rubbish
Happy New Year!
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