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TV Viewing & Miscelanea
Jan. 11th, 2011 08:23 pmI have a TV receiver attached to my computer, and using EyeTV I record shows directly onto my hard drive. I've noticed a few interesting side-effects to this over the years I've had it, and I thought I'd ask if anybody else does the same.
I seem to prefer to watch many episodes of the same show in a row, rather than episodes of different shows. I only watch probably an average of half an hour to an hour a day of TV, so when I say "many in a row" I mean probably 3-4 episodes of a show over a week or so, they might be all on the first day then none until next week or they might be spread 1-2 every night or two. It varies depending on my energy levels and interest - if I'm having more trouble doing "out of bed" stuff then I generally watch more TV, but given the choice I'd prefer to do RL stuff most of the time.
Because I can easily record 50+ shows, and with the electronic program guide I can tell it nifty things like "please record anything with 'BBC' and 'documentary' in the description that isn't a repeat" as well as recording regular shows automatically and picking specific specials out of the online guide and recording those. So I have ... well, at the moment I have 43 recordings, of which 3 are movies. Of the 40 TV shows, they're divided between 20 different programs if I count everything; 12 of the 20 are single-episode documentaries (mostly BBC ones!).
This week I've been watching all the episodes I had (five) of "Big, Bigger, Biggest". It's a bit contrived in spots because they had a very definite format for the show and some of the development paths of the things they covered seemed shoehorned quite a bit to get into the correct format. But the program was interesting and I learned nifty things like how to prevent dams from suffering from toe scour, why space stations require astronauts who can do space walks, and how gyroscopes keep cruise liner passengers from being (too) seasick.
The biggest problem caused by large-scale inhalation of documentaries is that I keep ending up lost in Wikipedia, as described by xkcd. Such a terrible life I have!!
In other news, I have borrowed an unused exercise bike from my parents and plan to start riding it. Who wants to take bets about when I'll fall off? I've been using a tinsy pair of pedals sans bike but they were very cheap and consequently difficult to put any resistance on.
I also scored a now-unused pizza maker as they've "traded up" for a newer model - yay for relatives with rooms full of unused stuff!
That's all for now. I haven't been writing here mostly for the wonderful reason that I have been well enough to do stuff away from the computer and doing trumps writing about it any day! So at this point, no news is very good news.
Hugs,
Ricky
I seem to prefer to watch many episodes of the same show in a row, rather than episodes of different shows. I only watch probably an average of half an hour to an hour a day of TV, so when I say "many in a row" I mean probably 3-4 episodes of a show over a week or so, they might be all on the first day then none until next week or they might be spread 1-2 every night or two. It varies depending on my energy levels and interest - if I'm having more trouble doing "out of bed" stuff then I generally watch more TV, but given the choice I'd prefer to do RL stuff most of the time.
Because I can easily record 50+ shows, and with the electronic program guide I can tell it nifty things like "please record anything with 'BBC' and 'documentary' in the description that isn't a repeat" as well as recording regular shows automatically and picking specific specials out of the online guide and recording those. So I have ... well, at the moment I have 43 recordings, of which 3 are movies. Of the 40 TV shows, they're divided between 20 different programs if I count everything; 12 of the 20 are single-episode documentaries (mostly BBC ones!).
This week I've been watching all the episodes I had (five) of "Big, Bigger, Biggest". It's a bit contrived in spots because they had a very definite format for the show and some of the development paths of the things they covered seemed shoehorned quite a bit to get into the correct format. But the program was interesting and I learned nifty things like how to prevent dams from suffering from toe scour, why space stations require astronauts who can do space walks, and how gyroscopes keep cruise liner passengers from being (too) seasick.
The biggest problem caused by large-scale inhalation of documentaries is that I keep ending up lost in Wikipedia, as described by xkcd. Such a terrible life I have!!
In other news, I have borrowed an unused exercise bike from my parents and plan to start riding it. Who wants to take bets about when I'll fall off? I've been using a tinsy pair of pedals sans bike but they were very cheap and consequently difficult to put any resistance on.
I also scored a now-unused pizza maker as they've "traded up" for a newer model - yay for relatives with rooms full of unused stuff!
That's all for now. I haven't been writing here mostly for the wonderful reason that I have been well enough to do stuff away from the computer and doing trumps writing about it any day! So at this point, no news is very good news.
Hugs,
Ricky
