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Originally posted by wa2ise
And I thought that TV in Europe was supposed to be better than American TV. Do you still have to pay a TV tax there? Something about having to have a license just to receive TV, much less transmit it.
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Yep - £98 last year IIRC for a service covering digital TV - a service I can't get. You're supposed to be able to get a discount if in "poor reception areas" but I don't. I don't see why I should fund digital TV if I can't receive it. Grrrr. Sorry - whine over. Oh - at least registered blind people get a half price licence now - none of that patronising 50p off any more.
I'd not mind so much, but ITV/CH4 are getting EXACTLY like US TV - not so much the programming, as the frequency of the ads and the fact that even WITH the ads, every programme is sponsored by something.
I actually preferred US TV when I was there for a fortnight in 1992 (I was 16) - for one thing, you lot had McGiver (sp?) episodes waaaaaay in advance of the UK. But those damn TV ads...
Mind you, in the late 80s here in the UK, I actually generally preferred the adverts to the programmes on ITV! He he...
Why oh why do they insist on making the adverts about 100dB louder than the programmes though? I might well check out the phenomenon on the level meters on my video at some point to see just HOW much louder they are... I hate that!