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September 3, 2018
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The Official TV Thread

Just thought I'd start a thread where we can all share what we've all been watching.

I'm just finishing the fifth and final series of The Gentle Touch starring the lovely Jill Gascoigne as DI Maggie Forbes. It's a programme from the 80s and is excellent.

Next up for me is the second series of Monkey, known as Monkey Magic in the States I think. If you haven't seen it then you HAVE to check it out. It's a Japanese programme from the 80s that tells the legend of Monkey, Piggsy, Sandy and Tripitaka who travel through Asia to pick up the Buddhist Sacred Scrolls. Some may be familiar of the legend from the video game Enslaved: Odyssey Of The West.

I love rewatching stuff from the 70s and 80s regularly, they don't make telly like that any more which is a real shame. All we seem to see these days is mostly reality TV bollocks with the odd gem hidden here and there. :(

So what are you guys and girls watching?

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    kojack
    kojack
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    February 27, 2019
    Farscape would have been better if they just kicked Rigel out an airlock.
    Bringing Ben and Claudia to Stargate helped break that show out of the rut it had been in. Actually, just add Claudia to every show, she's awesome.

    Cool, Netflix emailed to say season 3 of Van Helsing is available. I liked that show. Kind of a more serious Buffy.
    I tried to watch Wynnona Earp but I couldn't get into it.
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    bigmike20vt
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    February 27, 2019

    Epona0000 said:


    Digikid1 said:


    Why not Babylon 5 season 5?  It’s quite great. 


    We felt it just petered out after the 4th season (to us).. the buildup and then subsequent wrapup of the shadow war, it didn't seem to have as much interest.. still, the remaining storylines had good episodes intermittently.



    The problem was they didnt think they were going to get a 5th series, so they wrapped it up as best they could in series 4, then on the 11th hr they got the series 5.... so some of the stuff which would have been expanded on in S5 had been rushed to be resolved in S4.   It is not a bad series imo but is noticably not as well put together as the rest.

    it is a shame the spin off "Crusade" never got more traction. I thought it had real potential.
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    Anonymous
    February 27, 2019
    Not too sure what's going on with my telly. I've connected it to my PC and it doesn't look too great. On a white background (like these forums for example) the black text has kind of a white outline around it. It looks terrible. Anyone got any ideas? I've tried it at 1080p, 1080i and 4K native but it looks the same. :(
    Anonymous
    February 27, 2019
    Problem solved, just had to adjust the brightness and contrast settings and it looks much better now. Still not quite right but I'll have a fiddle about once I have the patience. Am quite pleased with this telly, the only downside is that the plug lead isn't that long but it's no big deal.
    Anonymous
    February 27, 2019


    The thing is fucking HUUUUGE!!!

    That's a full size tower case to the right and two stacks of A4 printer paper under the right hand side of the stand.

    Yes, I have it sitting half on a crappy table and half on a crappy PC stand and I had to use stacks of A4 printer paper to level things of but it does the job :blush: :D

    I probably should have taken the picture whilst I was watching something in HD or UHD but I'm in the middle of watching an old tv Rip of a programme in the late 80s called The Paradise Club starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham so the quality of the resolution and video quality is piss poor.

    I love watching crime and cop shows from the 70s and 80s, the money from blags is ridiculous lol. An armoured car job full of takings in those days was worth a maximum of 100,000 smackeroonies and even half that could buy you a house in those days. These days that's a pittance lol
    bigmike20vt
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    February 27, 2019
    lol that has to be the worse TV setup I have ever seen in my life. i makes me feel much better about my wall mounted one being on the wonk a little bit. it makes mine look positively level. it is leaning so bad even the van is pitching to the left :p

    Enjoy your new telly :)

    PS i gotta ask.... why not put the ream of paper under the left side support as that is the one which needs it?
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    Anonymous
    February 27, 2019
    It's actually straight, just doesn't look like it in the photo lol

    That's why I had to use the printer paper, to level it all out.
    RuneSR2
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    February 27, 2019
    Snowdog, don't take it personally - obviously Big Mike is simply jealous of your amazing skills as a home decorator. Next time he goes on vacation, maybe some of his friends or family can help you get access to his home, so you can help him improve his standards - I'm sure it'll be a great surprise for Mike!  o:)
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    Anonymous
    February 27, 2019
    Have taken a spirit level to it now and the right hand side needs to come up by another mm or so but it's close enough lol

    Have now tried the Roku stick thingy. Just set up Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, the latter works fine but the former just displays a black screen with the Netflix logo on it. Fuck knows what's going on there.
    Anonymous
    February 27, 2019
    Have taken a spirit level to it now and the right hand side needs to come up by another mm or so but it's close enough lol

    Have now tried the Roku stick thingy. Just set up Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, the latter works fine but the former just displays a black screen with the Netflix logo on it. Fuck knows what's going on there.
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