Complaints about Prime TV

[rainman]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10826600

"
coverage was about 20 minutes behind the live cross". 20 whole minutes, my god, how did they survive? I mean, they tweeted their displeasure, and all!

If "
the internet prefers to do things in real time" perhaps Mr Reece Paterson should watch the closing ceremony on the Internet then. No?

Is this a fucking pisstake, or do we really live among such a bunch of whiny over-entitled wankers?

[merv]

What tossers, like it matters! If they don't like it they should pay for their TV, and all because they wanted to wank on live on-line with all the other desperates.

By the way, seeing Pomgolia is on daylight saving at the moment could one argue it really was still 40 mins early?

[Woodman]

Oh fuck me!!

Twats want the same as us who pay for it for nothing. Bludgers the lot of them.

Anyway they could have ignored the tweets, you know turn the phone off or put it in another room, keep away from other media, similar to what I used to do when watching delayed coverage of rugger.

Moaning, whinging cocks.

[Grumph]

Yeah, we probably are a society of whiners....

My beef with Prime is that reception in my area for Prime is crap...the pictures have not been worth watching.
Internet is worse....

i remember watching in 1960 - beautiful clear picture, why can't we have that again ? FREE !!!

[steve_t]

FFS!! Free-to-air TV is free because people pay for advertising time. Someone's gotta pay the cost of providing the service. If it's not a paying subscriber, expect to see shitloads of ads. 20 minutes? OMG! They're so hard done by! :facepalm:

[pzkpfw]

What I don't get about those who complained about Sky having it, is that on any of the other channels, surely they'd only get one channel?

e.g. if One had it, you'd still only get to see 1 live event (at a time) anyway.

Sky being sky, they were able to chuck it at 6 or so channels, so the viewer could flick to whatever sport (or game or dance pretending to be sport) they wanted to see.

Boo hoo. FWP.

[Akzle]

Is this a fucking pisstake, or do we really live among such a bunch of whiny over-entitled wankers?

yes. you really live among such a bunch of whiny over-entitled wankers

[scumdog]

Is this a fucking pisstake, or do we really live among such a bunch of whiny over-entitled wankers?

You're talking about KB, right?

[mossy1200]

Im not happy with the value for money on the free service prime supplied.

[steve_t]

Im not happy with the value for money on the free service prime supplied.

Perhaps a refund will be available :innocent:

[mossy1200]

Perhaps a refund will be available :innocent:

Ill never get that 20 minutes back now unless I exercise instead of watch TV so idd like all of my money back.

If its good enough for IRD to send me a cheque for 4cents in the eighties then Prime should send me a cheque for nothing.

[Berries]

Twenty minute delay and burnt rings in your plasma TV? I'd ask for my money back.

Oh, hang on.

[Maha]

Sky is over rated and those who pay for it at whatever level could surely, never get thier moneys worth?
How often does a Sky subscriber actually spend in front on the box watching it?
The only sport that seems to ever be on it is Golf or league, both not worth the time.

Was a Sky subscriber in the 90's for a few months, maybe a year...never again.
TV is just not that important.
Paying for an internet connection?.. priceless.

[pzkpfw]

... a Sky subscriber ...

Family.

Four of us here. In total gets watched a lot.

(Of course, the kids don't pay their "share"...)


(Also, our location means Sky by sat was, until sat Freeview, the only way to get decent quality pictures of even the normal 1, 2 & 3.)

[rainman]

(Also, our location means Sky by sat was, until sat Freeview, the only way to get decent quality pictures of even the normal 1, 2 & 3.)

Us too. Although now the "free dish install for a discounted rate" year is over, I'm seriously thinking of killing it (at least until basketball season) and paying unlimited bandwidth on the Internet connection. Youtube gets more action than the telly does, by far - only reason we seem to have one if so we can plug the PS3 into something.

[pzkpfw]

... only reason we seem to have one if so we can plug the PS3 into something.

We've used the PS3 to watch TVNZ on demand a few times to catch up when the MySky didn't record something (clash etc).

So if you have a PS3 that may be another way to ditch Sky.

(Sound is good, frame rate does seems low. Then again that may be due to WiFi to main router instead of ethernet cable, so may not be other peoples' experience).

((The PS3 does a good job with Youtube too, for that matter. So the TV would still be useful.))