Cheap TV

With  a  spec  like  that  I  have  to  ask  does it improve the  rubbish  programmes  too    ??

 The picture can be enhanced by the user but alas, not the content!

So tonight we have, on Freeview;

Masterchef, Civilisations, The brain, the science of bubbles (Helen Cerzski), QI - the choice goes on: “Rubbish”? What sort of viewing isn't “rubbish” in your opinion?

Certainly very little on TV that I would have patience for and is why I don't generally watch it

Well EasyT, here’s an example of something that you haven’t the patience to learn, from last night’s television.

The surface of a bubble carries alien materials in its skin. Air bubbles with iron oxide and cancer treating drugs, can be injected into a vein upstream of an internal tumour. Their travel is easy to trace through the iron, which is then accumulated at the target with externally placed magnets. Having accumulated at their desired destination, the bubbles are broken down through ultrasound, depositing the drugs on site. The ultrasound also causes parts of the bubble to enter microscopic gaps, assisting in deep tissue penetration.

I’m rather glad to say that I had the patience to spend an hour being well educated in bubble physics. Masterchef was informative too.

We take our Avtex but only for DVDs. Some of the programmes now are appalling- they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel- in fact they are well into the wood! I was reading on the web that they- (whoever ‘they’ are) - were sending 4 married couples whose marriages were not ,at present, in a healthy state , to some God forsaken spot in an eastern country together with a therapist and a life coach no less so that these idiots could swop partners to try to improve their marriages!! Is it me??? Have I missed something??? Absolutely appalling !  I don’t care how cheap the tele is, it can’t be as cheap as that! 

Would only exacerbate any tensions, I would have thought. As Arthur Clough said " Adultery do not commit. Advantage rarely comes of it".

Does your TV have a channel changer?

I bought one of these a couple of years ago tested it on a site we use regularly and where I had previously had perfect TV reception with a small (mains only) set we brought from home. Frustratingly, it kept dropping the signal even though everything else (aerial etc) was as before.  Also tested it in a friend's caravan who was staying on the same site - with the same result.  No amount of fiddling about and re-tuning would solve the problem - so I took it back and bit the bullet and bought an Avtex which has performed faultlessly ever since.  Might have been a one-off but I have come to the conclusion that there may be a reason why the Avtex is so much more expensive.

I started out buying a 20" Goodmans  for the caravan, now replaced by a  18.5" Vision-Plus costing twice as much, There is just no comparison "you get what you pay for "