Do you still tape things off the tv?

[Jarnss]

Hi all,

I know this may seem like a silly thing to ask in 2023, but do you still tape things off the TV?

Also, if you don't mind, what do you have connected to your main TV?

I'm TV shopping.... Not as easy now as it used to be, unless ya a bloody tech mad.

4k? Uhd? Not a clue. When did 55" become the normal TV size?

I did see one with a remote that lit up and thought it was fantastic. However, it failed because it had no headphone jack. Apparently we need one, wireless be damned.

If you mean record to keep forever @Jarnss Nope not anymore. Used to a LOT in the second half of the 1980s, the 1990s and early 2000s... But haven't since 2008-ish... Most stuff is streaming, on youtube, or on DVD, or just repeated a lot, or on the iplayers/catch up TV. We have LOADS of stuff on DVD and a vast collection of all our favourite films and TV series(s.) But we don't record stuff to keep... Not now.

We (me and DH) do record stuff a few times a week and delete when watched though... EG Coronation Street on ITV1 (Monday Wednesday Friday.) We record it, then we start watching it 20 minutes or so in, and skim through the ad breaks. We do the same for many other shows too. EG, Britain's Got Talent, Dancing On Ice, and Love Island. We record and start watching 20-25 minutes in coz we get really stressed out with the long and frequent ad breaks. They feel like a waste of life. They never used to be like this. They're sooo long and frequent and annoying now.....

EG, Coronation Street is on from 8-9pm, (so 60 minutes,) and I reckon it's only 39-40 minutes of actual programme. So it's like, a THIRD ad breaks between - and inside the shows. I cannot stand it. Neither can DH!

I reckon Love Island (Also on for 60 minutes,) has only about only 36-37 minutes of actual show, and 23-24 minutes of ad break! Sometimes it's on for 70 or 75 minutes, and we have about 6 or 7 ad breaks (so only 45-46 minutes of actual show... )

As well as the ad breaks being too long and too frequent, the adverts themselves really piss us off, and irritate us too. Like the bloody OMAZE HOUSE ad, and the ones for pissy pads, and ciallis, and period pads, and life insurance, and home insurance, and funeral plans, and cruises, etc etc etc... They are SO long and SO annoying. Life's too short to spend half your waking hours sitting through tedious ad breaks.

So we record stuff and start watching it 20 minutes or so in .... If what we are recording is quite long - one and a quarter hours or more - we start watching 30 minutes in.

OR myself AND DH record things and watch them the next day.. even if they're on BBC, if they're on quite late, or we're watching something else...

Yep, this!

I agree the ads on some channels are a bit much as times. The one about life insurance were the child hugs her mom for getting it, I find uncomfortable.

I also agree about not taping stuff to keep forever. We buy the dvds as so much is cut from the broadcast now.

However, we did tape 4 hours of Hey Arnold last year that we have kept. It's in rotation along with the other stuff the DC put on over and over.

Tape how?