In article <ut227q$2d7fs$1@dont-email.me>,
solar penguin <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
--
solar penguin
REcord is your option.
solar penguin wrote on 16/3/24 4:58 am:
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:I don't know about yours but MY T.V. has a Record function where, if I
I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
have a USB Drive plugged in, I can set the T.V. to record a particular
Time period from whatever channel the T.V. is tuned to AND the T.V. is
LEFT *ON* . (Sound turned down to enable sleep!)
At least that would give you the flexibility of WHEN you watch it!!
Hornplayer9599 wrote:
On 3/16/2024 08:56, Blueshirt wrote:
Plus, everyone in the world can access the BBC iPlayer with a
VPN.
Not exactly. If the BBC has figured out that a UK IP address
is actually owned by a VPN service they can block the
individual IP address.
It's possible the BBC try and block VPN access to its iPlayer
service where it can, although I wouldn't think they'd be
throwing too much money at it. Don't forget, they do also make
people answer a tricky question before they allow access to BBC
content! ;-)
As a test I just tried connecting to the iPlayer with a Nord VPN
UK address and it worked fine... although I get BBC1 here anyway
so it wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't work for me.
On 3/18/2024 10:52, Blueshirt wrote:
Hornplayer9599 wrote:
On 3/16/2024 14:32, Blueshirt wrote:
As a test I just tried connecting to the iPlayer with a Nord
VPN UK address and it worked fine... although I get BBC1
here anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't work
for me.
I use Express VPN, and they've been blocked...all four
possible UK choices. I would like to be able to
watch the BBC channels though...even if it is just out
of curiosity. I find it slightly amusing that I can use
the BBC Sounds app with no problems at all.
That's strange, as Express VPN specifically advertise that their
service works with the BBC iPlayer...
https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-service/bbc-iplayer-vpn
Maybe you should contact their support department.
No need, read what was online. Figured out what step I forgot to do.
Now new problem...have to have an account tied to a UK post code. Hard
to get one of those here.
So here’s the Disney influence in action. The new season premieres with a double episode at midnight at the start of Saturday 11th May on BBC iPlayer and will then air on BBC1 that evening and the same pattern will be
followed every week after that.
The episodes will drop on Disney+ at exactly the same time - so they will premiere from 7pm (EST) on FRIDAYS on Disney+ in the USA and equivalent
times worldwide.
So Disney get premieres at Friday prime time - to the extent that that matters to a streamer. And the BBC prime broadcast is 19 hours later. Proof positive that live TV ratings are no longer meaningful for this show - as most fans worldwide will have watched it already before it airs on BBC One.
Aggie will, of course, declare that ratings have fallen off a cliff
because the linear ratings are now going to be almost entirely casual
viewers only.
My wife is likely to be annoyed with me - staying up late to watch “bloody stupid Doctor Who”.
C’est la vie.
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
Daniel65 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
solar penguin wrote on 16/3/24 4:58 am:
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:I don't know about yours but MY T.V. has a Record function where, if I
I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
have a USB Drive plugged in, I can set the T.V. to record a particular
Time period from whatever channel the T.V. is tuned to AND the T.V. is
LEFT *ON* . (Sound turned down to enable sleep!)
At least that would give you the flexibility of WHEN you watch it!!
We will have it Daniel. It’s not being broadcast at midnight - it’s being released on the BBC iPlayer then, and will then be available to watch on demand for … well, a very long time. Almost every TV sold in Britain in the last ten years has iPlayer and a host of other apps built in, and for those few that don’t, a Roku or Amazon Fire stick plugged in does the job.
It will also be broadcast on BBC1 nineteen hours later, but that is
secondary now. It’s a streaming world. (I don’t even have an aerial or satellite dish feed into my main TV any more. It’s all streamed.)
Daniel65 wrote:
solar penguin wrote on 16/3/24 4:58 am:
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
I don't know about yours but MY T.V. has a Record function
where, if I have a USB Drive plugged in, I can set the T.V. to
record a particular Time period from whatever channel the T.V.
is tuned to AND the T.V. is LEFT ON . (Sound turned down to
enable sleep!)
At least that would give you the flexibility of WHEN you watch
it!!
Er... you have flexibility when you watch it... with
iPlayer/Disney+ you can watch those two episodes of Doctor Who
at anytime and as many times as you want from that date/time...
long before they air on BBC1 on the Saturday evening.
The Doctor wrote:
In article <xn0oje74q3qw47c004@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
Er... you have flexibility when you watch it... with
iPlayer/Disney+ you can watch those two episodes of Doctor
Who at anytime and as many times as you want from that
date/time... long before they air on BBC1 on the Saturday
evening.
Well I will take the non-disney option.
That's okay, that's your choice.
It's only a few months ago you - and your tag-team partner -
were trying to convince us of the decline of Disney... they've
declined so much they now set the time when we can all watch
Doctor Who episodes, regardless of whether we watch Disney+ or
not!
Welcome to 2024...
In article <utb4ts$laer$3@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
On 15/03/2024 17:58, solar penguin wrote:
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
Had to watch Reacher, Gen V, and The Wheel of Woke at either midnight or
1 am on Amazon on a Thursday or Friday so this will make no difference
and will give me a chance to write my review without missing the
Eurovision Song Contest.
A! Ha!!
In article <utb5gm$laer$5@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
On 16/03/2024 13:52, Blueshirt wrote:
Daniel65 wrote:
solar penguin wrote on 16/3/24 4:58 am:
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
I'm a night owl, Doctor Who at midnight will be great!
I’m definitely not a night owl. Unless I get unlucky and have
insomnia, I’ll just leave it until the next day.
I don't know about yours but MY T.V. has a Record function
where, if I have a USB Drive plugged in, I can set the T.V. to
record a particular Time period from whatever channel the T.V.
is tuned to AND the T.V. is LEFT ON . (Sound turned down to
enable sleep!)
At least that would give you the flexibility of WHEN you watch
it!!
Er... you have flexibility when you watch it... with
iPlayer/Disney+ you can watch those two episodes of Doctor Who
at anytime and as many times as you want from that date/time...
long before they air on BBC1 on the Saturday evening.
Except that on iPlayer the video quality is always crap and stuttery
compared to Amazon. It's not even 1080p. And why isn't Doctor Who
available in 4K?
RTD?
The True Doctor wrote:
On 15/03/2024 14:54, The Last Doctor wrote:
The episodes will drop on Disney+ at exactly the same time -
so they will premiere from 7pm (EST) on FRIDAYS on Disney+
in the USA and equivalent times worldwide.
So Disney get premieres at Friday prime time - to the extent
that that matters to a streamer. And the BBC prime broadcast
is 19 hours later. Proof positive that live TV ratings are
no longer meaningful for this show - as most fans worldwide
will have watched it already before it airs on BBC One.
Aggie will, of course, declare that ratings have fallen off
a cliff
They will have since the Eurovision Song Contest final is
immediately after it. Let's see which does better.
The Eurovision Song Contest won't have people who have already
watched it seventeen hours before on the BBC iPlayer though,
will it?
If the BBC really cared as much about traditional TV ratings as
you seem to think they do, they wouldn't be streaming two
episodes of one of their prime shows back-to-back on their
streaming platform at midnight!
The True Doctor wrote:
Star Trek: Picard had to wait until the following day as the
dropped it at 8am UK time, so the torrenters got to watch it
before people like me who paid for it.
If I'd have known how poor ST:Picard would be I'd have made it
wait too... S1 & S2 especially... S3 was quite good though.
The True Doctor wrote:
so this will make no difference and will give me a chance to
write my review without missing the Eurovision Song Contest.
Okay, here's Blueshirt's challenge to you for Season One...
Try and write a review without using the following words...
woke... garbage... sexual... grooming...
If you own a Thesaurus you should be fine!
The True Doctor wrote:
On 16/03/2024 14:59, Blueshirt wrote:
It's only a few months ago you - and your tag-team partner -
were trying to convince us of the decline of Disney...
they've declined so much they now set the time when we can
all watch Doctor Who episodes, regardless of whether we
watch Disney+ or not!
They got complaints when they were dropping woke Star Wars
garbage at midnight California time and no one was watching
it. Now all the complaints are going to the BBC for the same
reason. People will skip through it on iPlayer at midnight and
figure out it's woke crap so they won't bother to watch it the
following evening.
Well, I'm going to have a midnight Doctor Who watching party
with my son for Season One... if interested enough we/him/me
might watch the episode again when it's broadcast later on that
day.
We are looking forward to the double episode season launch in
May especially... new Doctor Who... in the night! It'll almost
be like when we did the Game of Thrones new episode thing at
2am. That was great fun. (Until the last season!) Trust me,
midnight Doctor Who watching parties are gonna become a 'thing'!
Whether it turns out to be "woke crap" is another issue
altogether...
The Doctor wrote:
In article <xn0oji73h35fmqa000@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
Well, I'm going to have a midnight Doctor Who watching party
with my son for Season One... if interested enough we/him/me
might watch the episode again when it's broadcast later on
that day.
We are looking forward to the double episode season launch in
May especially... new Doctor Who... in the night! It'll
almost be like when we did the Game of Thrones new episode
thing at 2am. That was great fun. (Until the last season!)
Trust me, midnight Doctor Who watching parties are gonna
become a 'thing'!
Whether it turns out to be "woke crap" is another issue
altogether...
As you like it.
Hopefully I do!
What about wife and daughter?
Please... we want to enjoy ourselves with midnight munchies...
and peace and quiet. Mrs Blueshirt can make the tea at midnight
and then go to bed!
The daughter that likes Ncuti Gatwa has her own house, and
laptop for watching TV shows, so she can arrange her own
midnight party! I suspect she'll wait until the Saturday evening
though as she loves the Eurovision Song Contest too.
The True Doctor wrote:
On 16/03/2024 13:52, Blueshirt wrote:
Er... you have flexibility when you watch it... with
iPlayer/Disney+ you can watch those two episodes of Doctor
Who at anytime and as many times as you want from that
date/time... long before they air on BBC1 on the Saturday
evening.
Except that on iPlayer the video quality is always crap and
stuttery compared to Amazon. It's not even 1080p. And why
isn't Doctor Who available in 4K?
I think you'll find the 2023 Doctor Who specials were in UHD on
the iPlayer... well, the BBC certainly announced they would be
anyway.
I don't know about Season One obviously.
The True Doctor wrote:
On 19/03/2024 09:58, Blueshirt wrote:
If I'd have known how poor ST:Picard would be I'd have made
it wait too... S1 & S2 especially... S3 was quite good
though.
S3 was reasonable Star Trek but S1 and S2 were badly written
woke shit that destroyed every character.
I'll agree with the badly written bit.
S1 & S2 were dull enough. However, I wouldn't have said that it
was woke shit, just badly written drama! Fortunately, S3 got the
show back on track.
The True Doctor wrote:
On 19/03/2024 09:11, Blueshirt wrote:
The True Doctor wrote:
On 15/03/2024 14:54, The Last Doctor wrote:
So Disney get premieres at Friday prime time - to the
extent that that matters to a streamer. And the BBC
prime broadcast is 19 hours later. Proof positive that
live TV ratings are no longer meaningful for this show -
as most fans worldwide will have watched it already
before it airs on BBC One. Aggie will, of course,
declare that ratings have fallen off a cliff
They will have since the Eurovision Song Contest final is
immediately after it. Let's see which does better.
The Eurovision Song Contest won't have people who have
already watched it seventeen hours before on the BBC iPlayer
though, will it?
Yes it will because I will be watching it.
Try again!
If the BBC really cared as much about traditional TV ratings
as you seem to think they do, they wouldn't be streaming two
episodes of one of their prime shows back-to-back on their
streaming platform at midnight!
If they didn't stream it then people would torrent it
immediately after it aired on Disney+ and get much better
picture quality and double the resolution than the crap that's
on iPlayer too.
Another reason why traditional TV ratings don't mean a thing!
But you'll still use them to suit your agenda of course...
The problem with what the BBC are doing is that people will
review it and tell others that it's woke gay shit and no one
else will want to watch it because of the truth. Doctor Who
ended in 2017. This woke gay shit is only the to sexually
groom children. At least their parents can now make sure they
don't watch it, just like everything else that originates from
Disney these days.
Try and expand your vocabulary... this "woke gay shit" and
"sexually groom children" stuff is getting a bit boring now...
The True Doctor wrote:
On 19/03/2024 18:21, Blueshirt wrote:
The True Doctor wrote:
S3 was reasonable Star Trek but S1 and S2 were badly
written woke shit that destroyed every character.
I'll agree with the badly written bit.
S1 & S2 were dull enough. However, I wouldn't have said that
it was woke shit, just badly written drama! Fortunately, S3
got the show back on track.
S1 was about asylum seekers and persecuting sentient robots
(despite the imbecilic morons who wrote it still allowing AI
holograms and holographic doctors which are exactly the same
thing) and S2 was about illegal immigration, mental illness,
and attacking Donald Trump.
You do have a unique view of the world I'll give you that!
The True Doctor wrote:
On 21/03/2024 10:29, Blueshirt wrote:
The True Doctor wrote:
On 19/03/2024 18:21, Blueshirt wrote:
S1 & S2 were dull enough. However, I wouldn't have said
that it was woke shit, just badly written drama!
Fortunately, S3 got the show back on track.
S1 was about asylum seekers and persecuting sentient robots
(despite the imbecilic morons who wrote it still allowing
AI holograms and holographic doctors which are exactly the
same thing) and S2 was about illegal immigration, mental
illness, and attacking Donald Trump.
You do have a unique view of the world I'll give you that!
My view is the view of the majority and shared by renowned
Star Trek expert Robert Mayer Burnett. Watch him on YouTube.
Don't you have any real understanding of literature?
Nah, I have a funny feeling you are the only person with that
particular take on everything. If there is another person in the
world that sees sexual grooming in everything they watch on
television, and are so offended by it that they have to keep
watching it again and again, then they are obviously your
long-lost twin. A normal person would just switch it off!
I leave literature to the experts on it, like yourself
obviously. I'm just happy to live my life and worry about what
really matters, like what's for dinner?!
The True Doctor wrote:
On 19/03/2024 09:21, Blueshirt wrote:
The True Doctor wrote:
Except that on iPlayer the video quality is always crap and
stuttery compared to Amazon. It's not even 1080p. And why
isn't Doctor Who available in 4K?
I think you'll find the 2023 Doctor Who specials were in UHD
on the iPlayer... well, the BBC certainly announced they
would be anyway.
They were not in UHD for anyone wanting to watch them on a PC.
You don't even get normal Full HD on iPlayer.
What set up do you have if you are not getting UHD on the
iPlayer? (For the selected programmes that are filmed in UHD
obviously!) Can your PC monitor - and internet connection -
handle 4K streams?
I have checked and the 2023 Doctor Who specials were streamed in
UHD on the iPlayer. I assume you have also checked the iPlayer
video settings? (Cog in the playback bar.)
You are constantly reminding us that you pay for a UK TV
licence, so e-mail BBC iPlayer support if you think you should
be getting a better picture quality from your iPlayer streams.
In article <utiosf$2i4ur$2@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
On 21/03/2024 15:11, Blueshirt wrote:
The True Doctor wrote:
On 21/03/2024 10:29, Blueshirt wrote:
The True Doctor wrote:
On 19/03/2024 18:21, Blueshirt wrote:
S1 & S2 were dull enough. However, I wouldn't have said
that it was woke shit, just badly written drama!
Fortunately, S3 got the show back on track.
S1 was about asylum seekers and persecuting sentient robots
(despite the imbecilic morons who wrote it still allowing
AI holograms and holographic doctors which are exactly the
same thing) and S2 was about illegal immigration, mental
illness, and attacking Donald Trump.
You do have a unique view of the world I'll give you that!
My view is the view of the majority and shared by renowned
Star Trek expert Robert Mayer Burnett. Watch him on YouTube.
Don't you have any real understanding of literature?
Nah, I have a funny feeling you are the only person with that
particular take on everything. If there is another person in the
Then you are totally deluded. Watch YouTube. The majority of channels
say exactly that same thing that I am saying.
world that sees sexual grooming in everything they watch on
television, and are so offended by it that they have to keep
watching it again and again, then they are obviously your
long-lost twin. A normal person would just switch it off!
An normal person would do everything they possibly can to stop woke
perverts hijacking shows and using them to sexually groom children.
I leave literature to the experts on it, like yourself
obviously. I'm just happy to live my life and worry about what
really matters, like what's for dinner?!
Why you let the deviants pray on your children obviously.
BS believes all pulpit speakers are paedo.
The True Doctor wrote:
On 19/03/2024 08:59, Blueshirt wrote:
Well, I'm going to have a midnight Doctor Who watching party
with my son for Season One...
Are you out of you mind? Why do you want to expose your son to
a bunch of woke perverts who want to sexually groom him?
My son watches Doctor Who because he likes it... if, unlike some
people, he didn't like it, then he wouldn't watch it.
if interested enough we/him/me might watch the episode
again when it's broadcast later on that day.
How old is he? Do you seriously want to expose him even more
to that perverted cross dresser Gatwa?
Old enough and intelligent enough to watch a TV show and not
consider its contents to be grooming!
You've not see House of the Dragon then?
We are looking forward to the double episode season launch in
May especially... new Doctor Who... in the night! It'll
almost be like when we did the Game of Thrones new episode
thing at 2am. That was great fun. (Until the last season!)
Trust me, midnight Doctor Who watching parties are gonna
become a 'thing'!
Unfortunately, yes.
The True Doctor wrote:
On 21/03/2024 10:27, Blueshirt wrote:
The True Doctor wrote:
On 19/03/2024 09:21, Blueshirt wrote:
I think you'll find the 2023 Doctor Who specials were in
UHD on the iPlayer... well, the BBC certainly announced
they would be anyway.
They were not in UHD for anyone wanting to watch them on a
PC. You don't even get normal Full HD on iPlayer.
What set up do you have if you are not getting UHD on the
iPlayer? (For the selected programmes that are filmed in UHD
obviously!) Can your PC monitor - and internet connection -
handle 4K streams?
UHD is explicitly forbidden from being streamed on PCs by the
BBC on iPlayer. Do you even use it?
Not in UHD as I do not have a 4K set-up. I get BBC1 naturally in
HD on my TV, and the iPlayer in HD on my computer - and iPhone -
with a VPN. Hence my comment "the BBC announced they was anyway"
about Doctor Who being streamed in UHD. I'm only trying to help
a grumpy old man!
So, the problem isn't that Doctor Who is not made in 4K (it is)
or the BBC don't stream it in 4K (they do), the problem is that
you use a computer to watch television programmes and do not get
the full quality because of it.
As a licence payer, you should complain to the BBC about this
terrible injustice.
You are constantly reminding us that you pay for a UK TV
licence, so e-mail BBC iPlayer support if you think you
should be getting a better picture quality from your iPlayer
streams.
Why don't you actually do some research for a change.
Because I was trying to be helpful and offer possible solutions
for your and your UHD 'issue'. You could still e-mail BBC support
and complain to them rather than moaning here all the time about
every single thing.
In article <xn0ojmfkj7gq62n003@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
The True Doctor wrote:
On 22/03/2024 03:18, The Doctor wrote:
In article <utiosf$2i4ur$2@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
Why you let the deviants pray on your children obviously.
BS believes all pulpit speakers are paedo.
And yet he exposes his son to perverts pretending to entertain
children in order to lull them into a false sense of security
so that they can prey on them.
He's 29, I think he can decide for himself if a family
entertainment show is corrupting his mind ... or sexually
grooming him! You don't need to be the moral judge for everyone.
Believe it or not, some people are capable of thinking for
themselves. If you want to be the next Mary Whitehouse go and
set up your TV watching association and give us all some peace...
Yeah! Yeah!
Ever caught the BBc@ doc on Mary Whitehouse?
In article <utndo4$3rhuh$2@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
Ever caught the BBc2 doc on Mary Whitehouse?
Yes. She started out because a bunch of perverts were using BBC drams to
sexually groom children.
IIRC, I have all 3 parts.
On 2024-03-23 2:23 p.m., The True Doctor wrote:
On 22/03/2024 14:44, The Doctor wrote:
In article <xn0ojmfkj7gq62n003@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
The True Doctor wrote:
On 22/03/2024 03:18, The Doctor wrote:
In article <utiosf$2i4ur$2@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
Why you let the deviants pray on your children obviously.
BS believes all pulpit speakers are paedo.
And yet he exposes his son to perverts pretending to entertain
children in order to lull them into a false sense of security
so that they can prey on them.
He's 29, I think he can decide for himself if a family
entertainment show is corrupting his mind ... or sexually
grooming him! You don't need to be the moral judge for everyone.
Believe it or not, some people are capable of thinking for
themselves. If you want to be the next Mary Whitehouse go and
set up your TV watching association and give us all some peace...
Yeah! Yeah!
Ever caught the BBc@ doc on Mary Whitehouse?
Yes. She started out because a bunch of perverts were using BBC drams
to sexually groom children.
Your interpretation of history is almost hilarious, almost.
What you meant to say was that she was a bitter bit of baggage who
wanted to impose her version of Christianity on the British public and
sadly had a flock of sheep who followed her without question.
Speaking of sheep, perhaps if you had your coat sheared you would be
much happier.
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