On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:25:49 -0700 Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/2013 8:06 AM, deadalnix wrote: > > For real. Just imagine that most countries are as bad as Australia, > > but not English speaking, and you get the idea. I experienced > > France and Denmark, and both are worst (Netherland seems better). > > Well, here we don't get Danish TV shows, either, in any manner. > > And I find it baffling as to why. They're just leaving easy money on > the table by not doing it. Ditto for the TV shows from every other > country. Wouldn't it be great if in Seattle you could tune into the > Moscow Evening News, or the Rwanda TV station? Why the heck not? > > Recently, PBS started a Roku channel where they show PBS shows for > free. I eagerly signed up for it, and was very disappointed that > there's only a handful of shows on it. Even worse, when they add a > new show, they expire an older one. > > Fer gawd's sake, why not put their entire freakin' back catalog on it? > > For example, there's a "sampling" of a few of Julia Childs' shows > from the 60's. Why not put them all on? Yea. Shortly before we ditched cable, our provider had a two-month promotion where we got NHK <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK> without having to upgrade to the super-duper-ultra-$$$-deluxe tier (or whatever TWC's marketing dept called it). I could barely understand a word, but I loved it, easily my favorite station (American network TV is mostly just unwatchable shit - all manic directing and brooding melodramas). I miss Somewhere Street and Hirubura. Another NHK show (some talk show, I forget the name) is how I found out about Keiko Matsui - one of the best smooth jazz musicians out there IMO. About the main consolation for no longer having NHK now is that I'm far more productive without it ;)
