How to screw up a Network 101.

[Wildkat]

It seems comcast not content with screwing up Tech TV with thier G4 garabge, has canned Unscrewed and is "retooling" The Screen Savers.

http://forums.g4techtv.com/messagevi...hreadid=288229

I havent watched it for more than an hour total since comcast took over, I cant believe how quickly it has turned into total shit..


Well at least Leo is on in Canada.

[Dyne]

i hate TSS. they always act like everything they show and talk about THEY invented and nobody could possibly know about it until they bless us with their wisdom. when anybody that knows dick about the internet could do the exact same thing they do. i mean really when anybody asks a serious technical question Kevin usually blows off the main point of the question anyway.

[Drewbacca]

The Screen Savers was a solid show, but it was more of a jack of all trades show and didn't go indepth on anything to the point where most techies would get into it. But at the same time Leo Laporte instilled a lot of entertainment value into the program and knew how to conduct a good interview. The chemistry between the staff really helped that show gel well, and as soon as G4 took it over the station lost a lot of that chemistry. But at the same time it was just a little dinky television show. It's not that big of a deal. As soon as Leo left it lost its lead and should've been cancelled then with all of the talent forming another show in a different format.

Martin Sergeants show was never funny (3/4's of his jokes never get a response outside of pity applaud) and is the TV show equivalent to Whoopie Goldberg. It's shit at what it does, yet nobody seems to know how it made it this far. G4 TechTV is a god awful network, I'll give you that. Penny Arcade has them tagged pretty good, and it all boils down to the image of a hardcore gangstar rapper on a skateboard doing a huge flip off of a ramp while being chased by a car. He'll be sporting one of those trendy tukes and be holding a gaming gadget in his hands with a constipated expression on his face. This is the typical gamer image they convey.

but the #1 thing I hate about their station are those 30 - 1 minute 'facts' that air before the show comes back from commercial. They're always so lame. It teaches you about Google and monotonous things like how double clicking to open files work. Really, I'd rather watch two commercial in that time span than be taught down to by a disembodied voice.

If there were any alternatives to see hi-res and fluent video of games on my television screen I wouldn't even watch the network.