Top Gear on 9

[Big Shed]

Watched the first hour of a 2 hour special of the "premiere" of Top Gear on 9 last night, I wasn't up to watching the second hour, keeping that for another time.

This is the first time I have been able to record Top Gear on my new Panasonic PVR, just as well I recorded it and watched it in "time shift" mode. Man the ads! First 3 lots of ads took 4 presses of the skip button, which skips forward by exactly 1 minute, so the first 2 blocks of ads were 4 minutes each, after that they were 3.5 minutes In total the first hour took 40 minutes to watch.

Interestingy, I was in Adelaide last Tuesday and 9 broadcast a "premiere" Top Gear special of the 3 "boys in Bolivia. The cricket was on in Adleaide and 9 didn't braodcast the 1 day match from the Adelaide Oval.

[jimbur]

I was an avid watcher of Top Gear though ads on SBS put me off. I didn't even bother with ch9 having a low tolerance to advertising.
I'll borrow the dvds instead.
Cheers,
Jim

[damian]

I missed it, was it a repeat or a new episode ?

Also which panasonic did you get ? I bought a dmr-xw350 late last year when my topfield died (after 18 months!). Not always intuitive and desperately slow to shift from tv to direct navigator to guide etc, but it does a lot of stuff really nicely.

[rod1949]

Jeremy interviewed Eric Banner. They talked a bit about Bathurst, I'm surprised Eric didn't correct Jeremy on his discussing pronunciation of Bathurst

[Big Shed]

I missed it, was it a repeat or a new episode ?

Also which panasonic did you get ? I bought a dmr-xw350 late last year when my topfield died (after 18 months!). Not always intuitive and desperately slow to shift from tv to direct navigator to guide etc, but it does a lot of stuff really nicely.

Got the same one, picked it up at Tricky Dicky for $700. It works really well, bu you're right it is a bit of a learning curve and the manual isn't always very helpful.

Got most things under control now and have burned quite a few things to DVD. Normally I try to edit the ads out before I watch something takes abit of extra time but the ultimate watching experience is a lot nicer.

The other day we were watching the one day match from the Gabba, started watching an hour after it started recording. By the time we were haflway through the match we had caught up! Bonus not having to listen to the same ads (Hardly Normal et al) ad nauseum.

Treated ourselves to a flat screen LCD as well, so quite a pleasant TV experience now.

All the programs we watch, not that many, are put in the recorder via EPG and we watch whenever we feel like it and skip through the ads. We even record ABC News and Australian Story. Sort of TV on demand

These were 2 new episodes of Top Gear, series 14 I think.

I can put them on DVD for you if you want.

[Big Shed]

Jeremy interviewed Eric Banner. They talked a bit about Bathurst, I'm surprised Eric didn't correct Jeremy on his discussing pronunciation of Bathurst

I think that was a deliberate "bait" thrown out by Mr Clarkson and Eric Bana chose to ignore it.

[Avery]

Got the same one, picked it up at Tricky Dicky for $700. It works really well, bu you're right it is a bit of a learning curve and the manual isn't always very helpful.

Got most things under control now and have burned quite a few things to DVD. Normally I try to edit the ads out before I watch something takes abit of extra time but the ultimate watching experience is a lot nicer.

The other day we were watching the one day match from the Gabba, started watching an hour after it started recording. By the time we were haflway through the match we had caught up! Bonus not having to listen to the same ads (Hardly Normal et al) ad nauseum.

Treated ourselves to a flat screen LCD as well, so quite a pleasant TV experience now.

All the programs we watch, not that many, are put in the recorder via EPG and we watch whenever we feel like it and skip through the ads. We even record ABC News and Australian Story. Sort of TV on demand

These were 2 new episodes of Top Gear, series 14 I think.

I can put them on DVD for you if you want.

Ummm

My head must be playing tricks on me cause I am sure I have seen the Eric Bana interview before (at about the time his car movie came out) and the second hour with Hammond and the Citroen in the deep freeze also seems very familiar - that's when I turned it off.

[RufflyRustic]

I enjoyed it all! I don't think I've laughed out loud at a tv programme so much for so long now. Thought watching it without the ads would have been much, much better....

[Cliff Rogers]

The adverts are a pain.

[beer is good]

Yeah, the ads on Channel 9 are so ANNOYING. But it does give you time to get another beer, make room for another beer, make a cuppa for LOML, see what's on the other channels...

The second show was a repeat from about 4 years ago as they were talking about winter olympics in Norway. But great to watch anyway.

[FRB Design]

If SBS hadnt blown so much money on the shocking attempt to make the Aussie Top Gear they wouldnt of had to sell it to Channel 9.

Long live TOPGEAR uk on any channel, I think its a small world when a couple of adds become that annoying, dont want adds go buy the DVD Box Set

[Big Shed]

Ummm

My head must be playing tricks on me cause I am sure I have seen the Eric Bana interview before (at about the time his car movie came out) and the second hour with Hammond and the Citroen in the deep freeze also seems very familiar - that's when I turned it off.

Having just watched the second part, you are absolutely correct, it was indeed a repeat!

The next "Series Premiere" will be in 2 weeks

Hadn't seen the first one before though.

[hitch]

The promos seemed to indicate that it was a new series -- but-- yes the entire two hours had previously been on Australian television.

[Big Shed]

The promos seemed to indicate that it was a new series -- but-- yes the entire two hours had previously been on Australian television.

The promos did indeed indicate these were 2 "premiere episodes"

from the green pages of The Age:

"Wisely, Nine kicks off with back-to-back premiere epsiodes of the latest (14th) season....."

Obviously a direct lift from a Channel Nine press release.

B*st*rds couldn't lie straight in bed

[graemet]

Yes, the "new series special" WAS a bunch of repeats, some going back several years. Still funny and watchable, but a con job just the same.
The commercial channels seem to have no shame when it comes to station promos. The other practice which shows their contempt for viewers is the shameless over-running of programmes so that you can't tape a show and be assured of getting the whole thing, or, if you're watching a show to the end, you miss the start of another that's on a different channel.
A similar tactic is to run the start of the next show while the credits for the previous one are still running in a panel at the bottom of the screen.
Rant, rant, rant!!! and I mean it!