Thoughts on G4Tech TV...
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So, let's see...Fresh Gear, Invent This, the Screen Savers, Call for Help and an occasional dose of Robot Wars. 5 programs that made a channel worth watching.
It'll be interesting to see what it has going for it in about a month.
It'll be interesting to see what it has going for it in about a month.
The Screen Savers is the only thing I DVR too and I have noticed that it just does not seem to have quite the kick that it used to or it seems different.
The reason Comcast bought this channel was for national distribution of their G4 channel. Before they could not get that channel on other providers' systems except their own.
Buying TechTV allowed them to get instantaneous nationwide carriage.
They really don't care too much that TechTV is dead. After all they practically fired everyone.
I now see why other providers refused to carry G4 all this time.
Buying TechTV allowed them to get instantaneous nationwide carriage.
They really don't care too much that TechTV is dead. After all they practically fired everyone.
I now see why other providers refused to carry G4 all this time.
rtt2 said:
So, Comcast bought out a perfectly decent channel just to get nationwide carriage of something that everyone except gamers won't watch?
Not a smart move...
long_time_DNC said:
Actually it is a very smart move from a business standpoint.
TechTV was owned Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures. TechTV like most of Allen's investment have been bleeding money fora while. Allen decided he could no longer keep giving TechTV any more money and finally sold.
He got pennies on the dollar for how much he invested over the years in it. Comcast got a channel cheap that had nationwide coverage.
Now Comcast gets to charge other providers money to carry the new channel and turn a profit.
The first thing Comcast does is cut expenses and axes all TechTV staff and moves their existing channel content from G4 over to the new entity. They now can sustain the new entity because providers are already locked into long-term contracts. Even when G4TechTV contract will expire Comcast has other channels they will bargain with that will guarantee carriage. If you want E! or Style or Golf Channel you have to get G4TechTV.
In addition they get national spot ad revenue.
Now Comcast customers no longer have to pay for this waste of bandwidth but we do.
From a business view its brilliant
From a user view it sucks.
Depends on how the advertising contracts are written. Comcast may have just made a ton of money until the next ratings card comes out.long_time_DNC said:
This was TechTv's way of getting nationwide coverage going with G4TechTv and now they can get additional content for computers/technology and maybe perhaps have that to be the main content.
IMHO, you have it backwards. G4 was dying while TechTV was doing fine. As of the merger, they dumped most of the tech- & computer-related shows (Call For Help, Tech Live, etc.) and replaced them with hour after mindless hour of gaming junk.Stargazer said:
If they were going to do what you said, they would've done things differently.
They have ruined it!
I personally think that from this point on it will go down hill. I would really like to see the channel flop over and die. I never have liked comcast, especially after they scared all my good freinds a Disney. The new channel is nothing like the old one, and Fresh Gear & The Screen Savers are the only programs left worth TiVoing. I really think that it would be best to have separate channels for the gamers and the tech individuals. This G4TechTV think is way to far on the gaming end of the spectrum.
I knew something was wrong when Leo left The Screen Savers.
I personally think that from this point on it will go down hill. I would really like to see the channel flop over and die. I never have liked comcast, especially after they scared all my good freinds a Disney. The new channel is nothing like the old one, and Fresh Gear & The Screen Savers are the only programs left worth TiVoing. I really think that it would be best to have separate channels for the gamers and the tech individuals. This G4TechTV think is way to far on the gaming end of the spectrum.
I knew something was wrong when Leo left The Screen Savers.
I think that the new programming sucks 
They made a big mistake getting rid of Leo. I used to watch Call for Help, Fresh Gear and the Screensavers. Now every time that I look at this channel, I can only watch it for about 30 seconds before it is so annoying that I have to turn it off
Are there really enough gamers to keep this channel alive?
They made a big mistake getting rid of Leo. I used to watch Call for Help, Fresh Gear and the Screensavers. Now every time that I look at this channel, I can only watch it for about 30 seconds before it is so annoying that I have to turn it off
Are there really enough gamers to keep this channel alive?
ROLLTIDE said:
Arnt these your two favorite channels?
That explains a lot of things about you Jimmy.
I thought some people posted a while back that TechTv was not on as many outlets as G4 was. I think more people prefer TechTv over G4 but it was not in enough homes like G4 may have been (perhaps both of them had some cable/satellite providers they were not serving yet so with a merger both would be shown on many more providers).
heh, sorry to bring this post back from the dead but... I am a gamer and the only show I like on the channel is Judgement Day. I gave Electric Playground a chance because it had tommy and vic but it just wasn't as funny. I like Judgement day because they review the games and also do the crazy-guy/straight-man comedy routine that I find hilarious.
