Come Back RTE, All is Forgiven!

I remember giving out about the TV here before on my previous expedition, but it really is terrible! There is no public service broadcaster as such, just a commercial operator that spends most of its air time advertising its crappy programmes (either on the current channel or one of its other crappy channels!) or just recycling the same adverts!

They have a free to air channel for each of the official languages (English, Malay, Mandarin & Tamil) and an Asian news channel in English. Each are bad, but the Malay & Tamil ones look especially chronic! The TV shows on the English channel are worse than before. You get the odd decent show (usually a season behind as it's cheaper to buy) and the odd decent movie, but the ads would drive you insane trying to watch them. Thank God for the Internet!

While in Harvey Norman (the feicker is here too, but thankfully without the annoying ads!) the other day, I asked herself why would you want a fancy flat screen TV when there's nothing to watch on it?! She assures me that you have to have cable here, which is the cat's pyjamas apparently. I'll believe that when I see it!

Incidentally, they had a 103 inch plasma TV going in Harvey Norman for about €50,000. I asked herself did she think we should get it for the home cinema room. She was not amused!