Sport, Sport and more Sport

I spent the last 40 years pretending to be interested in Football because that's what men were supposed to do, it's a relief now being able to actively ignore it. It was a joy responding to people x years ago that I didn't even watch England in the world cup finals - such a change.

I'm interested though what it is you're missing on TV you can't watch on iPlayer?

I can't remember the last time I watched live TV (apart from whatever easy to watch Police Interceptor programme happens to be on while I'm eating my tea).  Is there a whole world of TV I don't know about which doesn't go on iPlayer? 

I player is a pain in the bum, stuff isn't automatically available often until at least after the program you want to watch has ended, which then messes up other things, if you can find it at all that is? Our equipment is getting on a bit and we have to have a cable connection from the hub which is diagonally opposite the tv and can't be moved without a whole load fiddling about weith aerial sockets and phone/internetsockets. Everytime openrach try and make improvements things get worse and then it s the hassle of trying to get hold of them and actually explaining whats happening and getting them to believe me. We have to contact BT, our service provider to do some stuff, they have to contact openreach to other stuff, it's a monumental hassle. We have limited options of service providers here, no cable for example and I'm not paying extra to have what sky chooses to allow us. Having walls made of mixed materials makes wireless signals either not get through at all or intermitantly cut out, our phones lines are overhead too which with the amount and severity of storms here adds another layer of hassle.

If it aint broke, we're not going to try and fix it, especially if it involves independent trades such as electricians and the like.

Also what of the people who have no access to iplayer becaue they hav no broad band and don't know how to use it, there are quite a few people on the island who have no clue about digital services. Some area's are very poorly served, I lived for 9 years in a place with no mobile signal and very intermitant broad band, it was so bad at 3am when they did a speed test, that they volunteered to cut our bills and give us a rebate.

I player is a pain in the bum, stuff isn't automatically available often until at least after the program you want to watch has ended, which then messes up other things, if you can find it at all that is? Our equipment is getting on a bit and we have to have a cable connection from the hub which is diagonally opposite the tv and can't be moved without a whole load fiddling about weith aerial sockets and phone/internetsockets. Everytime openrach try and make improvements things get worse and then it s the hassle of trying to get hold of them and actually explaining whats happening and getting them to believe me. We have to contact BT, our service provider to do some stuff, they have to contact openreach to other stuff, it's a monumental hassle. We have limited options of service providers here, no cable for example and I'm not paying extra to have what sky chooses to allow us. Having walls made of mixed materials makes wireless signals either not get through at all or intermitantly cut out, our phones lines are overhead too which with the amount and severity of storms here adds another layer of hassle.

If it aint broke, we're not going to try and fix it, especially if it involves independent trades such as electricians and the like.

Also what of the people who have no access to iplayer becaue they hav no broad band and don't know how to use it, there are quite a few people on the island who have no clue about digital services. Some area's are very poorly served, I lived for 9 years in a place with no mobile signal and very intermitant broad band, it was so bad at 3am when they did a speed test, that they volunteered to cut our bills and give us a rebate.