I decided to watch E3 on G4TV because I had nothing to do. Man, that was a bad idea. I shouldn't have bothered, waiting through countless 5 minute ads for coverage, and instead just tuned in on the internet. I won't do it next year.

I don't look forward to seeing what G4TV has to offer anymore, but I do catch the channel time to time when I'm flipping through looking for something to watch. The channel wasn't personally requested from my cable company, just part of the cable package. So, no, I would not pay extra for just this channel.

It seems like 90% of the time, G4TV is showing a bunch of Japanese guys running around an obstacle course. I mean, what the hell. Sure it's funny for the first 10 minutes, watching them jump around and failing. But it appears "Ninja Warrior" is G4TV's prized program. Yes, middle aged half naked men doing acrobats is the greatest thing they have to offer right now. To add to that, they also show reruns of Cheaters over and over and feature marathons of that program. Great, a show about bunch of dickwads thinking they some sort of covert investigation team, armed with 100 dollar camcorders and an ego, stalking the cheating spouse/lover of a some dumbass who can't figure out that he/she is cheating. Good game.

G4TV claims that it is a channel for us video game lovers, but it seems that it's not the case anymore. Comparing the number of actual video-game related shows to their other content, it's easy to see that the focus is hardly on all things video games anymore. The "other content" being programming people already seen before, such as COPS and Arrested Development. Don't get me wrong, those are great shows...but I've watched them before back when they were popular. Oh yeah, adding a crappy touch to a show doesn't make that show more G4TV "exclusive". Because I dream about watching Star Trek on a smaller screen with useless garbage all around it, including fun facts and in-depth opinions by people over the internet that no one cares about. Yes, Star Trek 2.0 is as fun as surfing the internet with pop-ads. Brilliant. And don't forget to show LOL YouTube clips every 3 minutes because I would be damned if I have to figure out how to go to Youtube myself.

There use to be few redeeming aspects of G4TV. Redeeming, like finding a few dollars in a wallet that belongs to a corpse washed up on a shore. I really liked Icons (which is now Game Developers or whatever now, I don't remember). The show was interesting and informative, cool to watch. It's hardly on anymore. And maybe occasionally Judgment Day. Sure, you might hate those 2 guys. But they at least talked about video games. Now, I don't know. XPlay? Maybe. Attack of the Show annoys me. I like how they exploit the female hostess's good looks every so often so viewers watch. Stupid.

It is true that you can easily switch channels. I've done it many times, with little effort, after watching the nth hairless body of a Japanese guy fall toward the ground. But this doesn't stop me from saying that G4TV sucks. I know it's obvious, but I needed to get it out of my system due to recent viewings. Everytime I watch, I hold onto may chair firmly because I worry that G4 will make my television collapse into itself and cause a total vortex of suckage to exist in my living room.

Whatever.

Wow. So angry.

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yeah I figured it sucked... don't watch it, myself

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I watched the microsoft press event on g4. Such a bad idea.

They cut to commercials during the mass effect trailer, I missed the Bioshock trailer, missed the CoD4 trailer, the Rock Band trailer. They kept cutting away from the trailers to show the screen on which the trailer was being shown, at an angle, completely destroying the trailer.

Then, at the end of the evening, they finally ended it with the Halo 3 trailer. Half way through, they break to the screen it's being played on, then Adam Sessler starts talking over the trailer, then they cut to commercial in the middle of the trailer, meaning I miss half of the biggest trailer in the thing.


DIE G4.

Ninja Warrior is the only redeemable part of G4, in my opinion, but I do have unusual reasons for liking the show.

Adam Sessler was making fun of the producers.. at risk to his job.

He was upset they were cutting away FOR THE ****ING COMMERICALS THAT WERE SCHEDULED. YOU KNOW, THOSE THINGS THEY HAVE TO SHOW ON TELEVISION SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY $600 A MONTH FOR CABLE. (And this is so your local cable company can play LOCAL ads over the commercials they're actually broadcasting) Should they have re-scheduled their ads? Definately. But I'm not a TV exec, I don't pretend to know how to run a cable television channel or how that kinda **** works.

Grow up. Stop whining. You were going to torrent it in ****ing mega-hi-def anyways.


Ninja Warrior is a pretty awesome show, if you pay attention.

I like The Feed segments, because they enable me to be lazy. Sadly that girl has slowly been losing her very british accent over the last year or so. :/

I like X-play.

I'd do Free Stuff, but I work at that time of night.

They show movies I like on G4, like The Big Lebowski.

G4 is popular to hate, like Hot Topic.

E3 is a major, live event though. There are other live events that can go commercial free. Or if this is the case, why make it live? Why not just close to live, so you can interject commercials, but not miss anything? That seems like it'd make more sense..

Higher ratings I guess. Which means more people will watch.

More people seeing commercials is a good thing for them.

what? when was this?




IMPOSSIBLE!

I don't really feel like reading this thread, but I think that G4 is pure ****. The destruction of TechTV actually made me want to watch much less TV. Now I mostly just watch the old TechTV guys via their podcasts, etc. I still like Adam though...

Might want to move to Canada. G4 Tech TV Canada is much better and doesn't have stupid shows like that. The only unbearable show to watch is Cheat. AotS has actually gotten better and toned down the 'wine woman and song' vibe it had going for a while and focused more on technology.


Their E3 coverage stinks though.

yeah, ninja warrior is actually pretty cool.

The "poor company it's just capitalism" thing doesn't work here. The whole idea of capitalism hinges on creating something or providing a service that people want. If you make short sighted decisions to increase your profit you end up just ticking people off and in the long run you loose money. Companies ruining all of their content to fit in more ads is an example of failing at capitalism, and driving your company into the ground.

It's TV

Everyone will come crawling back. Television makes all the slobbering idiots follow.

I don't think liking the show because it's the best ****ing game show ever created is unusual.

X-Play and Ninja Warrior are the only shows I watch on G4 now-a-days. But, I can't really think of a time when G4 was really all that great. As soon as they took over TechTV and canceled a lot of the decent shows just because they weren't "cool" enough, it's future didn't appear promising. Besides Ninja Warrior, Icons was their only creation that I actually liked.

I miss ZDTV. TechTV, too. I watch all of the ZDTV staff's podcasts, now. G4 is just a recycling of every other channel mixed in with vague generalizations about technology.

I HONESTLY think that TechTV (more ZDTV) was true educational TV, and it would've really pushed the technology industry on average people a lot faster. I genuinely believe we'd have less stupid technology users if ZDTV had remained on air. My PARENTS (you need to realize how insane this is) LOVED ZDTV. They freaking loved it. We GOT digital cable TV because it was taken off of our normal cable's list. That's how much my cheapass family loved Call for Help and The Screen Savers. I think TSS was probably one of the greatest television shows... ever?



Holy ****. 3 impossibles at once.
1. Someone knows something about economics on massassi.
2. Capitalism is being correctly represented.
3. I agree with obi.

I'm going to write this down.

ALREADY POSTED

Anyways, yeah, I used to watch X-play, AOTS, and Ninja Warrior, and cinematech.

I can't get enough of the pretty girls they have there.

Arena (with the original hosts), Portal, and Judgement Day were among my favorite shows on TV when G4 was new, but I really can't stand what it's become.

I miss the Screensavers, Anime Unleashed, and Call For Help.

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i miss the old days when there were 2 channels and they filled airtime with re-runs instead of crap that doesn't fit into the whole theme of the other shows (anime)

Is it G4 that airs Trek 2.0? Because that is just horrible, absolutely horrible.

Yes

Call For Help was on G4 Tech TV Canada for a couple more seasons before becoming The Lab With Leo Laporte

I get all my Leo Laporte needs from KFI AM 640 (More Stimulating Talk Radio!)

I agree completely. I would watch G4 all the time back when the only show they had that wasn't necessarily video games was Anime Unleashed. But the way I see it, G4 in a way has become like the MTV of video games.