{"id":122,"date":"2013-09-17T06:25:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=122"},"modified":"2013-09-17T06:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:25:26","slug":"its-the-end-foxtel-download-is-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/its-the-end-foxtel-download-is-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Its the End..Foxtel Download is Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fashion TV we miss all those hours staring at what we can never have..although note to models..no speaking please!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got a letter from Foxtel the other day (hang on do they advertise with us….) telling me
\nheir download service has been Kuthlumped. No explanation, just we\u2019re closing it. This
\nI found rather curious as I disconnected Foxtel a year or two ago!<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t their fault really, I wasn\u2019t really chuffed about paying for a service with
\nadvertising, but I had it connected in the full knowledge it was there. The young
\nbeautiful and very reasonable girl that came to my door through the mists of
\nBachelorhood showed me that it was for me.<\/p>\n

To my thinking Pay TV should be about much much less advertising than free to air TV.
\nMaybe sneak an ad in their now and then but wherever possible put the brakes on
\nintrusive advertising. But in balance I liked the content they had \u00a0available \u00a0(the young
\nbeautiful girl told me I did) and it seemed like a good deal.<\/p>\n

I have read the \u201cwe did \u00a0a survey and 200% of people said they missed the advertising
\nand please could they have it back\u201d put out by the Pay TV industry too, do they really
\nthink Australian\u2019s believe that?<\/p>\n

The actual reason I ground my teeth and had Foxtel switched off was that after paying
\nfor every movie package I could find I discovered they are required to censor movies
\njust like Free to air TV stations. I say \u201crequired\u201d because I don\u2019t blame Foxtel for this
\npolicy, its something that was imposed on them from the dark days of the Family
\nFirst-Howard government. I don\u2019t necessarily always want to watch the type of movie\u2019s
\nthat might be subjected to the censors scissors, but as a coughing, hairy, obese middle
\nage adult male I expect the right to choose what I do and don\u2019t see without some
\ndo-gooder deciding for me on the basis of the religious or social values they consider
\nto be the norm, usually held by a minority.<\/p>\n

The argument of the \u201ccontrol everything we see and hear\u201d brigade was always \u201cGod
\nwon\u2019t someone protect the children\u201d. Hmm ok. I agree, I am very outspoken about
\nchildren and teenagers being closely supervised when accessing the Internet because
\nof the amount of really awful (and plain sexually misleading) stuff on there. \u00a0However
\nwe have a morass of \u00a0parental locks and pin codes on Foxtel to just precisely \u201cprotect
\nthe children\u201d from harmful images. The Federal government also made it a requirement
\nof all new Digital set top boxes sold in Australia, that they have a parental locking
\nmechanism.<\/p>\n

So there is now precisely no excuse for this arcane television censorship regime with
\nwatershed\u2019s\u00a0and\u00a0AO Modified \u00a0versions\u00a0. Ok one in a hundred parents will still not
\nprotect their children from harmful content even with this technology in place, but the
\nsame parents will probably also for example take drugs in front of their children, feed
\nthem dog food or takeaways for breakfast, Lunch and Dinner and generally give them
\nthe poor care no amount of laws can stop.<\/p>\n

That this type of control continues unabated, makes it pretty clear to me that it was
\njust the minority imposing their \u00a0narrow views on everyone in the first place, they care
\nlittle \u201cfor the children\u201d or anything else. I can see a conspiracy theory developing here,
\nI need a coffee and a lay down…<\/p>\n

I liked Foxtel and if they ever get the Movie censorship sorted out I will probably
\nsubscribe again, why if a fabulously beautiful Foxtel girl came to my door tomorrow
\nand said those magic words \u201cuncensored movies\u201d everything would be wonderful and
\nLand of Oz. Note to Foxtel Reps: Sorry \u201cSports Package\u201d is as good as trying to sell me
\nstatic on the screen…why is their this assumption that we all love \u201cthe footy\u201d because
\nwe\u2019re male. \u201cWe\u2019re bringing back Fashion TV\u201d is probably better if you are looking for
\na \u201cdead cert\u201d multipurpose sales pitch for the average male at the door..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a letter from Foxtel the other day (hang on do they advertise with us….) telling me heir download service has been Kuthlumped. No explanation, just we\u2019re closing it. This I found rather curious as I disconnected Foxtel a year or two ago! It wasn\u2019t their fault really, I wasn\u2019t really chuffed about paying … Continue reading “Its the End..Foxtel Download is Closing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}