Comments on: Letter from a Disgruntled TechTV/G4 Viewer

By: ProBusinessGuy

ProBusinessGuy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:21:37 +0000

I agree im sick of this garbage. I would watch all those great shows back in the day. Now all they play is cops and cheaters. If i wanted to watch those crappy shows i would watch them on fox.

By: Cylon Crusader

Cylon Crusader — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:35:13 +0000

Tech tv was the way I liked it, right now G4 is only populated by filth and nothing more, they hae indeed lost their ways.

By: eric coressel

eric coressel — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:15:00 +0000

I think G4 is the coolest thing they put on television.

eric coressel

By: UncleJohn

UncleJohn — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:33:01 +0000

When I was on Win98SE, I watched TechTV, for help. Infact many times I tuned in and learned solutions to problems I would of otherwise spent hours to solve. I use to keep a tv tuned in to that channel non stop, expecialy when I was working on a unit, you just NEVER knew if the answer would come on right as your ripping your hair out by its roots.

Then slowly it changed, Call For Help died, and The ScreenSavers which was already heading down hill in its last season, finaly kicked the bucket. The channel had already in my eyes made the switch right then and there from TechTV to G4 sprinkled with remnants of its former glory.

Now I have that channel blocked on my unit set with a parental passcode just to make sure I never have to see a second of its hidious, pathetic humour, and its utter trash of information.

Its nice to have a private form of Call4Help available live and in person, with no corporate junk clogging up the works. Its also nice to have segments of everything available 24 hours a day in the form of recorded video. I just had to say that.

By: Stephen Wiseman

Stephen Wiseman — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:07:41 +0000

Where could I get G4′s email address? I can’t find on their site…

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 May 2007 04:47:55 +0000

The 420 special was a lot of fun. :-D I hope they re-run it so i can see it again. America needs to get over itself when it comes to pot.

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By: steve-oh

steve-oh — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:48:17 +0000

Tech TV was original and ingenious. True, it didn’t appeal to the masses but provided valuable information to those of us both in and out of the tech industry. It’s such a shame when media dorks think they have a better idea and just end up running off most viewers. Was it worth losing almost all viewers G4? Chris and Leo and Cat (Kat?) were the shining stars of your now truly sick network. What a shame. The writing is on the wall though…we don’t have to put up with what you feed us any longer. You should be very afraid. YOU’RE the ones who should be fired.

By: Phillip Miller

Phillip Miller — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:11:36 +0000

RIP TechTV

When I got satellite tv I was so excited to see that TechTV was on the listings. I watched every day and night. At the time a friend told me about G4 and that they had some good shows, so I was excited about the merger when I first heard about it. It only took a little while for me to realize that it was such a mistake. I can’t say I even look to see what is on there any more.

sad.

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:16:44 +0000

G4 is terrible.

Adolescent drivel followed by other dumb crap.

It has 3 Bright spots, Brainiac is sometimes entertaining (and not made by G4), Star Trek TNG (once again not made by G4), X-Play (last remnant of a blooming time for technology).

This channel is filled with re-runs and totally worthless other crap.

Attack of the Show is terrible.

Cheat wow you got an American Idol reject to host a show that otherwise would put hopped up meth heads to sleep.

Street Fury ROFL, there is nothing good I can say about this show.

The Man Show, was good, but once you’ve seen it, YOU’VE SEEN IT.

Cinematech: Nocturnal Emissions, BORING

Arrested Development, mediocre, sometimes ok.

Icons, some times ok, mostly terrible.

Ed the Sock’s Night Party, 3 letters, ugh

Happy Tree Friends, you’ve seen 1, you’ve seen them all.

The Screen Savers, one of the best tech shows of all time.

http://www.g4tv.com/shows/index.html

Judge the rest for yourself. The list is like a who’s who of crappy TV, and regular TV rejects.

Zach in Chicago

By: Emin

Emin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:36:45 +0000

TechTV was the BEST, those were the days…G4 is horrible these days. They have some good shows, but they’re not even a video game channel anymore.
The whole 420 thing was the network trying to be “hip” to attract viewers. Very ridiculous.

By: James

James — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:48:44 +0000

I can’t stand G4… X-play is the only thing on there that I actually find interesting anymore. I don’t smoke marijuana but I do know that it isn’t bad like the propaganda would like you to believe… I am always amazed that marijuana is illegal when alcohol is legal. (you won’t see anyone die from marijuana poisoning.)

By: drew olanoff

drew olanoff — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:33:38 +0000

I LOL’d.

By: Greg (canine in twitter)

Greg (canine in twitter) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:00:13 +0000

I so agree, Tech TV provided such a useful voice.

By: MediaMisfit

MediaMisfit — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:58:39 +0000

Yo Chris,

I’m with you… I have stopped watching TV for about 4 years now and I was sad when I heard of the takeover. I was REALLY surprised what I heard Leo’s voice coming through TWiT pod casts I believe. I was a sophomore in high school when I use to watch you guys while typing on a computer I worked a year at Subway to save up for. Now I’m a Marketing Coordinator for a RFID Education start up. It’s not necessarily that I don’t like TV just that with my computer and living in Dallas I don’t have the patience to sit down and be fed media all day. I have to go get it.

It’s so bizarre because I saw you at SouthBySouthWest last year with your red and was like “Was that Chris?”. Recently I’ve have dived head first into RSS feeds mostly RFID related and came across an article about the success of Twitter. Excited to see devour the possibilities of what Twitter had to offer I started adding friends until I found someone who had your face all over the background. IT WAS YOU! From there I linked on to your blog then UStream. The fact that I hadn’t stopped to talk to you at SXSW was over and now you were accessible and wondering why I was acting weird.

I’m young in my marketing career but still have an edge with the technicals interests which were further sparked by watching shows like “Call for Help” and “The Screen Savers”. I saw the piece you spoke about on UStream at the Web2.0 conference and its SO AWESOME! to see someone with a full few of the possibilities. I’m not saying other don’t see it also but I talk to other people everyday that have no idea about this sub web culture.

The same is similar to what I deal with everyday in the RFID industry. RFID is coming into existence under the nose everyone and nobody seems to know it.

Anyways, RANT OVER.

I’ve added your RSS Feed to my Google Reader so I’ll be checking back.

–MediaMisfit – I’ve got to get a webcam