Monday, April 19, 2010

SCV's new numbering system

News came out a few weeks ago that Starhub is changing their channels numbering system from 30th April, and that's bad news for me.
I've memorised all their channels numbering by heart, and I can press the buttons on the remote control without looking at it. That's how pro I am when it comes to the television.
Now that they've come up with a new numbering system, it means that it's time for me to erase the stored data in my brain and install new ones in.

Let's take a look at the new numbering system:
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Well, as we can all see, the free local channels, a.k.a Mediacorp channels, will be '100+whatever-they-used-to-be'. For instance, Channel NewsAsia will be changed from '006' to '106'; and kiddy's favourite OKTO from '008' to '108'. In them will include other foreign channels such as French TV5 which Starhub conveniently named 'International/Ethnic'.
From then onwards, the numberings are simply screwed up.
Sports channels will be next in line, starting with the 200s.
Kiddies choices in the 300s. Well, in my memory, kids' channels are always have something to do with '3'... Anyone remember that Disney channel used to be on ch.13 for English and 23 for Mandarin? HA! And why are kid's shows after the sports?
Education is in the 400s. Why the hell is sports in front of education?!?
Entertainment is in the 500s range. Can someone explain why is 'FOXCRIME' in Entertainment? Morbid people! And again, how the hell does Sports come way before Entertainment?
Movies will be in the 600s, so far away that I don't even think I'll press it to watch it.
700s are for the news channels, which is so wrong. Imagine wanting to watch some breaking news, and then you'll have to press the bloody number '7' which is located at the bottom of the remote control button panel. Then your finger, or thumb, will have to stretch itself to the higher buttons like 1, 2 and 3 before you can swtich the channel to a news channel to catch that breaking news. By the time your fingers, or that one sad thumb, manages to press those numbers which are so far away from each other, that breaking news would have become outdated.
800s are for Chinese channels. What's this? An outcast is it?!? The last of everything has the be the Chinese channels, and the last time I've checked, JET TV is Japanese, not Chinese. What's more unbelievable is that Sports is actually before Chinese! What's this?!

WHY THE HELL ARE SPORTS CHANNELS IN FRONT?
I know that I have the choice of not needing to press those 2++ channels, but it's simply an eyesore that is comes before Educations, News, Entertainment and Chinese! It should seriously be at the end of the line, considering that no one really gives a damn about sports unless it's the World Cup/ NBA/ Olympics/ YOG/ Sportmen Engaging in Scandals season.
No doubt I know that sports channels are what that's giving them most $$$ (as Sports channels are the only channels subscribed by coffee stalls and even in NTU hostels), but that's not the way to show your gratitude to the consumers right? tsk tsk tsk.

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