... but discover by accident every so often, mucking around with the remote.
On the NZ version of Freeview, there are a couple of Christian channels. Mostly they seem to have preachers, the shiny smiley kind, but now and then I stumble across a movie, and I'm reminded that there's this other world, a whole entertainment (sort of) industry with a Message. And the production values are pretty good, so it's watchable, if you don't mind limited plots ("boy meets girl and God"). Millions do watch, I suppose.
Chinese is the main minority language catered for, 3 channels available. My only clue to their bias is in the writing: the PRC has simplified characters, Taiwan doesn't. So the sub-titles for soaps and costume dramas show where they originate. The travel documentaries are the only things I can get anything out of, mountains of Yunnan etc.
There's an Indian channel that I could blob in front of for ages. Budget Bollywood, on a 24 hour loop, it seems.
The shopping channels might have undiscovered gems, but I've never watched more than 10 seconds of those. And no, I haven't found the porn.
On the NZ version of Freeview, there are a couple of Christian channels. Mostly they seem to have preachers, the shiny smiley kind, but now and then I stumble across a movie, and I'm reminded that there's this other world, a whole entertainment (sort of) industry with a Message. And the production values are pretty good, so it's watchable, if you don't mind limited plots ("boy meets girl and God"). Millions do watch, I suppose.
Chinese is the main minority language catered for, 3 channels available. My only clue to their bias is in the writing: the PRC has simplified characters, Taiwan doesn't. So the sub-titles for soaps and costume dramas show where they originate. The travel documentaries are the only things I can get anything out of, mountains of Yunnan etc.
There's an Indian channel that I could blob in front of for ages. Budget Bollywood, on a 24 hour loop, it seems.
The shopping channels might have undiscovered gems, but I've never watched more than 10 seconds of those. And no, I haven't found the porn.
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