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Slow television

36 points by galfarragem 8y ago

galfarragem 8y ago
Examples of slow TV: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18457671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18457671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458442
Angostura 8y ago
The BBC had been showing some excellent slow TV recently on BBC 4. I particularly liked the bus journey through the Yorkshire Dales https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044g8yx https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044g8yx and Autralia's Ghan train - which runs North to South through the red centre https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bq3jnv https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bq3jnv List of all the programmes in their slow season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Four_Goes_Slow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Four_Goes_Slow
TheMiddleMan 8y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/SlowTV/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SlowTV/
snorkel 8y ago
Reminds me of Desert Bus https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-b...
jfoutz 8y ago
Not exactly the same thing, but I found breath of the wild 100%speedruns pretty calming and engaging. Mostly link running. Occasional intense battles. Every 15 min or so, you see something really clever. I know it’s not quite the same thing, but the game is so expansive I think it points in the same direction.
tgb 8y ago
Reminds me of http://astronaut.io/# http://astronaut.io/# - a page that plays Youtube videos that "no one" has seen before. Just random moments of people's lives they wanted to capture, then a few seconds later, something else. It's highly soothing and rather touching. Kids singing, school projects, birthdays, strange nothings that you have no idea why they videoed, let alone uploaded, it.
johnwatson11218 8y ago
Doug Stanhope was talking about how he was in Norway and there was a 12 hour show that was all about a single boat trip. He said he loved that kind of tv and that even if he had been on that boat ride he would have stayed in his cabin and just watched the televised version. He made a joke about how he would have to stay and watch the whole thing just to see how it all turned out.
toofy 8y ago
I would love to see more content which falls in the between this and the extremely overedited-for-excitement stuff which seems so pervasive now.
gm6001 8y ago
The cycling grand tours are 95% slow TV actually.
kristianp 8y ago
This reminds me of watching surfing competitions. Much of the time is spent watching competitors wait for waves, which is very peaceful to watch. It would be great if someone live-streamed walking along a beach for a few hours.

36 points by galfarragem 8y ago

Examples of slow TV: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18457671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18457671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458442

Angostura 8y ago

The BBC had been showing some excellent slow TV recently on BBC 4. I particularly liked the bus journey through the Yorkshire Dales https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044g8yx https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044g8yx and Autralia's Ghan train - which runs North to South through the red centre https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bq3jnv https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bq3jnv List of all the programmes in their slow season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Four_Goes_Slow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Four_Goes_Slow

TheMiddleMan 8y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/SlowTV/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SlowTV/

snorkel 8y ago

Reminds me of Desert Bus https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-b...

jfoutz 8y ago

Not exactly the same thing, but I found breath of the wild 100%speedruns pretty calming and engaging. Mostly link running. Occasional intense battles. Every 15 min or so, you see something really clever. I know it’s not quite the same thing, but the game is so expansive I think it points in the same direction.

tgb 8y ago

Reminds me of http://astronaut.io/# http://astronaut.io/# - a page that plays Youtube videos that "no one" has seen before. Just random moments of people's lives they wanted to capture, then a few seconds later, something else. It's highly soothing and rather touching. Kids singing, school projects, birthdays, strange nothings that you have no idea why they videoed, let alone uploaded, it.

johnwatson11218 8y ago

Doug Stanhope was talking about how he was in Norway and there was a 12 hour show that was all about a single boat trip. He said he loved that kind of tv and that even if he had been on that boat ride he would have stayed in his cabin and just watched the televised version. He made a joke about how he would have to stay and watch the whole thing just to see how it all turned out.

toofy 8y ago

I would love to see more content which falls in the between this and the extremely overedited-for-excitement stuff which seems so pervasive now.

gm6001 8y ago

The cycling grand tours are 95% slow TV actually.

kristianp 8y ago

This reminds me of watching surfing competitions. Much of the time is spent watching competitors wait for waves, which is very peaceful to watch. It would be great if someone live-streamed walking along a beach for a few hours.