https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television

Freely available for those interested: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/sjakk

[1] https://kampanje.com/medier/2021/12/kvelden-for-kvelden-mist...

(Big hugs to all nations involved of course)

[0] Just from a single camera at the front of the train, no further editing. I haven't seen the Norwegian and Swedish Slow TV yet, but I get the impression they use multiple cameras. The German version was super simple, but very relaxing in its simplicity.

[1] https://youtu.be/7ycjaWRnETU [2] https://youtu.be/2jI-Sn_X7x4?t=213

The wikipedia link above has 2009 as the earliest date.

In Austria you would find random scenic train rides on TV whenever you would switch on the TV in the middle of the night at least from 2002 onward, if not earlier... And I don't think this started in Austria.

When did the UK start broadcasting yule logs? In the United States it goes back to at least the mid 1960's, and possibly before. Stations in most large cities still air the show, though shorter now (1-3 hours) than before.

https://www.youtube.com/c/RailCowGirl

Especially good if you love trains, and amazing scenery.

And I'm puzzled.

Are the Scandinavians so bored that they find the dashcam of a train amusing?

When people are given good social security, food, healthcare, education and everything else, do they start to find life boring?

Update: I don't mean any offense to Scandinavians or anybody else.

Update 2: I'm not American, so please don't use the comment section to crap on Americans with the assumption that I'll be offended (and also think about what that reveals about you). This is hilarious.

Update 3: I now realise it's just one person who's doing all the aforementioned crapping (at the time of this update). Maybe that person is having a bad day.

* Along the coast: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/hurtigruten-minutt-for-minutt and https://tv.nrk.no/serie/svalbard-minutt-for-minutt and https://tv.nrk.no/serie/sommerskuta-minutt-for-minutt

* Train: https://tv.nrk.no/program/PRHO63004009

* Hiking: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/monsen-minutt-for-minutt and https://tv.nrk.no/serie/besseggen-minutt-for-minutt

* Driving: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/sommerbilen-minutt-for-minutt

* Singing: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/salmeboka-minutt-for-minutt

* The opera: https://tv.nrk.no/program/MKDE21000318

* Moving reindeers: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/reinflytting-minutt-for-minutt

[1] https://nrkbeta.no/bittorrent/

I think it's more of a nice background, that you keep on while doing something else (working, cooking, living in general), and sometimes check.

Same as a cozy fireplace, or a beautiful view from your window, or even a TV / radio left on whether someone listens to it or not

There's plenty of this stuff. Go on Twitch and you'll find people playing very uneventful video games for hours, and people will hang around to watch it. There has even been sessions of watching grass grow or paint dry, and people watched it.

Given??

We work 40h a week and pay taxes.

Social security is not to live on forever, its temporary until you find a job. If you are too sick, then yes you CAN get it forever.

Food? You think we are given food? We have supermarkets. Yes it is good quality as we have GOVERNMENTAL OVERSIGHT, unlike the USA where corporations are free to put raw pesticides in your Mcdonalds borgir.

Healthcare? - Yes paid for by taxes. Not given to us.

Education - Yes paid for by taxes. So that we can work, and pay taxes to fund it.

We BUILT this society. You had your chance and choose to build a hellhole made of roads, cars and 70h workweeks.

"oooh but we do so much inovation!!!" Sweden does too SAAB, Ericsson, Spotify, Minecraft. A nation of 10mil and we built our own jets and subs. Suck it.

We're (so far) free of the 70h workweeks, at least, but if you're trying to portray Sweden as somehow a car-free haven of environmentally-friendly cycling and walking along the lines of Denmark or The Netherlands, then you're really taking the blind nationalism too far...

> Sweden does too SAAB, Ericsson, Spotify, Minecraft. A nation of 10mil and we built our own jets and subs. Suck it.

...and here was me thinking this was a mild discussion about 'slow TV'...

In your culture do people typically crap on others and spread hate like you're doing here? Or is it just you?

I mean, seriously, what are you, 12?

Nice strawman argument, and ageism.

If you felt that I said your lot is lazy, that was a misunderstanding. A miscommunication.

For the record, I'll state it explicitly: I do not think people of Sweden (and the Scandinavians in general) are lazy.

There. I said it.

I have been as explicit as I possibly could, even though there's no reason for me to explain myself to a random rude person on the internet.

In my native language there's a saying that roughly translates to: don't climb up a ladder to get in the way of a bullet going across the sky.

I've committed this mistake.

Let's end this discussion.

GPs comment has plenty wrong with it but yours (multiple) does too.

Which country? "The average American works 34.4 hours per week, as of May 2019. For people between 25-54, the national average work week comes in at 40.5 hours."

Actually, I never put on TV in the background. Either there's something I want to watch or there isn't, in which case I turn off the TV.

I sometimes keep music on in the background. But this is only if I actually feel like listening to music. For instance, I can drive for hours with no music on (and no, my car exhaust note isn't very exciting).

Dont all americans have like 5 TVs on showing Fox News 24/7?

Or so at peace with life (knowing that we can get free healthcare and education if or when we need it) that we can find beauty in simple things, like moose migrating. ;-)

I enjoy picking mushrooms and bow making.

Looking at the state of the world, I'm happy that that's often as much excitement as we need here.

1. I didn't mention your name anywhere, yet you got offended.

2. That's a lie. I made the update after you posted.

3. Look at all the comments around. You're the only one spreading hate here. The few other posts partly disagreeing with me are still civil and polite. So the point of my comment still stands.

I'm not American. I'm not even Western. Infact I'm pretty far away from USA.

> Don't you have an 80h+ workweek to go back to?

40.

> And then maybe you can take 3 days off a year.

1 month. Which is probably less than what Europeans get, but I'm happy.

I live in a place where everyday can be surprising. It's a bit chaotic (thankfully no wars or anything), but I've learnt to enjoy it :)

Continuously getting eyeballs on hundreds of streams to select one for the show would be incredibly expensive (the linked streams seem to be more condensed than a 24/7 selection?), but it would be the perfect ML playground: feedback is solved, viewer metrics has been an established field for half a century, wrong answers are zero cost and you could create something that simply did not exist before: real time wildlife where there's actually something to see. (or maybe almost realtime, because the human showrunner might decide to allow a few minutes of serenity from the ringbuffer before the action that triggered the detector walks into view, that would still be good enough for "today, at the current time of day")

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>How many cameras are there?

In total there are 7 night cameras, 26 remote cameras, 1 manual camera and 1 drone. All interconnected by 22,000 metres of cable via 15 hubs.

Also, twitch chat!

Slow is just enough energy for something to be happening: a video from a train is 'slow'.

Videos of nature, that's almost 'still' or almost, it's actually kind of a different experience.

I hadn't seen this kind of content before and was waiting for a while til I figured to skip forward and, by the 24th hour, the counter (which I figured must mean moose but it doesn't say) was still at zero zero zero.

I can see the appeal but the title is a bit unfortunate if you aren't already familiar with it.

Is like reheating a souffle, every time you do it, the taste gets more stale.

I was so fortunate to see that movie in a movie theatre when it came out, without knowing what to expect... And I miss that surprise so much...

(Not based on a rigorous scientific survey. May not be accurate.)

Pic related:

https://imgs.search.brave.com/_-PBhLuSzgNHIjPEvJqWdDdQHIE6d3...

How many moose do you think get shot during hunting season in Sweden?

It is about 100k.

Neat little visualization https://www.svt.se/special/algjakten-i-siffror/

And we do see nature and the moose!