Not such a pretty picture - RTS Journal vol 44/2 You'd think the headlong rush to acquire large flat-screen TVs - that cost more to run, have a larger carbon footprint, and give a poorer picture than the CRT-based sets...
Posts from February 2007
Flat-screen chaos
Monopoly abuse
Virgin-Sky talks break down Definitive and unbiased information relating to what exactly took place between BSkyB and Virgin Media during recent and very tense negogiations relating to the Sky channels may never be disclosed, but in recent months Sky's public...
We Say, You Pay
Daily Mail: Richard and Judy quiz scam If any of this Daily Mail 'exclusive' story has any basis in fact, then Channel 4 could find itself embroiled in another major and potentially very damaging scandal relating to the content of...
Have Sky Finally Lost It, Big Time?
I confess I'm still trying to work out why on earth Sky are pulling three channels out of the Freeview offering, so it can attempt to flog a brand new set top box to people just so they can get...
Something old, something new
After all of the promotional activity over the last few days, the new series of Life On Mars started on BBC One tonight at 9pm...with something old, namely a recreated widescreen BBC 1 COLOUR globe instead of a standard...
Look behind you
Prehistoric monsters making lots of noise, loud bangs, creepy forests, lots of running about the place. Yes you guessed it, it's the time-travelling dinosaur romp Primeval which made its debut on ITV1 tonight. It's true that the characters were...
Diamonds should have been forever...
What seems like an age ago, I designed some Flash files for the BBCi Cult website. However, I was reminded of them the other day when I noticed that the 1972-1974 BBC 1 COLOUR strapline from one of them was...
Press freedom
Joy at direct hit turns to horror Until The Sun published the DVD at the centre of the inquest into the death of Corporal Matty Hull, the Pentagon was still refusing to give permission for it to be shown. Now...
Psychological warfare, Part 2
BSkyB to launch DTT pay-TV Today saw the big launch of Virgin Media, which is essentially most of what NTL-Telewest used to offer combined with the Virgin Mobile service plus a few new bells and whistles tacked on for good...
Unbiased doesn't mean equal time
Jeremy Paxman's recent article in the BBC house magazine Ariel, republished (presumably) here, seems to have stirred up a lot of fuss for all the wrong reasons. Well yes, of course, Paxman is entirely right to bemoan the fact that...
Deja vu time
Trailer for ITV's Primeval (requires Windows Media/Flip4Mac) They often say never judge a book by its cover, but this trailer for ITV's forthcoming sci-fi drama Primeval suggests that it's probably as close to a cheap Doctor Who/Torchwood knock-off as they...
