Five gave up on most of their teletext services a few years ago. At least, my reception of it is too poor to recieve anything other than random ASCII screen parties, so thats what I'm assuming.
Having looked at the top ranking content in the query counter, I am willing to hazard that it has been subjected to a compaign of repetative queries from a group of tourettes syndrome sufferers. Or possibly just bored students. Or both.
If you have a TV and you're the true law abiding citizen that every slashdotter is, you need a TV license ( £100ish p/year) in the UK, even if you just watch videos on it.
Oh, and you're not allowed to shoot people if they break into your house. Apparently.
I'm pretty sure I saw Toy Story 2 in digital at the Warner Brothers cinema in the H20 centre near Finchley Road tube in London. Aside from that the Odeon in Leceister square has digital projection and theres probably a few more. Outside of london i suspect it gets pretty sparse as the capital usally hogs this sort of stuff to itself.
liked the radio broadcasts (kazaa rules!) and turned the BBC crap off after about 1 and 1/2 hours.
Both Radio and TV Series are BBC produced.
The special effects are worse than cheesy, the acting wasn't, the costumes were rotten and they seemed to change stuff simply for the sake of changing it.
Any person raised on a diet of BBC's Doctor Who throughout the late 70 - 80s automatically suspended their disbelief of special effects/costume standards in return for an amused acceptance coupled with enjoyment.
As for 'changing stuff', Douglas Adams did this plenty of times in the transistion from Radio to Books to Television. The early books are far closer to the TV than the radio in many parts.
I think there were about 4 different version of the 1985 effort (original, directors, tv etc.), one of which, special weighed in around the 4 hour mark. Still couldn't cover a story that rich though.
Anybody aware if Sci Fi channel has taken any options on filming Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Dune prequel trilogy?
Having read the first two, although markedly inferior to Frank Herbert's original works, they do strike me as much easier to translate into film than the rest of the original series. Plenty of moments where you can say 'So _that's_ why x hates y! and went on to give birth to z'
As opposed to the entirely plausible story lines of almost every video game throughout the history of gaming...;)
ie:
Castle Wolfenstein
One bloke fights the good fight against a bunch of Nazi's holed up in their own holiday castle (so far only mildly implausible) only to discover that they've started experimenting with the undead. Ummmm.... yeah that sounds reasonable.
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Five gave up on most of their teletext services a few years ago. At least, my reception of it is too poor to recieve anything other than random ASCII screen parties, so thats what I'm assuming.
Having looked at the top ranking content in the query counter, I am willing to hazard that it has been subjected to a compaign of repetative queries from a group of tourettes syndrome sufferers. Or possibly just bored students. Or both.
Go stick your head in a pig!
If you have a TV and you're the true law abiding citizen that every slashdotter is, you need a TV license ( £100ish p/year) in the UK, even if you just watch videos on it.
Oh, and you're not allowed to shoot people if they break into your house. Apparently.
I'm pretty sure I saw Toy Story 2 in digital at the Warner Brothers cinema in the H20 centre near Finchley Road tube in London. Aside from that the Odeon in Leceister square has digital projection and theres probably a few more. Outside of london i suspect it gets pretty sparse as the capital usally hogs this sort of stuff to itself.
How long before we see the blip verts (a la Max Headroom) make their network debut?
Is the DVD placed in a same place as the fish? Not sure the human form could deal with this...
liked the radio broadcasts (kazaa rules!) and turned the BBC crap off after about 1 and 1/2 hours.
Both Radio and TV Series are BBC produced.
The special effects are worse than cheesy, the acting wasn't, the costumes were rotten and they seemed to change stuff simply for the sake of changing it.
Any person raised on a diet of BBC's Doctor Who throughout the late 70 - 80s automatically suspended their disbelief of special effects/costume standards in return for an amused acceptance coupled with enjoyment.
As for 'changing stuff', Douglas Adams did this plenty of times in the transistion from Radio to Books to Television. The early books are far closer to the TV than the radio in many parts.
Pointless research - the human species will have all transcended their current forms to become 4 dimensional toasters with great hair.
I think there were about 4 different version of the 1985 effort (original, directors, tv etc.), one of which, special weighed in around the 4 hour mark. Still couldn't cover a story that rich though.
Anybody aware if Sci Fi channel has taken any options on filming Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Dune prequel trilogy?
Having read the first two, although markedly inferior to Frank Herbert's original works, they do strike me as much easier to translate into film than the rest of the original series. Plenty of moments where you can say 'So _that's_ why x hates y! and went on to give birth to z'
As opposed to the entirely plausible story lines of almost every video game throughout the history of gaming... ;)
ie:
Castle Wolfenstein
One bloke fights the good fight against a bunch of Nazi's holed up in their own holiday castle (so far only mildly implausible) only to discover that they've started experimenting with the undead. Ummmm.... yeah that sounds reasonable.
Frank Herbert's Dune (published 1965) featured the still suits of the fremen.