iPlayer
Oct0
I know i’m in the minority, but I don’t really ‘get’ the BBC’s iPlayer. It’s not that I don’t use it – I do but I don’t use it very regularly. In fact what I really use it for most is when I hear of a band I like were doing a session on Zane Lowe, so I listen back to it.
For TV, pretty much everything I want to watch gets recorded by my BT Vision box and if I miss it I usually just search for a repeat and watch that.
I can’t imagine a world where someone doesn’t have a DVR but is prepared to leap a few technology steps ahead of just a TV and watch the iPlayer to see what they’ve missed.
Where is the iPlayer project heading? Really I would like to see things like the BBC’s catch up service along with the other channels all work with eachother and could then replace the recorder parts in your set-top box. What’s the point of everyone having 160GB or whatever hooked up to their TV when the BBC will stream it to you for free anyways? To catch it in case of rights issue’s and them not being able to stream it to you?
I just find it a bit odd that we have these competing methods and nobody’s unified them yet (nor is likely to be allowed to either).
The BT Vision box does On Demand stuff very well all coming from BT’s servers and it does have catch-up content from the channels but strangely you have to pay for it.
Someone at some point will merge Plex or similar to have an iPlayer that will work for all the channels including Sky’s, that’s the holy grail here isn’t it?
Red Dwarf
May1
Forgot to mention, finally got round to watching the Red Dwarf special over the weekend too.
Verdict? Meh, but then always only thought Red Dwarf was so so anyways (bring on the scorn).
TV Weekend
Mar0
Had a bit of a TV weekend again this past one. I think it’s one of our favourite things to do and while I do get a bit fidgety sometimes I do enjoy doing it.
- 30 Rock – a bit silly but sometimes funny. I want to carry on watching them.
- Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip – far superior to 30 Rock, cannot believe there’s only one series.
- Lost World of Communism – have felt really enlightened by this 3 part series. It has enlightened me somewhat. I am still a bit in shock that during my lifetime this was happening and ended and I was only dimly aware of it in my childhood. Such a change happened and I would love to see more documentaries about the subject. It did fascinated me.
- Tron – part of our 80s double bill
- Pretty in Pink – part 2 of 80s double bill
- Taken – Liam Neeson. As much as I don’t like him – not a bad action film
- The West Wing (we watch at least one episode before bed every night, it’s perfect and by the time you get to the end of the seventh season you’ve forgotten enough of the first to go back and watch it all over again)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Because it’s on, in this one Gul DuCat was a Bajoran!
- Austin Healey’s ‘Big’ Tackle – really enjoying this series…