test please delete

[FiveTimes]

Who wants a fight?

not me

[voodooflux]

assuming you have "bought" the internet channel

Hold on, I don't like the sound of that. I have to "buy" something...?

[zeitghost]

Oh FFS, you people don't know you're born

When I was a lad it was monochrome 405 Line PAL over VHF and if you missed it you never even had the chance to be choosy over how you might next indulge yourself - IT WAS GONE FOR EVER!

We didn't even have repeats in those days... people used to complain about repeats in the Seventies and Eighties, but back in the Sixties there weren't any to speak of, because the programme had already happened, and couldn't happen again.

Nowadays we buy repeats, and the machines that play them. And yet it seems we're still not happy with what we've got.

Whinge, whinge whinge - "Oh No, I can only watch it if it goes through a DVI interface"

For goodness sake, it's moving pictures... with sound and colour!

What more do you want?

I'm sure Zeity will back me up on this one... mutter, grumble, mutter...

<cough> If it's 405 in monochrome, it ain't got any PAL at all...

Apparently in a fit of insanity in the late 50s, the Beeb were considering 405 in NTSC...

I remember visiting the Radio Show in Olympia & seeing a demo of Colour TV.

That would have been around 1960 or so.

And the first consumer type video recorder was the Philips N1500 in 1972.

£400+. A brand new Mini was about £600 at the time... The tapes were about £15 each (an hour recording time)...

[zeitghost]

Seems to work for Zeity and his 8088s

Z80s...

[FiveTimes]

Hold on, I don't like the sound of that. I have to "buy" something...?

yup... it costs 500 wii points (£3.50).

You can buy wii points, but the smallest is 1000 points (£7.50).

I don't know what to do with my remaining £3.50

[voodooflux]

yup... it costs 500 wii points (£3.50).

You can buy wii points, but the smallest is 1000 points (£7.50).

Aha, I getcha - bit like the XBox Live points system.

I don't know what to do with my remaining £3.50

Can you donate them to worthy causes?

[zeitghost]

Seminal stuff...

http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1975.htm

Who'd have thought we'd get here from there?

[cailin maith]

Morning boys

[voodooflux]

Morning boys

Hey CM

I was just reading about you and the dog building Lego trucks together. Was it something akin to the "pottery" scene in Ghost, but more geeky

[cailin maith]

Hey CM

I was just reading about you and the dog building Lego trucks together. Was it something akin to the "pottery" scene in Ghost, but more geeky

Hey VF

Way more geeky!