Date   : Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:10:51
From   : rs423@... (Mick)
Subject: [BeebSoc] Auntie, dear Auntie

Rick Murray wrote:
> On 01/08/2011 14:11, Mick wrote:
>
>> So the original intention was not for public use? Captioning for what?
>> Do you mean subtitles?
>
> Captioning == Subtitles. ;-)
Thanks.



>
>> These days sponsorship is rife and it would more likely have been the
>> Lloyds Micro,
>
> Hahaha, don't you mean The FaceBook Micro?
No! Go back to a time when the internet was the fidonet (not literally)



>
>
>> Also, the BBC actively encouraged internet use. Remember beeb.net?
>
> I remember a lot of failed attempts at the same thing - WHSmith did one
Yes. Later on.


> , ITV did one (still does, www.bushinternet.com is ITV stuff),
Is that AyeTeeVee? Haven't you got a gadget that only connects to 
BushInternet?


> Tesco did one... Around 1999, everybody and their uncle bought and 
> rebranded bits of Pipex.
What, Pipex that is now StalkStalk?



>
> I think that the Beeb's attempts were riding the increasing popularity 
> of the Internet allowing one to access the world for the price of a 
> London phone call.
Perhaps they did ride the wagon a bit. Certainly their helpline was an 
premium rate call.



>
>> Text dies (archives aside) on the 18th of April 2012 (Crystal Palace)
>> as far as I'm concerned.
>
> Yup, and if I was in the UK, I would make a little wooden coffin, put 
> my teletext decoder in it, and go and present it to the BBC on that day.
:-D
>
>
>
> Given this, there isn't really that much incentive to have a decent 
> text service any more, is there?
Think you've hit the nail on the head.



>
>> You could save sub pages with a beeb.
>
> My brief play with a cheese-wedge teletext receiver [*] was 
> astonishing. The system looked and felt a lot more responsive than I 
> was expecting, and I dare say it was actually niftier in use than the 
> RISC OS receiver boxes [#].
It was so easy to work with too. *SAVE filename 7C00 8000 7C00 7C00 and 
you had the page saved.



>
> No, it would have turned up later.
Maybe.


> Cinema offers stereo,
Off the side of the film at the time.


> VHS tapes offered stereo mid-80s. 
Very true. My top loading Ferguson (Baird) 8940 offers analogue stereo. 
I've still got a Ferguson 3V43 which offers analogue and Hifi stereo. 
(No NICAM decoder though). I never kept hold of the FV14T which was my 
first NICAM video recorder.  It went back to Radio Rentals.


> Hell, I even had a Sony Beta deck that recorded in stereo.
Does Sony mean suicide in any language? Everything they seem to invent, 
they kill.



>
>> Or a massive gas explosion that kills everyone in an instant.
>
> Wasn't that Brookside?
Dunno? Is that how it ended eh? Or did *Terry make the tea to the 
closing credits? Okay, if it's already been done how about legionnaires? 
Rabies?? Bombed by the Americans as they discovered a Tear Rist was in 
hiding there???

*Harry Enfield.
>
>
>> If the telly is on in the background and Emmerdale Farm comes on, I
>> may just leave it on depending on my grumpy rating that day, ditto
>> Coronation St. But... as soon as I hear the first drum beat of the
>> Deadenders theme sheer panic sets in. I rush around like a headless
>> chicken trying to find the remote
>
> I *tolerate* Emmerdale. But Corrie or Enders will have me 
> channel-hopping faster than a soft-focus sex scene [yawn!] in an '80s 
> movie.
:-D 





>
> WTF? There must be something monumentally wrong in your life (or 
> mind?) if you actually willingly give your time to watch a live feed 
> of some twat *sleeping*.
Perhaps perverts could get something out of it. "Cor, did she just 
scratch her raspberry ripples"????



>
>
>>> Anyway, if I had to cull a random BBC station, I might consider Radio
>>> 1 extra;
>> You'd be their only listener :-D Perhaps you should try radio 2.
>
> You might want to look up what the word "cull" means. ;-)
I really didn't read what you said quite right there did I. This 
lexdyxia is geeting worst... *Var vorst :-)

*Mantrid from Lexx 2.01



Mick.