http://www.planetbods.org/blog/build/images/me.jpg 2008-07-13T13:19:54Z Watch me on the Tee-vee. Oh yeee. tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog/Television/2 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, Andrew Bowden 2008-07-13T13:19:54Z 2008-07-13T12:06:25Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.954

Anyone following my microblog updates yesterday may have noticed a certain anger with the trauma centre that is iTunes. I've never been a huge fan of iTunes (bloated, slow, klunky), but after yesterday I now hate, loathe and despise it.

Andrew Bowden 2007-11-30T15:46:04Z 2007-11-30T19:36:00Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.737

I suspect that when the Freesat launched the other day, it was the first time that anyone had seen, publicly, the Freesat logo. And a few eagle eyed people might have noticed that Freesat originally had a completely different logo, which appeared at a press launch some time ago.

Andrew Bowden 2007-11-27T17:16:25Z 2007-11-27T17:10:11Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.734

Well the secret is out. Well right now as I type, it's not hugely out because the website hasn't been out for very long. But anyway, the Freesat website is now live, so you can find out all about it, and why you'd want it. Or not want it. Or something.

Andrew Bowden 2007-11-14T14:41:30Z 2007-11-14T14:10:14Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.725

In the early hours of Wednesday 14 November, an entire town lost something no one else has lost. Teletext and Ceefax.

Andrew Bowden 2007-08-07T18:24:14Z 2007-08-07T17:54:08Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.679

What happened to the days when things lasted? I'm sure they existed. I remember owning a TV for about 12 years - and it got transported around the country a few times to boot... Sadly it doesn't seem to happen very often any more. Just two months short of being five years old, and my TV has decided to give up the ghost.

Andrew Bowden 2007-05-13T17:38:19Z 2007-05-13T07:28:57Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.687

Have to confess that I didn't watch Eurovision - Catherine and myself were being more cultured and seeing the fantastic Waterson Family live at the Royal Albert Hall - but I came home to find we'd not only lost Eurovision, but we'd spectacularly come in joint second-to-last.

Andrew Bowden 2007-03-18T10:36:15Z 2007-03-18T10:23:22Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.669

I didn't watch Making Your Mind up last night but caught a bit of the rather shambolic results programme (spectacularly they announced one person to be the winner, only to five seconds later decide they got it wrong).

Andrew Bowden 2007-03-04T08:46:55Z 2007-03-04T08:05:35Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.667

A couple of weeks ago, I invested in a PVR - one of those digital video recorder things. It had been bubbling in my mind for a while, especially as I seemed to have a never ending pile of VHS tapes floating around the room with stuff on them, that had to be watched in strict order lest anything get missed.

Andrew Bowden 2007-01-10T20:42:51Z 2007-01-10T20:38:37Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.648

I'm sure half the blogosphere is busy drooling over the iPhone right now, but I was more interested in hearing about the Apple TV. Well I was interested until I actually took my eyes away from a very average looking grey box, and looked at the detail instead.

Andrew Bowden 2007-01-11T22:10:19Z 2006-10-28T13:49:14Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.638

Well the news is out - BBC Parliament on DTT/Freeview will be going full screen in November, rather than the horrible quarter screen format that it goes out in now.

Andrew Bowden 2006-10-19T20:38:08Z 2006-10-19T20:27:47Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.635

As a Lost adict, the news that Sky have poached the programme from Channel 4 so that they can put it on Sky One, is not one I especially wish to hear. Especially as I don't have pay-TV.

Andrew Bowden 2006-07-01T19:28:30Z 2006-07-01T19:27:25Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.610

Cybermen AND Daleks? ARGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrew Bowden 2006-03-18T16:43:26Z 2006-03-18T16:17:30Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.582

People might understand a Freeview set top box, but how about a PVR? A TiVo? A Media Center PC? Howabout how a simple games console has become a media centre in the home? And so on. Which is why Auntie runs sessions about such things, and that's where I found myself yesterday afternoon. Not learning about it all - but helping to explain such things to other people.

Andrew Bowden 2006-01-26T09:38:44Z 2006-01-26T09:34:33Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.571

So I'm flicking through the North West Tonight website (don't ask) and I come across an interesting link. Yes, it's the North West Tonight sofa tour! Gordon Burns and Dianne Oxbury go out, sit on a sofa in the Trafford Centre, and have their pictures taken by as many people as they can possibly persuade. Fantastic!

Andrew Bowden 2006-01-16T21:54:27Z 2006-01-16T21:24:02Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.171

Reading through the BBC's Reception Advice help pages can be a bit depressing sometimes - all the problems that users have just recieving services. OnDigital boxes crashing, video and audio being out of sync, channel numbers not working properly... And that's not the half of it.

Andrew Bowden 2005-10-24T21:26:11Z 2005-10-06T21:24:33Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.501

I know, I know. You're all desperate to know what the state of play is on my satellite signal. I can tell this because of the flood of emails that have been bombarding my email address ever since I first mentioned the problems.

Andrew Bowden 2005-10-24T21:26:11Z 2005-10-04T20:41:46Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.499

The Guardian's Emily Bell seems to suggest that that the iMP is the bold new world for the BBC, and that the BBC backed service could be opened up to 'host' services from Channel 4 and ITV. The suggestion is a sort of TV programme version of Google News - do a search and find legal-to-download programmes.

Andrew Bowden 2005-10-24T21:26:11Z 2005-09-25T20:31:13Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.496

Should you be wondering - unlikely I know - but no, I still don't have satellite television.

Andrew Bowden 2005-11-06T21:13:07Z 2005-09-20T19:24:15Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.493

The trauma of Sunday where I spent far too long nudging my satellite dish is still in my mind, especially when various Googling and discussions at work did suggest it might be a problem with the LNB (that's the prong that sticks out of the dish) but before I started buying new satellite bits, or calling up people to check things, I thought it would be worth just checking the box on someone else's satellite dish.

Andrew Bowden 2005-10-24T21:26:10Z 2005-09-18T19:32:38Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.492

When we moved into this house, I was rather delighted to find a satellite dish on the side. After some time I got a cheap second hand set top box for it, then a remote. Before going on holiday, I finally got a viewing card too.

Andrew Bowden