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[coalescent]

All I want for Christmas is BBC4. Sigh.

Meanwhile, Nick brings us the fundamental difference between SF and fantasy. Let's face it, we all knew this already, didn't we? ;-)

Where I work is a converted old building with extra bits bolted on the side. The seating arrangement isn't exactly open-plan, and due to holidays and reshuffles, for the next two weeks I'm in a room on my own. It's like having my own office. I could get used to this!

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[fba.livejournal.com]

You shall go to the ball:

http://www.freeview.co.uk/cgi-bin/postcode/postcodesearch?postcode=SL6+4ET
http://www.richersounds.co.uk/index.php?f=itemdetl.php&p=301751

£60 for a load of new channels and no subscription sounds good to me......

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Unfortunately, it sounds like £60 to me. :-/

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Does it work with Telewest's set top box as well?

Telewest...

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

Don't give you a set top box, you get a cable decoder box and the channels come free through the cable. It's 3.50 a month for just digital (plus you have to have their phone, too, IIRC).

I'm looking forward to Christmas with BBC4. I was listening to "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" on BBC Radio 7 last night and reflecting on what a good buy cable was.

[ajp.livejournal.com]

BBC4 is very good - but I'm afraid that they are still too focused toward the arts - and not enough toward the sciences. There are exceptions - but much of their output is arts programming.

There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but in combination of the valid criticism that BBC1 & 2 have "dumbed down" (I hate that expression) means that science programming has never been so fragile on the BBC. Science, it would seem, falls between the twin stools of the recently more populist BBC2, and the arts based BBC4. :-(

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me. Toby Young sounds awful familiar - who he?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

He wrote How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, IIRC.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Oh yeh! I loved that.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

The problem with BBC4 is it's TV and I need reminding to go watch things. I need a Tivo-like thing in addition to my freeview box clearly.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

If you want something to remind you to watch things, and don't want to buy a Tivo, consider

www.digiguide.com

instead, for £7 a year.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Not available for my OS unfortunately.

[gagravarr.livejournal.com]

Freeview boxes are your friend

Just ask a parental unit for one for Christmas. They start at about 60 quid.

BBC 4 is great. Annoyingly, most of their good programs of late have been on at times I can't watch, so I think I may be in need of a DVR to go with the freeview box.

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

The Guardian prereviewed the second episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with "Not difficult" so they should not be too surprised that not too many people watched it.

I'd watch it more if it was on Freeview channel 9 not 10: too many buttons involved.