"And.. they,(the Nazis), run gone shows now do they?" Eddie, "oh, you tell ME!" I giggled right thru this. I'd love an Suzy/Eddie and Ross Noble team against Ian. Two surrealists, lovers of tangents to branch out in... I giggled. Haven't laughed out loud for some time.
With the naming cd video for laserdisc content, they made to confusion about disco vision, laser vision and laser disc even worse. But great presentation, thanks for sharing.
I remember watching this thirty years ago. I thought it was amazing. Funnily enough, part two is kicked off by Douglas Adams. He asks the question of what might happen in thirty years time and what we can't see coming. Well, now we know I guess...
Actually, your timeline is a bit off. In terms of optical discs, Laserdisc (then sold under the name Disco-Vision - not kidding), an analogue format based on composite video and FM audio, was launched on December 11, 1978. It was later, in 1980, when Pioneer purchased the majority stake in the format, renamed LaserVision (format name) and LaserDisc (brand name). In 1982, the digital audio-only format Compact Disc (CD) came to be, developed by Sony and Philips. It applied may of the same principles as LaserDisc. The digital PCM audio format used for CD later was later incorporated into the LaserDisc format. In PAL territory, where the LaserDisc format was struggling, a new stab at relaunching the format was attempted. This time Philips tried to relaunch the format circa 1986 by renaming the format CD Video (not to be confused with the later fully digital MPEG1-coded VideoCD). The strategy was to sell CD-sized discs, containing 4 audio tracks and a single music video , hoping to lure in new young users, while also selling 12" discs containing music videos and/or concerts. Other than the addition of digital audio and the discs being gold colored, it was still the same LaserDisc format. The relaunch failed. However, as the 90s arrived and film enthusiasts were discovering the format, that offered both picture and audio quality near broadcast quality and a load of extra material and prices were getting somewhat affordable, the Laserdisc format was starting to QUITE slowly seep into the mainstream. Philips DID try to lauch a digital format known as VideoCD around 1991-1992 to rival both VHS and LaserDisc, but with quality being somewhat on par with VHS and you still had to change disc halfway through the movie, consumers didn't go for it, despite a rather large marketing campaign. It quickly faded into obscurity. Fast forward to 1996. DVD had been introduced the world in Japan that year. Thanks to the newly developed MPEG2 codec and improvements to the laser, now able to read even smaller pits on the disc and even able to work in layers, it was now possible to contain a full movie as well as bonus material on one side... and even offer several languages in both spoken and written form. Just some 4 to 5 years later, the format was so popular, that LaserDisc sales meanwhile had dropped rapidly. The final movie on LaserDisc came out in 2001 DVD got the success, that LaserDisc/CD Video/VideoCD never got. And is has managed to stay with us up until present time.
Surprisingly no comments about the apple vision pro. Interestingly, the vr headsets and concepts they have one this episode don't seem to far off from what we have. Pretty fascinating. Most likely what we have today is based off early tech and designs like this I would imagine. Of course the ui, presentation, and maybe the fact that hey had cameras to use as pass through technology to see in front of you is probably a lot different than they imagined back then.
Frankie Howerd was a great performer with his own individual style. This was shown perfectly in the original 'Up Pompeii' series from the 1969/70 era. There episodes were outstanding because of Frankie, the directors close-ups, and the excellent writing of Tolbot Rothwell. This follow-up is a poor imitation of the original. Only a few embers remain.
What an awesome video. Wish there was more stuff like this that aimed to show us what made these ancient authors feel so vital for throughout the centuries.
That glasses-free 3D TV works on a similar principle to the 3DS right? Albeit that came out 20 years later. I think there was a smartphone that worked on similar lines too but nobody ever sold a consumer TV that worked the same way, perhaps because the need to sit still in one position for it to work was more suited to handheld devices.
There were some tvs that did it actually. I saw them at the NAB show in 2015, but I'm not sure if they were released or not. Perhaps it wasn't something most people wanted, but it was pretty neat.
Yeah maybe this guy was not as great as people think he is. I cannot support the Contras as I have a visceral hatred of insurgencies but I would have supported an American invasion. Restore democratic rule under United Nations auspices like in Granada. Oh what should have been.
1993 was the year Rory Bremner started properly at Channel 4 and where he would remain for another 17 years. So it was a good choice for Channel 4 to get him to deliver their alternative Christmas message. One year later, this was banished to the Channel 4 archives for obvious reasons.
A billion calculations per second is equivalent to 1 gigaflop (GFLOPS). The term FLOPS stands for Floating Point Operations Per Second and is a measure of computer performance, The Apple M2 chip, found in the late 2022 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13, offers a peak performance of 3.6 TFLOPs. The Apple M3 chip, which is used in some of Apple’s laptops, has a peak performance of 4.1 TFLOPs, There’s also an Apple M3 Max chip, which has a higher peak performance of 16.4 TFLOPs2. This chip is used in more powerful devices and can perform 16.4 trillion floating-point operations per second.
I’ve been looking for this for decades! It really influenced my intellectual pursuits. I was a teenager when it was on and I went out and bought the book, which opened up a world of literature I would never have found in my family or school. My parents were horrified. 🤣 They should have tried Chaucer, it would have set their eyebrows on fire.
He had heart problems during the last 2 years of his life, but this was made even worse when at Christmas 1991 on a holiday in the Amazon he contracted a virus, which really did more damage to his heart.
I had a CDV compatible player, but there was very little CDV single software released in Japan, so I only had two titles that I liked. de gozaru!! CDVプレイヤーは持っていても日本でCDVシングルタイトルは少なくて、お気に入りの２枚しかもってなかったでござる
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I think that the appalling state of ITV wholly lies with the arrogance of those ITV chief execs of the late 80’s and 90’s. They just sat back and thought everybody will stay loyal to ITV and rewarded themselves handsomely especially at LWT. Surely they must have realised the game was up when Murdoch got the football rights in 1992. Everyone was sick of ITV by the end of the 90s and then arrived Sky Digital. And now the once great ITV is the equivalent of MTV. Nobody gives a damn about it anymore
I have no professional insight in this in this and was at secondary school when it broadcast - just a passing interest, but the notable absence of independent outside production companies stuck out to me here. I seem to remember Hat Trick certainly existed by this point and maybe that side of the market was just assumed to be outsiders for C4 and BBC2 and would have no further reach than that. Also zero mention of Sky. Sky One's contemporary output of the time was awful but obviously Murdoch knew this so fought with footy, films and rolling news. But obviously even though his game plan was public knowledge back then, there was an assumption it would flounder. Underestimation of opponents or changing tastes bites everyone in the backside sooner or later. Very interesting... For those anorak wearers among us!
A PS5 is roughly equivalent to 10,000 CM2 supercomputers. Yikes! I recall watching this episode. Such a statistic would have melted my brain back then.
Isnt it crazy im 31 and not once was this mentioned in any history class from elementary to basic college classes(im sure at uni or further degrees in workd afffairs thered be a talk sbout it) but it went like this tx history, american history colonial wise,then slowly transfered to civil war then to modern gwat thats about it,its almost like they brush over wars thst were really for more nafarious things
Spanish English french Portugal what would the world be like if they never boarded their wooden ships and spread their religious ideas all over the word
Dear lord. The USA has shown itself to be the biggest pack of liars since. Look at the middle east... destroyed countries all over the place. But, kind of cool to see that the propaganda is the same as it ever was lol! Sandino lives on however as the truth is the truth.
