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Weekend viewing: Johnny English Reborn
Johnny English, the character, has certainly come a long way since his days as a Barclaycard TV advert. His first film outing did reasonably well (and indeed I chortled along watching it many years...
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Late evening viewing: Harold and Maude
There be SPOILERS ahead, matey!I first became aware of H&M through Jane Goldman’s Twitter stream sometime last year. I subsequently rented the film through LOVEFiLM on DVD and was astonished at...
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VoD services versus my boss..
Very interesting Twitter conversation last with my boss regarding the practicality of various UK video-on-demand services. Blinkbox was giving her tremendous grief, Film4 wasn’t allowing her to use...
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VoD woes: iPlayer’s Air doesn’t download and 4oD does great impression of...
Was not having a great time last night with various VoD-on-the-desktop services.iTunes wouldn’t let me access the main Film page (kept complaining that it wasn’t available to the UK) to check on what...
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Netflix UK now offers you a choice between two women..
One in red, the other in black.Yes, Gene Wilder’s The Woman in Red is available along with the sequel (I’m just kidding), James Watkin’s The Woman in Black, screenplay by Jane Goldman (a woman with red...
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Weekend viewing: Jackass 2 and Jackass 3(D) – Netflix UK
Don’t ask me why I decided to start watching these films, I just did. Both films are full of puerile, juvenile nonsense featuring men old enough to know better hitting or hurting each other in a...
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Happy Birthday Netflix UK!
What a year it’s been for video on demand services! It all kicked off on January 9th 2012 when Netflix brought their streaming service to the UK. Powered by Silverlight, yet accessible without any...
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Use Memset’s Memstore to stream video..
Everybody loves YouTube and Vimeo, but there will always be occasions when you want complete and total control over how you offer video to your viewers. Memstore from Memset (disclaimer: I work for...
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Virgin Media’s Premiere Collection: The First Week Review
Also see: [ Virgin Media Premiere Collection: A Month On and the tag, Virgin Media ]Oh dear. And things were going SO well.Wireless / BroadbandThe first problem appears to be with the Super Hub. Twice...
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A modest proposal for VoD services: RSS feeds of your content
Hey all you web-based VoD services: Netflix UK, iPlayer, 4oD, Five on Demand, ITV Player, Blinkbox, LOVEFiLM, iTunes, Now TV, etc. – I have a proposal for you!It is extraordinarily difficult right now...
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While Virgin Media’s Tivo & On Demand continues to suffer, Netflix keeps on...
(Shakes fist) The blasted Tivo started playing up last night – I was watching a recording of Come Dine With Me when playback stopped and I could not watch live TV or watch any recorded shows. I had to...
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Want Game of Thrones season 3? Don’t have Sky Atlantic? Blinkbox will have...
UPDATE!: Game of Thrones series 3 is coming to Blinkbox on the 15th July. Like most of you, I find the exclusivity between HBO and BSkyB to be an enormous pain in the arse. For those of us that DON’T...
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The VoD / “Smart TV” dilemma: How best to watch blinkbox/LOVEFiLM/Netflix...
Further to my previous posts regarding blinkbox, and having for a long time been very wary of any “smart tv” devices due to market fragmentation (i.e. device manufacturers having different views as to...
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Virgin Not On Demand (again)
I like to check the status page on my Virgin Media Premiere Collection every so often to see what mess is happening at any given time in my local area.Quelle surprise!More faults on the On Demand...
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Weekend Viewing: Zero Dark Thirty (LOVEFiLM BD), Argo (NOW TV PS3), Rush...
There’s been a bit of a theme running throughout this weekend’s viewing sessions (well, at least two of the films – I had planned on starting Homeland season one, but am saving that for later this...
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Sky Atlantic available to all via NOW TV; blinkbox launch dedicated PS3 app
The VoD marketplace just got a heck of a lot more interesting.NOW TV have launched their Entertainment package for £4.99/month (applicable to the first 60,000 subscribers) which gives you on-demand and...
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NOW TV Box – a cheap way of getting Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic, but with...
As I’m about to put my Apple TV and LG BP630 Blu-Ray on eBay having replaced them with the PS3, I decided to fork out £9.99 on Sky’s NOW TV Box. While I’m perfectly happy – beyond, even – with the PS3,...
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The Secret Service
Looks like Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar’s The Secret Service (just look at that cast list – just look!) is shooting mere yards away from where I work. Update (1st...
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Remember, remember, the 1st of Movember
Update: I failed. Absent-mindedly shaved it off a few days ago. Bah. Next year? Luckily nobody pledged at the time.Oh dear. So I’m actually going to do it.I’m going to grow a ‘tache for the month of...
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The dangers of easy-to-manage web hosting
Unfortunately I got into a bit of an argument with somebody today about the management of their cPanel server. As a sysadmin of over 17 years – starting my career by setting up an ISP from scratch...
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