XPost: uk.media.tv.misc   
   From: ajmoss@macpaint.fsworld.co.uk.invalid   
      
   The schedulers have really fucked us over on this one. At 9pm this   
   Wednesday there are no fewer than four unmissable programmes on   
   terrestrial TV:   
      
   BBC1: The Human Mind   
   BBC2: When Michael Portillo became a single mum   
         (think Wife Swap with a guaranteed wanker)   
   ITV1: The premiere of the film, Coyote Ugly   
   C4  : Teachers   
      
   Channel 4 have moved Teachers to 9pm to make space for the utterly   
   pointless and forgettable Teen Big Brother.   
      
   I lied in my post last week - I don't have three VCRs; I actually   
   have three Athlon XP computers with TV capture cards - basically TiVo   
   substitutes with removable hard disks and CD writers.   
      
   I will be recording BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4, and as a public service   
   I will make video-CDs of the programmes available to anyone who wants   
   them.   
      
   The VCDs are rev. 2.0 compliant - you can play them in a compatible   
   DVD player, or open the large file avseq01.dat in Windows Media Player   
   (it's a standard MPEG-1). I capture video clips at a high bit rate and   
   use TMPGEnc Plus to convert them to VCD format, so the quality is   
   roughly equal to a VHS videotape in SP.   
      
   If you want a copy of one or more of these programmes, e-mail me at   
   ajmoss@macpaint.fsworld.co.uk.invalid (remove the .invalid), giving   
   your home address and which VCDs you want. If you want Coyote Ugly,   
   record it yourself, buy the DVD or wait till Christmas.   
      
   Depending on the number of people who ask for copies, I might set up   
   a CD train: you receive the CD, watch or copy it, and then send it on   
   to the next person in the train. If you don't want to be part of a CD   
   train, I can make you VCDs to keep for 50p per CD.   
      
   By the way, I'm still looking for a high quality copy of last week's   
   Teachers that doesn't suffer from the E4 DOG.   
   --   
   "I know what I like, and that's white, white, white!"   
                             -- small boy, Hovis advert   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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