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BBC1+400000
reconstructed telly from approximately 45 years ago | |
Allegedly (haven't got a TV) there's a lot of nostalgia television and also
Plus One channels which show programmes time-shifted by an hour.
These two ideas could be combined to form an entire channel, BBC1
being an example, shifted by 400 000 hours, that is, forty-odd years. It
shows the channel
as closely as possible to how it would've been 400
000 hours previously, partly by using archive footage and partly by
reenactment. It's also broadcast in analogue in black and white in 405-
line format and can only be received on that kind of equipment,
manufactured anew. On buying such a TV set, you pay for an exact
facsimile licence at the price they would've cost at the time and
similarly a facsimile of the Radio Times of the appropriate week is
available. Come to think of it, BBC2 would be missing. Anyway, it goes
off the air permanently at the mid-'80s point when 405-line television
went off-air, which would be in about 2030.
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Wasn't BBC1+4000000 a movie with Raquel Welch? No,
that was 1,000,000 BC. Sorry. [+] Good idea. Not
just BBC though as I'd like to see North American TV
from 40 years ago replete with the commercials of
the time. |
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God no! Not more repeats! |
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But repeats of the news, [DrBob], among other
things. People used to complain about the repeats
more. I often wonder why they don't so much
nowadays. It worries me a bit in fact. |
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The people who used to complain about the repeats in the past, nowadays don't watch TV at all, they spend all their time on the internet visiting the same few websites. |
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Yes, sort of - but there is very little nostalgia for
405-line analogue televisions. Broadcast it for
regular TVs and you may have a bun. |
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Not a bad idea...one bun (in black and white, with plummy tones) |
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Wouldn't that be BBC1-400000? Plus would be 40 years into the future. Come to think of that, I could do with some sports statistics and lottery numbers... |
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I like this: memory lane is good for dementia
patients. Picture the scene, you wake up in a cot,
remebering nothing, in a 1940s style house, Churchill’s
voice coming from wireless followed by ‘the light
programme’. You wet yourself laughing, but find you’re
luckily wearing a nappy. Makes perfect sense, you’re 2
after all. For some reasons the cot is eight foot long, but
you ignore that. Then you flick the remote and watch
“hangmen also die” on BBC 1+ 400000 on the inch flat
screen. Happy days.. |
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I can remember when nostalgia was better. |
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<smiles knowingly at nurse who is tucking tartan blanket around [MB]'s legs prior to helping him drink his cocoa/> |
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//I can remember when nostalgia was better.// |
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I miss the days when it was worse. |
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//they spend all their time on the internet visiting the same few websites.// |
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That's not like watching the same shows, it's like using the same television. No, it's like enjoying new episodes of the same show. |
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