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Old 21st Jul 2009, 7:44 pm   #61
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Hi to all,

a two and a half minute report is online on the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8159406.stm

This BBC video holds the second place on "Most watched video across all sections".

Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to Jeffrey from Germany for this excellent and stunning interview. The explanations and the demonstrations of the set inclusive the chassis and the CRT operating are gorgeous! I never before saw that a vintage television event found such a widespread echo in the news reports of the world!

P.S. Is somebody able to save this BBC video on PC?

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Old 21st Jul 2009, 8:28 pm   #62
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Congratulations Jeffrey, missed the report but was told by my aunty whenn I spoke to her tonight.
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Old 21st Jul 2009, 8:31 pm   #63
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well done jeffrey - as others have said, it's good that respecting and conserving old appliances is on the aganda, however briefly. I wonder what 'vintage' sets we'll be discussing in another few years' time?! we'll probably look in horror at all those current waste /tv recycling videos soon, just as others recall with shame breaking up BRC 2000s in the 80s!

I'm already rescuing/ keeping a few interesting designs from the 80s and 90s in my workshop 'in preparation'
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Old 22nd Jul 2009, 8:12 am   #64
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I guess you won't get 70 years of use out of that new Panasonic LCD Jeffrey....

I enjoyed your BBC online item, similarly couldn't work out how to get a 'downloaded' version on my computer. I seem to have missed all the little snippets on the various news channels over here, but well done.

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Old 22nd Jul 2009, 8:37 am   #65
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...couldn't work out how to get a 'downloaded' version on my computer.
I believe it's tricky. There are video screen capture progs but I haven't tried them. If it runs full screen and your graphics card has a video output you could record that. If anyone knows how to do it (and actually does it) I'll autograph a DVD copy for free
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Old 22nd Jul 2009, 8:42 am   #66
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...couldn't work out how to get a 'downloaded' version on my computer.
I believe it's tricky. There are video screen capture progs but I haven't tried them. If it runs full screen and your graphics card has a video output you could record that. If anyone knows how to do it (and actually does it) I'll autograph a DVD copy for free
Hi Jeffrey, if it is the 18 sec BBC item, I have recorded it.
Just send me an e-mail and I will return it to you. It is 1.3MB.

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I'm told there's going to be some radio coverage here shortly:

http://www.heartnorthants.co.uk/
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Old 22nd Jul 2009, 9:00 am   #68
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Heard the Heart broadcast about 5 minutes ago; just a short comedic piece. The word's certainly getting around though, isn't it?

Well done to Jeffrey for all his efforts.
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Old 22nd Jul 2009, 9:40 am   #69
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Jeffrey,
I am told that the Daily Mail had a small piece about it, with a photo of you.
I will be collecting a copy later (courtesy of Julie-who you met), so will then send it to you.
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I am told that the Daily Mail had a small piece about it...
Thanks. I already have that. Also last night's London Evening Standard.
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I've captured the 2 minute interview as a very compressed .avi file using http://camstudio.org/ but it occupies 32M and is somewhat jerky.

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Congratulations, Jeffrey
excellent and so much interest.

Best wishes, Darius
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I feel very grateful for all the support you've given me. Now you all know why I was posting various questions about my 702 a few weeks ago - it had to be working for the occasion and I wasn't allowed to say why at the time. A few of you knew and I'm very thankful that you kept quiet about it.

As happens with most news, interest dies down pretty quickly so I should be left in peace.
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Slightly related to this discussion. Who remembers NVCF 2006 with lots of 405 tellies.
http://www.bvws.org.uk/events/photos...sion/index.htm

My Marconi 706 is there, so is Steve Ostler's (Panrock) 702. Who brought the 901?
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So much for peace! Just had CBC on the phone. They will be interviewing me for a radio programme later today. It will be on at 1830 EST so if anyone in Canada, presumably Toronto area, is listening.....
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If you can't capture it, just look into your browser-cache. You will find it between the otherBBC-stuff, it will be the biggest file
Just drag it to the desktop and rename it to "film.flv" (or whatever). You will be able to whatch it using a decent player like VLC or MPlayer.
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If you can't capture it, just look into your browser-cache.
Tried both IE6 and Firefox3.5 and can't find it in the cache for either. Found a couple of massive files in the FF cache but they don't have extensions. Renaming them to FLV doesn't give anything usable. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

Feedback from Rory Cellan-Jones via the Digital UK PR people says: "..the BBC Online video had over 170,000 hits, which is huge even by BBC standards."
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Not sure if the BBC uses Flash, ie .flv. I did look in my cache (Opera) but it wasn't there, and would be long gone by now. I am quite used to getting Youtube videos that way, but it seems the Beeb ones are different.

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Slightly related to this discussion. Who remembers NVCF 2006 with lots of 405 tellies.
http://www.bvws.org.uk/events/photos...sion/index.htm

My Marconi 706 is there, so is Steve Ostler's (Panrock) 702. Who brought the 901?
Wasn't that David Looser's ?

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IT was the NVCF show that made me buy my first TV there and started me off with it all again !!! I had just got the house to a good clutter free enviroment as well I would have never belived that i would also end up with a pre war Tv set.
All the publicity canot be bad though Jeoffrey .It may spark off more peoples interest and educate a few more
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