Video Jukebox

[Ed Duffy]

Yes, thanks again, Roger! Watching this again, it's surprising how
much of it has stuck in my mind.

I'm still puzzled how a show like that, even if Peel's and Walters'
links were done live, could overrun by a whole two hours. After all,
surely most, if not all, of the segments were pre-recorded? And if it
did go two hours over, does that mean it lasted 8½ hours, not 6½ as
announced at the start? And finally, what's that enigmatic shot of a
monitor and someone moving cables at the very end of disc 1?

Regarding thebox, Bill, I've found it much more of a struggle to keep
your ratio to respectable levels than it is at say, UKNova. But you do
get free invites every time your upload count goes over certain
thresholds, so that's how I ended up with so many. One handy tip I
only recently discovered is that the free leeches, whilst costing
nothing to download, do count towards your upload score. So it's worth
grabbing the Free Leech of The Week even if you don't particularly
want it, to get the ratio boost. But don't go over the top and, as
they call it "ratio whore", 'cause that nets you a warning as well.
The rule of thumb is to not seed back more than about 200%.

Finally, back on the subject of UKNova, I notice that someone's
recently uploaded 6 episodes of Life of Grime there, complete with
Peel voiceover and the legendary Mr. Trebus. (And no, it's not a show
about grime MCs).

Eddie.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "billfromnorthwales"
<billfromnorthwales@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Roger, geeez wasn't everyone young then...
> 
> It was Ed Duffy who had the invites for the box, since he he is such 
> respected user there, so hopefully he can help with the invite thing.
> 
> Me, I'm aleays on ratio watch, so I never get invited to bring my
> mates round....
> 
> Bill
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Roger Carruthers <roger.carruthers@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Part 2 is here:
> > http://www.mininova.org/tor/2261933
> > It¹s not quite the entire thing ­ it actually ends at a strangely
> > serendipitous moment, where Julien Temple has just said how
today¹s kids
> > have such short attention spans that they find anything longer than
> a pop
> > video too long. It cuts off exactly there - spooky! And if he
> thought the
> > youth of Œ86 had short attention spans ­ does that mean us? - I
> wonder what
> > he makes of the Wii generation ?
> >  According to the ftvdb synopsis, that means we miss such treats as
> Dave Lee
> > Roth and Weird Al Yankovich ­ no great loss, then. Apparently  it
> ran for 2
> > hrs (!) longer than advertised, which is probably why it didn¹t fit
> onto two
> > 3 hr tapes.
> > It¹s an .iso and bit shorter than the first half.
> > 
> > Btw, Bill, I just as before, I got no confirmation email from The
> Box after
> > I finally did mange to sign up, so I guess this means I didn¹t get an
> > account. So if you still have any invites, how does the invitation
thing
> > work...?
> > Cheers
> > Roger
> >
>