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By Nathan Chantrell, on November 12th, 2009
 Starting on Monday 16th November Channel 4 will be showing a series of programmes in 3D. They will be using the Danish ColorCode 3-D method which uses blue/amber lenses and is supposed to offer improved color and depth over the older red/cyan or red/green Anaglyphic 3D system. This probably means that any old 3D glasses you have stashed away are incompatible but don’t worry, you can pick up a free pair of glasses from most branches of Sainsbury’s.
The shows included in 3D Week are “The Greatest Ever 3D Moments“, a compilation showing some of the best 3D clips from over the years, some of the world’s greatest magic tricks in “Derren Brown Presents The 3D Magic Spectacular“, Paul Morrissey’s wacky 70s take on Frankenstein, “Flesh for Frankenstein“, horror film “Friday the 13th Part III“ plus “The Queen in 3D“, a showreel of the Queen filmed in her coronation year and “Best of Both Worlds“, a Hannah Montana concert. Something for almost everyone.
There is some more information about the programmes here and some tips on how to get the best 3D effect. If you can’t wait for Monday you can view some 3D video clips and images on the ColorCode 3-D website or on YouTube. The snake video is excellent.
By Nathan Chantrell, on October 18th, 2009
 I recently found some old photographs that I took of parts of the Wisteria Lodge episode of the TV series The Return of Sherlock Holmes being filmed in Grappenhall Village in Warrington where I lived at the time. Starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Watson it featured the cobbled streets of Grappenhall village as well as “The Large Room” made up as a Police station and the Rams Head Inn as The Bull Hotel. The episode aired in April 1988 and as far as I can ascertain the filming was in 1987, at the time a few of us skived off school for the day to watch and take pictures, purely for educational reasons of course!
You can view the rest of the pictures on Flickr here and the full Wisteria Lodge episode can be watched on YouTube in 6 parts starting here or you can jump straight to the parts filmed in Grappenhall here and here.
By Nathan Chantrell, on September 22nd, 2007
Taking the piss with this on screen logo or what! All the way through a 2.5 hour film 
By Nathan Chantrell, on July 30th, 2007
Well it might be an IE only DRM’d piece of crap but does it have any redeeming points?
Not that I can find. Had a play with it last night and can’t say I was impressed. 30 mins show at 142Mb, not bad but took ages to download and quality was piss poor on my big telly, loads of artifacting.
With that and the max 28 days to watch (7 days once you’ve watched it once) I will definately be sticking to torrents if that’s all they can offer!
Expected better of the beeb
By Nathan Chantrell, on March 14th, 2007
By Nathan Chantrell, on March 6th, 2005
Guess what I got of UKNova last night! Only the first episode of the new Dr Who!! It’s not even due to be broadcast till the end of the month. Wasn’t on there for long though, bit likely to draw the wrong sort of attention methinks Post viewing report coming later!
I’ve had some good bits of televisual geekery off UKN last week as well, two of which were the “Beeb VT Christmas tapes” from 78 & 79 (made by the guys in “VT” and not for public consumption), lots of comic Dr Who clips in there amongst other stuff!
Update:
You know, it’s actually not bad, Ecclestone seemed a bit out of place at the beginning but I think he grows on you… story is a bit of a revisit of a Pertwee one in some ways but I won’t spoil it! It was a full story in 45 mins too, not sure I like that idea but we’ll see.
Billy Piper: If you’re an alien why do you sound like you’re from the North?
The Doctor: Lot’s of planets have a North!
By Nathan Chantrell, on August 10th, 2004
Ofcom proposes to allow local religious and community organisations to operate within the UK Citizen Band allocation, to begin with, by licensing a number of such organisations to transmit services in a limited number of pilot areas.
Can see trouble when mic keyers and worse key over the vicar though!
and how about this, they said it wasn’t possible – a GSM mobile phone interceptor – a scanner for GSM phones, a snip at £228,000
Law enforcement agencies only so looks like I’ll have to give it a miss :p
By Nathan Chantrell, on July 10th, 2004
The new radio episodes of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I mentioned in November will air on Radio 4 on Tuesday 21 September 2004 at 6.30pm. Previews and more information here. Also, the long awaited DVD release of Series 2 of “Terry Nation’s Survivors” has been given a provisional release date of 4th October.
By Nathan Chantrell, on April 20th, 2004
Good news on the “Terry Nation’s Survivors” front, it has been confirmed that the second series of Survivors will DEFINITELY be released on DVD and Video later this year.
By Nathan Chantrell, on November 6th, 2003
There will be a new Hitch Hiker’s radio series out in 2004 – yes you read right! According to the BBC, the Tertiary Phase of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will be aired on Radio 4 next year. First off is a 6 parter of Life, the Universe and Everything due in spring 2004 followed by an 8 part adaptation of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless.
Hopefully it comes out OK without the oversight of Douglas Adams or Peter Jones as the voice of The Book, they’ve got a lot to live up to. Douglas himself will be playing the part of Agrajag… thanks to some recorded book readings.
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