Blast from the Past
But there are so many famous TV docs! Did he mean…?
Throw away your working TV: wasteful or not?
The wife is hinting that if we get a new TV, we can put it on the wall with tv mounting brackets! I quite like the 10-year old one, a 29-inch Philips TV with a traditional CRT display. It renders standard cable TV in fine detail. But the problem with the new TVs is that…
Dated TV: But Good! ITV Granada for Asia
Agatha Christie’s Poirot(TV series 1989– ) Hickory Dickory Dock (#6.2) 103 min - 7.4/10 Miss Lemon persuades Poirot to investigate a series of apparently minor thefts in a university hostel, but simple kleptomania soon turns to baffling homicide. Director: Andrew Grieve Writers: Agatha Christie (novel), Anthony Horowitz(dramatisation) Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson and Pauline Moran…
Beauty isn’t on TV… or is it?
Every time I turn on the TV, I always see lots of commercials for all sorts of beauty products, such as cleansers, foundations, acne products, creams, potions… it’s amazing what cosmetic companies try to plug… But the more amazing thing is the disingenuous advertising claims that the manufacturers try to demonstrate: showing models using these…
Would you watch TV on a monitor? Or connect your PC to your TV?
Way back when I was in University, I remember being taken to someone’s room. When we went in, I saw an Apple Mac (it was 1987… guesses please on which Apple it was!) and everyone was watching TV on the screen. How neat I thought? Twenty-two years later, it still hasn’t happened. Why? That puzzles…