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Originally Posted by Bob
Using a tuner card in your PC would give you clear screen grabs like the ones used on the VoD thread in the ntl: forums  |
Are they this clear on the ntl forum? I thought I'd only seen digital camera photos of peoples TVs of the ntl service. Ok, sorry, I'll check again in a minute.
Indeed I agree with you Bob it would be very clear pictures through a tuner card. If you did that, though, you'd expect that the small TV picture would be different on every screen grab, since they'd be grabbed at different times, and TV pictures are mostly changing all the time. Mostly.
So in these pictures I'm talking about (are there others?) ....
http://www.telewestinfo.co.uk/moviesondemand.shtml
Maybe the girl was just enjoying holding that pineapple so much she decided to stand motionless for several seconds while this Bristol triallist did 3 of the captures. Actually the time on all of them is 11:11 so they were all done within a minute, so that makes sense. And the date of Fri 1st December PROVES that Telewest had all this VOD stuff working back in 2000 (that's the last time 1st December fell on a friday). So it's actually strange of them to wait for 4 years for NTL to launch their trial, before launching their own on the very same day.
Yep, I got it wrong. Sorry everyone! My silly incredulity is based on nothing!
Or maybe those are mock-ups and we've yet to see screen grabs of the real thing. Seriously, I'm not suggesting they were intended to be taken as real screen shots, but I'm just dying to see the real thing in action, and these shots aren't doing it for me as I don't think they're taken from the trial.