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Darwish · 03-10-2020, 23:38

Ah yes, the Lobster, happy days, I had one of those! Pamela Anderson in the advert.

It had E4 (then a subscription channel) and I could watch Big Brother to and from work on the overground sections of the London Underground. Even when the TV service ended it continued as a great portable DAB radio, impervious to the interference suffered by analogue radio on my journey and with a battery life several times that of early dedicated DAB portables.

I suspect video bandwidth was limited and compression isn’t what it is today, but on the small screen that wasn’t really exposed.

A technological cul-de-sac but a fun one. Pamela still going strong.

03-10-2020, 23:38	#10
Darwish cf.member Join Date: Feb 2018 Posts: 4	Re: VM TV service over DAB. Ah yes, the Lobster, happy days, I had one of those! Pamela Anderson in the advert. It had E4 (then a subscription channel) and I could watch Big Brother to and from work on the overground sections of the London Underground. Even when the TV service ended it continued as a great portable DAB radio, impervious to the interference suffered by analogue radio on my journey and with a battery life several times that of early dedicated DAB portables. I suspect video bandwidth was limited and compression isn’t what it is today, but on the small screen that wasn’t really exposed. A technological cul-de-sac but a fun one. Pamela still going strong.