BBC Shakespeare: The Hollow Crown, BBC2 / BBC HD

[JimD]

My PVR allows me to split and rename recordings so I can now divide it up and delete what I don't want. ...

I know the answer will be obvious, but what's a PVR?

PS Are you really Philip Larkin, Caliban?

[Northender]

[QUOTE=JimD;181856]I know the answer will be obvious, but what's a PVR?

PS Are you really Philip Larkin, Caliban?[/QUOTE]
More DSCH, I think you'll find.
PVR = Personal Video Recorder, I think.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

....i have gathered a very distinct impression that Caliban is currently a living entity .....

[Nick Armstrong]

[QUOTE=Northender;181858]

I know the answer will be obvious, but what's a PVR?

PS Are you really Philip Larkin, Caliban?[/QUOTE]
More DSCH, I think you'll find.
PVR = Personal Video Recorder, I think.

Indeed... but why Larkin, JimD?

[DracoM]

For me, Jeremy Irons was both a surprise and absolutely outstanding.
I do hope someone somewhere is lining him up for Lear?

[JimD]

Oh...you know...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11909126

Can't find a picture of him with a hat. One of him smiling was hard enough. Better stop now or will be castigated for going off-topic!

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh...you know...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11909126

No no... Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich



Er....

ooops...

sorry...





(Also difficult to find looking jolly... whistle)

[JFLL]

I'm one of those people... I have desktop and a laptop in the same room as the TV and I would still rather see a programme on the big screen - esp here where it's a visual feast in HD. That said, my PVR allows us to watch iPlayer on the TV and that is very useful as the quality and streaming are very impressive.

When you tell me things like that, Caliban, I begin to think I've made a few wrong choices technology-wise. We bought a DVD/HDD (250 gig) freeview recorder about three years ago, but it's only got a single hard drive, so now after the end of analogue we can't, say, record the Shakespeare and watch the 10 o'clock news, especially now they're not repeating programmes so often – BBC4, as so often, is a shining exception, except that some of the repeats in the middle of the night have the irritating little tic-tac man or woman in the corner for the deaf. I've still got another old freeview box which as far as I know is still in working order, and I've an idea one could somehow split the aerial signal and watch one programme while recording another, but I haven't plucked up courage to try to figure out how it's done. OK, you'll say, just buy a dual drive recorder, but that would go against my ingrained habit of never throwing out a piece of equipment until it gives up its ghost.

[eighthobstruction]

I think the lack of posts here about the play may say it all....

....I thought it generally a poor attempt, mainly due to the AUDIO....I found the dialogue too rapid, lacking in colour and correct emphasis....stress....given as a stream of words, rather than broken to give significance....

I thought Hal was a complete miscast....

[amateur51]

I think the lack of posts here about the play may say it all....

....I thought it generally a poor attempt, mainly due to the AUDIO....I found the dialogue too rapid, lacking in colour and correct emphasis....stress....given as a stream of words, rather than broken to give significance....

I thought Hal was a complete miscast....

I'm going to watch on iPlayer eighth because then I can call up the subtitles - I have quite poor hearing at the best of times, so thanks for the warning

[aeolium]

....I thought it generally a poor attempt, mainly due to the AUDIO....I found the dialogue too rapid, lacking in colour and correct emphasis....stress....given as a stream of words, rather than broken to give significance....

I agree, though I don't think it's anything like as good a play as RII. And one of the problems of presenting it as a film, rather than a staged performance, is that the characteristics of TV acting, including at times murmured or hushed speaking, affect the clarity of the diction - this was not imv a problem with the RII as the actors spoke very clearly, but was much more noticeable here. I did think Russell Beale as Falstaff was good though.

[BBMmk2]

I wonder how many composers there are whjo have been inspired by Shakespear?

[Stunsworth]

We bought a DVD/HDD (250 gig) freeview recorder about three years ago, but it's only got a single hard drive, so now after the end of analogue we can't, say, record the Shakespeare and watch the 10 o'clock news...

Your problems are caused by there being only one tuner. They have nothing to do with the hard drive.

[Nick Armstrong]

Your problems are caused by there being only one tuner. They have nothing to do with the hard drive.

Was just about to say the same thing. I only have one hard drive but twin tuners so that one can watch one thing and record another. I thought that was the norm, even in the old days of VCRs. My machine is criticised because it only has two... standard thing these days is apparently the ability to record two separate channels simultaneously which I can't do. But then, there is almost never a situation where I want to do that, when repeats and/or iPlayer are available.

[Northender]

I have the same problem, for the same reason. SOME combinations of channels work, however. For example, I can watch the BBC News Channel, but not BBC1, when recording BBC2, and so on. So you, too, might be able to watch the 2200 news on the BBC News Channel (where it's 'duplicated') while recording the Shakesperare, but that may depend on your model of tuner.