Indoors-y things - of books and telly and new year type thinky-thoughts
Hello! It's the Monday after Christmas, and it's a bank holiday Monday, and after three days of mostly sitting on my couch and reading books, interspersed with watching telly, I think I should probably try and be a bit more active today... *g* So - a post isn't a bad place to start, I think? Hope you all had good days over the break - and still are
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Dickensian is formatted rather oddly - half-hour eps fine, but two half-hour eps each night? That's just odd! Not sure why that makes it iPlayer unfriendly, though? If anything surely it's more friendly - granted there's a lot of them, but smaller downloads/streams? Unless you've got a really lousy connection where you are. Ours isn't brilliant here, but it's good enough to actually be able to watch iPlayer on without it stopping every two seconds, which is what happened when I tried watching something on it in Cambs. I strongly suspect there'll be a dvd version pretty sharpish after it's been aired, though... *g*
And oh, the Star Wars Shakespeare books! I've got the first one (bought in Stratford, even *g*), and it's brilliant! You wouldn't have thought they'd work, but they fit together excellently! I'm reading it very gradually, but it's such good fun!
I like the sound of your goals - nice and simple. Get fit again, and get some jobs done around the house. That's the sort of overall thing I'm looking for, actually - there's lots of stuff I want to do, it's the overall project that I'm missing! Good luck with yours!
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Last customer survey I filled in for iPlayer had a question about metered connections, so maybe they'll consider adding that at the next upgrade.
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I suppose I tend to stream iPlayer these days. Now though - what's a metered connection exactly? Sort of like pay-as-you-go, I presume, and so not fully broadbanded? Cos surely they should still be pretty quick if you've got broadband? But maybe not if you're on a dongle-type thing or having a lousy connection... Anyway - there's 11pm - can I post this...? *tries* (*g*)
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Metered connection is just one you pay for, so pay-as-you-go is about right, but it has nothing to do with the technical side of things. That works as efficiently either way.
So, in my case, I get as much free downloading as I want from hour A to hour B, but it eats into my allowance between hour X and hour Y (sort of Economy 7 - very popular in the lads' era - for the t'internet). As a consequence I opt to download between hours A and B most of the time, but at the moment there's no way to indicate to the iPlayer which hours these are, which is not very helpful to my economy drive.
But there is some talk of allowing you to do this, which would be great for things like Dickensian, taking all the faff out of downloading it in the freebie hours, 'cos currently I have to be around during hours A and B and push each ep download button manually - which is fine for things like films and Dr Who, but a pain for things with so many eps, like Dickensian.
The least painful way to do it would be to wait until the end of the run and initiate twenty separate downloads manually, but it's not ideal.
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I suppose with series I'd want to watch each one separately if I was streaming/downloading anyway rather than saving them all up until the end. If I was going to do that I'd probably just wait until the dvds got cheap-ish. - but then I'd've watched one at least to make sure I liked it, so... *g* /ramble...
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