As the characters Janice and Ray used to regularly say on the Catherine Tate Show. Having whinged about Channel Five in the past, I shall now whinge about the BBC.
I watched episode 1 of "The Day of the Triffids" on BBC iPlayer and very good it was, too. So far, so good.
I then tried to watch episode 2. It was available in High Definition format only. I bought my lap-top in May 2003 and it isn't up to displaying High Definition programmes on Flash Player 10. I could listen to the programme for a while, but Firefox has a memory leak, which accelerates when trying to play High Definition programmes on Flash Player.
Once all of the memory has been used up, Firefox displays a dialog box, locks-up or just terminates. I disabled Virtual Memory on my lap-top as Hard Disk is ~500,000 times slower than RAM. I have 1GB of memory and that's it. My lap-top won't take more than 1GB of RAM.
So, Aunty Beeb. Why can't I watch programmes in either Low Definition or High Definition formats?
P.S. The BBC messageboards recently changed to the BBC iD system. I tried to migrate Nigeepoo (I've been using that username there since March 2003) to the BBC iD system to be informed "Your username appears to contain a profanity". You couldn't make this stuff up! They will be sorting it out at some point...
I'm temporarily posting there with the username Nigeep00 <- that's two zeros, by the way.
P.P.S. I was so busy whingeing that I completely forgot to wish all my readers a Happy New Year. So......
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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