Friday, August 20, 2004

BBCi and the jitters
BBC's interactive service, available to satellite viewers (4 additional feeds) and freeview ones (2 feeds), is pretty good, apart from it's Eurosport-like nature of not running to time, and having all sorts of problems with the schedule not being adhered to. It means that I can see much of the sailing, for example, without having to watch wrestling or darts.....

But it effects a strange pattern of behaviour in me, especially if there are a few quite interesting things but nothing I'm desperate to see. I settle down, choose one, and start to watch. And then I wonder if perhaps I'm not missing something rather better on another channel, so hop back up and try that. And because it takes time to dump the data over the satellite link, there are long pauses whilst pages load. And this behaviour continues..... Now, I don't get it so much between channels, since they usually offer very different things - but the choice between sports channels with similar levels of interest provkes a stressed, short attention span response which I'm sure is not just evident in me. Isn't it?

// posted by Russell @ 1:41 PM
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