I think the first artistically ambitious TV show I remember coming out of the US was 'Twin Peaks'.
I've watched GBH a few times since it aired and I think it still holds up. Certainly give it a go if you get the chance. The original UK TV version of 'Edge of Darkness' is also still very, very watchable. Some remarkable scenes and performances.
And if you're so inclined you can pop over to Jura and have a nosey around the cottage Orwell wrote most of 1984 in :-) It's quite a pretty spot too :-)
Just to add some anecdotal pain... I recently bought my first audio book from Audible. I didn't realise it was a proprietary DRM'd format which has no sensible playback on Linux. So rather than spend time hacking together something to rip it, I ended up torrent'ing an mp3 of the book I'd just bought.
It's entirely put me off buying anything else from Audible :-/
Same here. I know they have DRM but it says it plays on "all devices". It actually includes an impressive number of mp3 players, but a notable omission turned out to be Linux.
Then I discovered ffmpeg can decode the files and turned back to my girlfriend who has wanted to share an audible account for a while now.
... which is when I discovered there isn't just Audible, there's Audible US ($15=14eur), Audible UK (8 pounds=9.50eur), Audible DE (10 euros) and others, all of which have different offerings of course. The German one has English stuff, but less. The English ones obviously have hardly any German audio books. My girlfriend is German but we speak English to each other and most stuff we'd read is originally American. Which do we get now, US, UK or DE?
Can't we "just have audio books"? And as m4b/mp3 please, we both want to load it into Smart Audio Book Player which has some features on Android that Audible's player doesn't. Wasn't the whole point of getting Audible to get access to audio books without having to buy and rip each individually?
What a mess.
Oh and for those who are considering Audible without planning on converting them into mp3s, note that the Android app wants to:
- read accounts from the device
- read your contacts
- record audio
- see your phone number
- view WiFi connections
- view network connections
- prevent the device from sleeping (=battery killer and unnecessary for uninterrupted playback with screen off)
I've also found audio books on Audible that they won't sell me because I live in the wrong region (US). I wanted to give them money for a product they carry, but they can't/won't accept it.
I fondly remember playing 'Midi Maze' on the ST back in the 80's. LAN gaming has moved on a little, but I remember the joy and amazement of playing it :-)
I can relate to that - we used to have two related systems which couldn't talk to each other. So the solution was to print out (landscape, tiny font) 1000's of lines from one system, then sit with a ruler and highlighter pen re-typing it into the other. Day in, day out.
A newer system which replaced some of the functionality and cost many millions of dollars will only export as .xls and only import from .csv (no API offered). Better than typing it in by hand, but it still pains me every day :-/
I'm just down the road - I might pop past at some point for a nosey :-) The only things of note I'd ever spotted in Govan were Titan Props and Film City - live and learn!
More than welcome. We're in the recently restored Fairfield Shipyard Offices on Govan Road so not been open for too long. We also do a monthly meetup for local startups in The Raven on the first Monday of each month.
I've watched GBH a few times since it aired and I think it still holds up. Certainly give it a go if you get the chance. The original UK TV version of 'Edge of Darkness' is also still very, very watchable. Some remarkable scenes and performances.