Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "BBC Archive" channel.

  1. You weren't there...
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  2.  @JJONNYREPP  Why the hell do you keep prefixing every comment with that long useless blurb about the video?
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  3. I've been known to wax my cylinder to a glossy sheen, sometimes twice a day.
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  4. Maybe Sega lost in the US but in Europe, or at least the UK, they far outsold Nintendo and were anything but a failure, though no console could compete with home computers like the C64 and Spectrum. When I was 10 I only knew three people who owned a console and all three owned Sega Master Systems. Then the next generation arrived a couple of years later and what few people in the UK owned a NES decided to buy a Sega Megadrive instead of the Super NES and Nintendo were gone. They did have a slight resurgence with the N64 though.
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  5.  @Isclachau  Not on the TV there isn't, the broadcasting watchdog would prosecute.
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  6.  @tomtative  Other people's achievements, this video was from a time when the UK either led the world in some scientific fields or were in the top 3 or 5 of scientific fields. Today we're the only major power in Europe that doesn't have a high speed rail network...
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  7.  @JohnBurgessMusic  Actually, what you said about Clarkson happens to be the opposite, it was him who wanted to "liven up the show", not a producer. He and Tiff Needell did not get on very well because he thought that a car show should be full of "whoosh" and "wow" and things petrolheads enjoy while Tiff - who was there long before Jeremy - wanted to keep the show as a factual guide on good car tips and buying. Clarkson got permission to try some new ideas and the show evolved into more of an entertainment spectacle, that's when Tiff left, and because he was respected enough by the Beeb and because they still thought a factual car show had an audience they let him launch Fifth Gear. Tiff hates "Clarkson and co." as he call Jeremy, Hammond and May. James May has stated that he misses when he did factual car journalism but that "if you had a choice of earning 100k a year or a million, what would you choose?" Hammond is the puppy who loves being Clarkson's understudy and the fame while James is the one who was wrangled into Clarkson's world but enjoys the money.
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  8.  @jimallen9442  The Housers chose to put their headquarters in New York because they wanted to live in the US, that is true, but to call them an American company is pedantic and smacks of desperation.
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  9. 5:19 "Heil Craven!" stamps feet
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  10. The internet goes as far back as the late 60's but like GPS it wasn't available to the public until much later, around 1979, and even then it would still be cumbersome and niche until 1991 when the launch of the World Wide Web made it easy to use by just about anyone.
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  11.  @bardo0007  The Oliver Twins could churn out six games a year on the Speccy, I always thought they were just behind the Dizzy games but it seems like they also released just about any game with Simulator in the title, BMX Simulator, Jet Ski Simulator, Skiing Simulator, etc.
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  12. I still love Walker, I played that game for hours on my Amiga.
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  13. The engineering and expertise that must have went in to sending David Mitchell back 51 years to host a documentary on skulls.
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  14.  @aimée_sao  Nae love for Scotland? Jeezo 🤣
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  15. A free market means companies are free to make things wherever is cheapest. Capitalists can't have their cake and eat it too.
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  16. She might have been a practitioner of necromantic magic and planned to reanimate her dead pet over wifi.
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  17. If you're in the UK you might not get adverts but everyone else will, for obvious reasons.
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  18. Pretty much. Those were the days that gave the UK its stereotype for being constantly overcast.
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  19.  @RoderikvanReekum  It was good old British sarcasm.
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  20. Because they didn't exist then, presenters with regional accents would not be allowed on Radio or TV until well into the 60's.
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  21.  @Voting-does-nothing  Probably because, unlike you, they aren't a crackpot?
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  22. You silly cone!
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  23. This aired in July of 1994, Commodore had folded three months earlier and would not be resurrected until several months later so they likely saw no need to feature a computer that would soon be redundant.
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  24.  @vapeymcvape5000  Yes, that is what we are known as.
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  25. After Psygnosis were forced to drop DMA Design due to financial problems BMG Interactive stepped in and became their new publisher, BMG would later go on to rename themselves Rockstar Games after GTAIII was released in 2001, five years after this video. Then they bought DMA and renamed them Rockstar North.
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  26. I think you will find they are actually called "freedom" fries now after America's petulant little tantrum towards France in 2003.
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  27. It would depend on what class you were and who you were allowed to address.
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  28. What a silly question. You may as well ask why anyone builds anything if it already exists elsewhere, the answer is so you aren't stuck as a customer dependent on someone else.
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  29.  @Mondegreen---SFW  Yeah, not sure what that clown was on about, in 2002 I had a cable modem and was able to download Gangs of New York, admittedly it came in three .mpg files of 699MB each that had to be watched on a computer or burned to CDs and watched on a DVD player. The jump from downloadable music to downloadable films happened practically overnight.
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  30. Flying cars will become a reality once they have enough safety features to ensure they won't fall on and kill people the moment something breaks, so I'm guessing we'll have working fusion before then. To say something is never going to happen though is short-sighted when you consider the number of things in the world that we take for granted despite them "never going to happen".
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  31.  @JArm1996  A Casio watch from 1985 had more processing power than the Apollo computer.
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  32. I would turn the telly on, my friend's answering machines were filled with 30 second snippets of British daytime telly audio. Or sometimes I'd secretly call one while they were at my house so they'd have a tiny chunk of our conversation waiting for them at home.
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  33. haha, he does say inscride :P
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  34. They featured in absolutely every band in the 80's so yeah to call them successful would be an understatement.
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  35. That's strange seeing as the 60's and 70's was the heyday of the serial killer and women being murdered was so common it barely made the news - are you sure having an idiot for a grandaughter hasn't just brought on some senility in your old nan?
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  36. Coaxial helicopters lose yaw and are harder to land if they break in the sky. A regular helicopter can be autorotated to the ground using the airflow over the main rotor to keep the tail rotor spinning, having the tail rotor means the helicopter can point in one direction ensuring enough air flows over the rotor to glide to the ground for a bumpy, but safe landing. If a coaxial helicopter loses engine power it tends to yaw to one side or the other and corkscrews to the ground much faster, this is the reason why coaxial helicopters either fly very low or they fit ejector seats that detach the rotors before launching the pilot(s) away from the craft. TLDR; If a Coaxial helicopter breaks your choices are either hitting the ground hard with the helicopter and breaking some bones or hitting the ground slightly less hard in your ejector seat and hopefully not breaking any bones.
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  37. I hope that is sarcasm.
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  38. On Google Earth the entire location is caked in graffiti now.
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  39. You only have to read a handful of comments to see you're likely one of the youngest people here.
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  40. The internet existed then, but there was no web yet so it was just a novelty for rich kids and colleges.
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  41. He meant decoding the music from digital to analogue audio for playback uses (what was at that time) immense computational power, it was 1983 after all. The £500 price tag of the player was likely for the digital-to-analogue convertor (DAC) alone, a very specialised audio chip that reads 1s and 0s and turns them into sound.
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  42. This video was broadcast two months after the worst financial event in British history where Tory incompetence (what's new?) wiped about a quarter of a trillion pounds off the British economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
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  43.  @coleball6001  The great depression never really affected other countries as badly as it did the US.
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  44. People just don't want you being stuck in Dundee, they are being cruel to be kind.
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  45. Light sensor for the automatic headlamps.
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  46. Dundee brought chips to the UK? Man we need to add a C to the three J's.
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  47.  @papalegba6796  Of course there is. Any spacecraft that leaves Earth will move with the Earth unless it burns it's engines long enough to leave Earth far behind, it's called relativity, if you already know that the moon goes everywhere the Earth goes then why would you think a spacecraft between them wouldn't? The Earth will always be where a spacecraft expects it to be because they will be moving with it through space, even as far away as the moon. Now visiting Mars on the other hand would mean leaving the relative location of Earth, passing through open space, and entering the relative location of Mars, where after matching the direction and speed of Mars the spacecraft would then become relative to it.
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  48. What does that even mean? The only English thing in this video is the reporter...
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  49. This was just the ad before the following day's test of stereo sound.
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  50. Surely you would rather archive something than let it be lost? This video rightfully would have been archived immediately after it was aired, as that is what you do if you plan to keep something. Am I missing something here?
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