River Thames Sunset

My first post of 2006! Happy New Year!

We had a great Xmas down with my parents, it was good to see all the family again. During the time off I managed to take some more pictures with my new camera, like the one above. I’m still learning how to use it but it’s cool. I’m also going to get a polarising filter this week.

In an unrelated newsflash, it seems that the long-anticipated Video On Demand (VOD) revolution has finally arrived here in the UK…Well, almost. I remember doing a paper on VOD back in college many years ago and we were definitely expecting it to have arrived sooner than 2006…So anyway I found out that Sky TV have recently launched Sky By Broadband and gave it a go. They’re offering a fairly good selection of sports clips and movies and the best bit is, all of this is available for no extra charge (if you are a subscriber to all Sky Movies / Sports channels. Incidentally, they are currently doing a 1/2 price offer, see sky.com).

Picture quality is pretty good, although I ended up using Windows Media Player to play the downloaded files because for some bizarre reason the Sky player won’t let you watch in fullscreen mode. So, it’s not a perfect viewing experience and the selection could be better but overall it’s not bad and I’m glad Sky are doing it.