Very poor lip sync

I generally am not watching a lot of TV at the moment, but I have been amazed by the HUGE amount of really poor lip syncing on TV Adverts at the moment!

You occasionally get one of two poor attempts pop up, but at the moment there are about 5. Not only is the quality of the lip sync really bad, but the adverts are seriously cheesy!!!

Do the big companies really think we are going to be drawn to such poor adverts???

Sky vs Virgin

I heard something on the radio the other day about SKY having a little falling out with Virgin Media.

Did not really know of care particularly what it was about as I neither have SKY or Virgin TV packages.

Since then I have heard MANY Radio and TV adverts promoting SKY stating that if you are a Virgin customer, you will be loosing out as Virgin will no longer be showing the new series of the Simpson's or Lost as they are no longer showing SKY One. And you will no longer be able to watch SKY sports news.

I understand that there is competition between different broadcasters and service providers, but it seems to me that SKY are acting a little bit like a naughty child and stamping their feet.

As much as I understand why they are putting out these adverts, I think it is a little childish to be spending LOADS of money putting out these silly ad's.

If you are a Virgin customer and you do indeed enjoy the programs that SKY have offered, I am sure that you would be more than aware that suddenly some of you favorite channels had suddenly disappeared.

I have the up most respect for Mr Branson and indeed the companies he owns. Whereas I am a little more dubious of SKY and its owners, who I am sure is attempting to take over the world!

Schindler's List

What an amazing film!

I had seen this film years ago, when I was at school but then I neither appreciated the quality of the film, or the level with which Oscar Schindler went in order to save lives!

If you have not seen this film and are interested in WW2 at all it is a must watch!

Windows Vista...... I AM SOLD!

I have been using Windows Vista Ultimate for approx 2 days now, and it has to be said... I AM SOLD!

I love it!

• It looks great
  
• It works great
• It is easy to use

And most importantly IT WORKS! Bloody well, which is more than can be said for the first few releases possibly also the final releases of Windows XP.

I have now managed to transfer all of my hardware and applications, and my computer is running like a dream!

SO.... if you have a reasonably new computer running Windows XP, run the compatibility check... and if it is compatible UPGRADE!

You will not regret it!

Outlook Express VS Windows Mail

I have always used Microsoft Outlook Express to view my emails from my various email accounts and was pleased to find that there is a very similar version in Vista called Windows Mail.

The only problem is, I cannot work out a way to copy all of my email messages across!!!!

If I had done a simple upgrade from XP to Vista, I do not think that it would have been a problem, as Windows Mail would have automatically picked up the settings and messages from Outlook Express. But as I did a dual boot install, Windows Mail cannot see any previous versions of Outlook installed (obviously).

I was hoping that I would simply be able to import all of the messages from the Outlook store folder, but this to has failed.

I am enjoying Vista SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much that I want to use it as my main OS, but as it stands I have to keep booting into XP to check all of my email accounts which I am sure you can understand is bloody annoying!!!!!!

Any ideas anyone?????

DVD Film Rental By Post

I was tempted to join an online rental service almost 2 years ago, but resisted because my already huge list of Direct Debits was daunting enough!

BUT, a friend of mine (Dave) game me a code whereby I could try the rental service for 1 month for FREE!!!!! But of course I had to enter my Debit details before the trial commenced.

I am not sure, but I think at the time Screen Select was the only service that offered online rentals, certainly the only one I had hear of. Nearly 2 years later, I am still a member (Now called LoveFilm.com) and have the souped up subscription (3 at a time Unlimited) and I must say I love it!

You can add as many films as you want (I have approx 500 currently on my list) and I must say after watching over 200 films, most of which I would never have rented in the shop or watched on the telly etc I LOVE IT!!!!!

I have seen some great movies, some of which I had never heard of!!! I simply searched for films either by director or by actor and then clicked 'Add' to all in the search results. OK I have watched some lemons! but most of them have been great!

So, if you have thought about using an online rental service, LoveFilm.com is a great service... and if you want I can give you a promotional code which will give you a month for free.. and a month for me I think!!!!

I take it all back!!!!!

Not that anyone has actually read my last post about Windows Vista, but just in case you did (or are about to) please read this......

IT WORKS!!!!! Not only that, but it appears that it had been working the whole time!

Yes I know, what an idiot! After I had finished my last post, I thought I would give it another go..... So I shut down Windows XP and then booted into Windows Vista. Same bloody problem again, the monitor went into standby... BUT and this is the key to the door, the computers hard drive appeared to be ticking over quite happily!

So, I tried pressing the 'Num Lock' key on the computer, and this seemed to respond fine!

Then with 1 single finger, FIXED THE PROBLEM THAT HAS MEANT THAT I HAVE BEEN SITTING HERE SCRATCHING ME HEAD FOR THE LAST WEEK AND A HALF.

I pushed the button on my monitor, that switched it between Analogue and Digital output! As if by magic, the Windows Vista Setup screen appeared!

Now I guess there are a few people out there that are thinking WHAT AN IDIOT! But I do have a good reason why it has taken over a week to find this really, really simple fix to my problem!

For as long as I have had this computer, I have not managed to get Windows XP to display on my monitor in Digital Output! Don't ask me why, probably because it is not capable of doing such a thing etc etc..... but for whatever the reason I have not pushed this button since the first week when I got it.

AND NOW WINDOWS VISTA will not display in anything other than Digitally, not on my computer anyway.

So.... here I am not using Windows Vista Ultimate, and my first impressions are that it is GREAT. I am sold so far!!!!

I am now going to have a good look through it and I will report back my opinions in the next few days!