The World Service had replaced their pre-pips 'This is the BBC in London, ..., ...' with a voiceover ending 'The World's radio sation' since about August. However this evening I heard the old slogan again, but with what sounded like an updated theme behind it. They can't have already dropped the ...

I'm pretty sure (and this is my understanding of how it works) that a few years ago they split the English World Service output into 2 - one a more newsy service and the other a more general World Service with feature/entertainment programmes and short bulletins on the hour/half hour. The idea ...

(More interestingly in Athens was our mobiles which were provided by the Host Broadcaster, which all had a four digit number, so to call within the crew, we only had to dial those four digits rather than the long number the phones normally had.)
O2 call it Mobex (MOBile EXtension) and it's used by ...

Didn't laserdisc only support 440 lines? Super-duper-er than VHS I suppose though!

But it's 440 lines of digitised composite PAL so you get a clean softer picture with a PAL footprint instead of a sharper picture with macroblocking on the modern digital compressed formats. Someone tried to ...

Kingswood Warren usually get out the model globe and the big (probably about 10U) silver COW crate whenever they have an open day. I was surprised how small the model was, the globe inside is smaller than a tennis ball - it is a heck of a lot smaller than the COW.

The other place I've seen a COW ...