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Saturday, June 19, 2004
It's over...almost.
Well, my classes are now over. I still have one final thing to do -- the Test of Knowledge, which is basically a week-long final project. It replaces exams for us. But that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
It feels so good to actually relax for once -- to know that I don't have some giant urgent thing that I need to be doing research on. It's nice.
So, this will mean that I can start really investing a lot more of my time into the fun stuff -- web stuff. I have plenty to do, but not so much that it's going to take away from my vacation.
Other than that, the last couple of days have been relatively uneventful. I had Foxtel Digital installed on Friday (after almost a three month wait) -- this is something that Australians will probably be familiar with. For those of you in other countries, Foxtel is basically a cable TV provider. And they've recently introduced wholly-digital services across the country.
Apart from the new channels and such (many of which I won't watch), it's the simple features that are most cool. Stuff like program reminders, auto-tune and Box Office (a system where you pay-per-view your movies). Still, most of that I won't use very often. I just don't watch TV avidly enough to support that.
However, I am really pleased with certain aspects.
For example, the new Club V channel. It's so cool; Club V used to be a TV show on Channel V (Aussie equivalent to VH1 or MTV) and it basically covers electronic music of various genres. Well, now Club V is an entire channel...and it has no actual "shows". So it's 100% music clips, 24 hours a day. I really like that. And the fact that the sound is "CD quality" provides for some added coolness.
Club V is also kinda unique compared to Channel V. I mean, when you're watching a clip, it will flash all kinds of cool animated graphics over the screen...which will tell you about the album that the song is on, about the artist history and so on. It's really nice.
There are also some 30 "audio-only" channels, called Air. Each channel is kinda like a radio broadcast, in high-quality digital sound. It's cool, in the sense that you can just choose your genre-station and let it play. The fact that the music is as good as a CD is also a great benefit... a lot nicer than regular radio, for sure.
So really, those are the main things I've been using the service for. It's good to have a bit more variety (and now we do actually get VH1 here; MTV's been on here for a while).
Also, one of Foxtel Digital's new channels is TechTV. I think it's great that this channel is now available here. Although I don't think I'll be a frequent watcher, it certainly has various elements that interest me.
Tonight I watched that show X-Play for the first time (which reminds me very much of GameSpot TV -- which I didn't particularly like). It was kind of interesting, because I thought X-Play's reviews were fairly well written, considering what the format of the show is. The review of Tenchu 3 was actually quite funny, especially when the host talked about the stupidity of the enemy A.I. "...like this guy, who is faithfully guarding an empty corner."
So, it was a nice way to end the week. ~_^
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