Seventeen+ years ago
Added 2025-09-03 14:03:01 +0000 UTCIt’s been an odd week with a death, a marriage and an MRI. As a result, video production has been slower than anticipated. The new video is also currently on hold while I wait for the delivery of a broken device that should enable me to fix my broken device due to it being broken in a different way. That should be arriving tomorrow.
In the absence of a new video this week, how about an old video, a really old video I found on a hard drive. I’m not sure whether I ever published this one on YouTube. I do recall that it was a competition/audition to get a job. This was back when lots of companies were making videos with good production values to be watched on iPods or the first iPhone. Needless to say I didn’t get that job and after watching this stilted, awkward video you’ll see why.
In my defence though this was recorded in June 2008. That’s over seventeen years ago. We'd only just invented TV a couple of years prior.
I’ve got ever so slightly better at this since and hopefully no longer come across as a slimy twit.
And no, I never had hair.
Comments
Bring Back tomorrows World :)
Antonio Monfermoso
2025-11-24 22:03:01 +0000 UTCI've just downloaded the first series of ancient 1990s BBC series 'The Net' which was my first exposure to "the internet" and was what prompted me to get my first modem (at first a 2400 baud hardwire Motorola found in a skip at the back of an office building) followed quite quickly by my second (38(?)K but allegedly upgradable to 56k - I don't think it ever was, they kept stalling and then offered a lame trade in deal). Your bit about the Chumby was no worse than most of the stuff on those programmes (the start of the DIY, 'no crew' aesthetic for a lot of the away from studio bits, filmed on camcorder and edited on a fledgling PC) and probably a lot better than some. Certainly better than the annoying games reviews, which were dropped for Series 2. "Be a chum - give a Chumby this Xmas!"
Lord Brannigan-7
2025-09-17 09:36:22 +0000 UTCPAL was / is interlaced like NTSC. By the time I had worked out how to get the interlacing right on Home Produced DVDs I was fed up with the whole idea. The most annoying thing was that they would play perfectly on a PC, but the picture would tear apart when there was any panning on a PAL TV.
Duncan
2025-09-14 20:46:34 +0000 UTCinteresting that the video is interlaced. wasn't PAL always progressive scan? or is this something to do with the output codec?
paul
2025-09-14 16:14:51 +0000 UTCI still use my Sony Dash (HID-C10) which runs Chumby to check the time and weather
Adrian Whitfield
2025-09-14 01:17:19 +0000 UTCI can detect more of your natural accent was present back then than now
Kevin Lloyd
2025-09-12 15:59:19 +0000 UTCUnfortunately I was trying to get this one over in within a time limit for the competition. I failed.
Techmoan
2025-09-10 22:14:26 +0000 UTCIt’s always noticable if you go back how YouTubers always slow down their speech as you get better at it
Mark Stradling
2025-09-10 19:18:43 +0000 UTCI love that chumby.com still exists and looks wonderful retro.
Crispy AI
2025-09-07 17:50:06 +0000 UTCGreat retro video.
Neil Belfitt
2025-09-06 16:17:45 +0000 UTC
