Teletext Recovery - 18/12/2004

P547 CJEFAX 2 547 Sat 18 Dec 16:52/17   1/3  WHEN A PYTHON DVD ISNW- WHAT YOU WANT Hand on heart, this is true: engineers started work repairing a DVD player only to find a live python in the box. Staff at Samsung's New Jersey plant phoned the owner of the player, Missouri's Sheila Himmerick, to ask if she was a disgruntled customer. Apparently not. Paco the Python made his way in when she wasn't looking and nestled down in the packaging. HimmerUck and Paco will be reunited shortly. Samsung made no comment about whether the player was repairable. ————— William.Gallagher@bbc.co.uk ————— Games 550 Children 570 Soaps 525 Music 530 TV Index 520 Films 540 DVDReview TV Index Singlis FilmIndex

P547 CEEFAX 2 547 Sat 18 Dec 16:52/29   2/3  NETWORK VIDEO RELAUNCHES TV DVD SITE It seems that every DVD firm has a website so it shouldn't be a big deal when one is relaunched, but this one is: it's Network Video's site. Network releases a particularly wide range of TV DVDs, from Press Gang to Ripping Yarns, and while its DVDs are very good, its (old) website wasn't. Now www.networkdvd.co.uk has a smart OS X look and while it's still not complete, what's there is worth a read. At the time of writing its shop wasn't working, but when ij is I'll race you to the special offer on Public Eye. ————— William.Gallagher@bbc.co.uk ————— Music 530 TV Index 520 Films 540 DVDReviiw TV Index Singles FilmIndex

P547 CEEFAX 2 5)7 Sat 18 Dec 1&953/48   3/3  READERS RESENT HIGH-DEFINITION DVD The news of studios picking which high defiLition D$D format theyWre going to back has made many of you fume. Ari Georgiou doesn't care whether Blu-Ray is better or worse than HD-DVD: "Hopefully both formats will quickly sink into oblivion where they belong." He adds: "Eilm studios are mad if they think that aftet shelling out our precious pounds on standard DVD we are now going to shell out even more." Hybrid discs are coming but enrage reader DT Has, who calls them "the most sinister possible outcome". ————— William.Gallagher@bbc.co.uk ————— Music 530 TV Index 520 Films 540 D$DReview TV Index Singles FilmIndex

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