I'm not at all happy.
You see, I love Dr Who. And I missed it on Christmas Day. And I didn't set the video to record it. My fault, I know. But all was not lost!
I thought I would step out into the bold new world of TV on the internet, and decided to download the programme (all 600Mb of it) from the BBC iplayer site just before New Year.
3 hours later, and all seemed well. The programme was now on my PC, and available to view until 24 January, at which point it would spontaneously combust or something.
So, this evening, I settled down on the sofa, Mrs D having gone out for a few hours. Dr Who beckoned. I was getting excited (OK - call me sad if you want!).
I opened up the iplayer download manager on the laptop, and clicked on 'watch now'.
Imagine my utter horror, over-powering disappointment and sheer disbelief when I was greeted with the words:
'This programme has expired and will be deleted'
I can still hardly believe it.
No Dr Who for me.
From a quick check of the internet it appears this has been happening a lot with the iplayer. 'Teething problems' according to the BBC.
I'll just have to wait for a repeat.
And console myself with Primeval from last week which has definitely recorded and is waiting to be watched....
1 comment:
Stuart will completely feel your pain when he reads this, even though he's dead inside. Kylie was alright, nothing special in it. However, he is looking forward to Torchwood. We missed the first of Primeval on Saturday as he thought it started this week. So I think he wants to watch it this week on the internet (moving the sofa round to watch it on the computer, feels very unnatural). However, if there are problems with it he may want a copy of your copy, if that's possible.
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