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Nathan Hickton

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Schools progs on DVD
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isn't it time that the beeb woke up to the fact that schools now have dvd players - well at least mine does!



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BillyH

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I don't know why they haven't released lovingly remastered versions of the classic stories yet!

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Ben Clarke

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The BBC did start putting out some DVD Plus Packs of their "most popular" schools programmes last year, mainly Revisewise and similar stuff. No Look & Reads have made it to the format (officially) yet though, not even the Spellits.

It's well over £50 for a single DVD, or a generous £320 for a sampler pack of different series. Do school budgets really stretch to much of this stuff these days?!

So Nathan, if you don't have any BBC discs, what do you watch on a school DVD player? Do they have a recorder as well to tape nature documentaries and stuff, or do you all just sit about watching the Teachers TV pilots? Or do you watch valuable educational programmes like Blackadder (that's what we always used to get shown by history teachers)?

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Nathan Hickton

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Look and Read is better than Revisewise (it helps me to sleep though in the spring when its on learning zone)



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Neil

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My primary school (which I attended 1986-1993) had only one TV & Video for all of three floors up until 1990 when another two turned up out of seemingly nowhere.  In addition to this, none of the teachers could work the damn thing, they all had to get somebody else!  Might explain why I never saw any L&R ever...


It's a strange thing I've noticed throughout my life to date - most people over 40 I know have no idea how to work a video player despite most of the units these days doing all the legwork - ie, switching on, auto-playing pre-recorded tapes, rewinding, ejecting and shutting off.  All you do is put the tape in.  Yet thats still far too complicated for some people.


Therefore, if the school was equipped with a DVD Player, I reckon they'd have loads of fun with it just trying to switch it on let alone watching any educational material that the Beeb has put onto DVD for them. I reckon its one of the reasons why schools programming on BBC Two and Channel 4 hasn't fully died yet. :)


Mind you, my secondary school was seemingly worse; I only ever remember seeing one TV/Video for the entire school of about 1200 kids which was fun.



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