TV World

Anybody know any details about this site:
http://home.clara.net/jim.edwards/

I can't access any of the videos, but it looks as if there are numerous good videos on the site.

I know that a video from the site was uploaded onto youtube, but has since been removed. I haven't seen any of the videos.

Well it hasn't been "officially" updated since October 2001, but that was when TV Ark wasn't huge, no YouTube, and there were plenty of small pres sites like that at the time.

Most clips have been offline for about 5 years now or so, but the site is still online. The vast majority of the clips are very low quality (but that was the best you could get to download on a 56K modem) and the majority of clips on the site are available nearly everywhere else.

Certainately my favourite pres site in 2000, but that was when I had a far slower PC and a 56K connection, the download times were very reasonable.

Where can you see the clips from the website, elsewhere on the web?

I didn't mean actual TV World captured clips, I mean that stuff like for instance 'BBC1 ident from 1985', would be available on other pres sites. Believe me, the clips are all very low tech.

Oh I was thinking more of the news from ITV and BBC. Also BBC Breakfast from 2000 when they were in the sofa sets etc.

TV World was a fantastic site. Like nwtv2003 said, the quality of the clips was abysmal, but that's what we were all used to back then. We didn't really know any different. I do miss those days. While YouTube makes it a lot easier for people to upload their videos, I miss the dedicated TV Pres websites. I'm glad that TV Ark and The TV Room are still going - it will be a sad day when either of those close down.

The owner did update it a year or so ago stating he'd be updating the site soon. Nothing since. It was the first TV pres site I ever found when I googled images for "Sky 1 1996" and an image came up linking to that. Ahh, memories...

I did email Jim a few times back in the late 90s, very friendly man. I think it was down to personal family commitments for the lack of updates in the end and like anything, the longer you leave it, the harder it is to get back into the stride of doing a website.

As people are saying, the quality is awful these days, I still have a few clips stored on my hard drive and the size of the real player screen is the size of a postage stamp, if you risked anything bigger or clearer back then, you had to run the risk of very high file sizes and in the days before broadband, it wasn't a wise thing to do.

Hard to believe that this time 10 years ago, my average download speed on dial up was 3k a second

I see my old site is top of the links page