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Kangaroo to become See-Saw (Allegedly)

(May 2008)

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HC
Hatton Cross
Kangaroo is an awful name, and so is seesaw - means nothing, but atleast it's not a psudo Latin word (like Contengenus).
But then I thought 'Orange' was a rubbish name for a mobile phone company, and still do.

It has to be something short and catchy but both computer and television based. i>player is out (as ITV and 4 won't want the project to take the name so intrenched with a BBC application) so what about...

PCTV ?
SP
Steve in Pudsey
PCTV could get mixed up with the abysmal Pinnacle PCTV capture cards/software
CO
Connews
Steve in Pudsey posted:
PCTV could get mixed up with the abysmal Pinnacle PCTV capture cards/software


I anticipate it would be quite a common misconception in British society, Steve.Rolling Eyes
IS
Inspector Sands
Hatton Cross posted:
Kangaroo is an awful name, and so is seesaw - means nothing,


It does, it's the present tense and the past tense of the verb to see!

Think it's quite clever myself
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
Hatton Cross posted:
Kangaroo is an awful name, and so is seesaw - means nothing,


It does, it's the present tense and the past tense of the verb to see!

Think it's quite clever myself


Me too.
JO
Joe
Hatton Cross posted:
PCTV ?

Crap.
JR
jrothwell97
[quote="Hatton Cross" PCTV ?[/quote]

Sounds like a 1980s IBM operating system. Or the PC/AT form factor.

Either way, that's a rubbish idea. And now the 'seesaw' thing has been explained, I think it's quite clever.
NG
noggin Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
Hatton Cross posted:
Kangaroo is an awful name, and so is seesaw - means nothing,


It does, it's the present tense and the past tense of the verb to see!

Think it's quite clever myself


Yep - makes sense to me and I quite like the play on words.

Not as good as "Making the unmissable unmissable" - which is a great tagline for the iPlayer.
ST
Stuart
Paul Clark posted:
The 'See Saw' I associated the BBC was the Children's programming slot circa the 1980s, so naturally, my first reaction was that it sounds a bit too childish - but I don't think it's really any worse than 'Kangaroo'.

My first thought too, but the simplest names are the best. Ceefax ('see facts') out-lived Oracle for that very reason.

SeeSaw sounds OK. It's a shame they can't all adopt the BBC's iPlayer name - despite its unfortunate similarity to Apple's product names.
NG
noggin Founding member
StuartPlymouth posted:
My first thought too, but the simplest names are the best. Ceefax ('see facts') out-lived Oracle for that very reason.


Not strictly true - Oracle lost the IBA/ITC Teletext franchise for ITV during the 1992 Franchise round didn't they?

Oracle wasn't renamed Teletext, rather the "Teletext UK" team beat the Oracle team for the national ITV teletext franchise.
IS
Inspector Sands
Woah everyone, SeeSaw isn't even the final name: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/13/television.digitalmedia
IS
Inspector Sands
noggin posted:
StuartPlymouth posted:
My first thought too, but the simplest names are the best. Ceefax ('see facts') out-lived Oracle for that very reason.


Not strictly true - Oracle lost the IBA/ITC Teletext franchise for ITV during the 1992 Franchise round didn't they?

Oracle wasn't renamed Teletext, rather the "Teletext UK" team beat the Oracle team for the national ITV teletext franchise.


Yep, 'Oracle' would have lived on if it wasn't for that.

It was quite a good name - an Oracle is an infallible wise authority - and easy to remember, although it was an acronym (probably more a backronym)

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