Acquisition
Batches 12 130:00/478.4426671× I'm writing this at the end of June. The blog has been live for a month now. After writing too far ahead at one point (I had seven weeks of posts scheduled to go live) I've reached a point where
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AI AI Oh Pt 10:00/488.1706671×AI AI Oh Pt 20:00/501.7386671×Batch 110:00/80.4481× I find AI fascinating. That's partly because I grew up on classic science fiction (so I've always thought that machine intelligence was inevitable), partly because
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I Feel Like A Spy0:00/494.0586671× I have mentioned previously that I bought three editions of the Great African Films series (Volumes 2, 3 and 4) and being a completist knew that I would need to track down copies of 1 and 5. I’d set up eBay
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Batches 7 8 90:00/246.7626671× My acquisition strategy so far has pretty much been "buy what I can". Not because I have money to burn but because I wanted to have enough discs available to be able to actually start blogging this. (The planning stage of
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Batch 60:00/292.0746671× Quite a frustrating search this time, because Copilot didn't seem to want to suggest anything useful. I kept throwing countries at it for it to check to see what's available only to get bizarre replies along the lines of "x,
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Final 1950:00/284.5653331× Because I am doing this in a variety of ways (sometimes I shop from work on my phone, other times I’m on a PC, others again I’m on a tablet) I am constantly double-checking to make sure I’m not making a
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Going Wronger0:00/499.6053331× As the orders from the first three batches started slowly to trickle in, I realised that if I was being serious about blogging this project then I needed to order more. (Lots more in the long run, obviously, but in order to have a working
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Its All Going A Bit Wrong0:00/321.0881× I have hit difficulties. Somehow, one of the AIs had branded the film Scales as being from Pakistan. It’s not. It’s from Saudi Arabia. But it did mean that I was trying to find a film from Saudi when
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What Im Doing0:00/247.6161× The last post was my review of the entertaining Viva Riva!, so this is probably a good place to pause and discuss my reviews and my style. I am not writing DVD reviews. These are not discussions about whether or not you should buy
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Batch Two0:00/579.2213331× This is the actual conversation I had with Copilot while trying to look for the next load of discs. (I have edited only to remove a lot of Copilot’s waffle.) Me: I have an extra £50 spare. Here's the full list of
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And So It Begins0:00/193.2586671× When ChatGPT first said that this project was actually possible, it helped me by listing the 30 countries that might prove the most difficult to source. Copilot (secretly employed by Big DVD) expanded the list from 193 countries (and two observer states, whatever
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Alfred Hitchcock Changed My Life0:00/233.1093331× I was born in ’75 so I’m the tail end of Gen X. Growing up in the UK in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s was very different to life today: no internet, no mobiles, no streaming, no cable TV. There were