Happy birthday Mike!

[flick]

(Poor thing had a migraine....)

Today, I have mostly been playing silly iPhone games. However, I did also pick a few tomatoes (the ripening has slowed down now the sun's vanished again), switch the conservatory back from "summer living room" to "potting shed with sofa" mode, pot on some plug plants that arrived yesterday, rake up the clippings from when Mike strimmed the orchard last week, strew some yellow rattle seed around the place, pick some blackberries, and had a chap come around to quote for replacing the remaining bits of knackered fence. Ok, maybe not entirely useless.

This evening, we watched half of an X-Men DVD Bluray that I got Mike for his birthday. We probably would have watched more, but first it demanded that we download a software update, then it made us play an un-skippable trailer (presumably being able to do so was the reason for the update), then the remote control went a bit weird and kept doing slow-motion rewinding (it's done this before, but never so frequently), and then it got stuck in Spanish, with subtitles. So it took us a while to actually start watching it.... Possibly the DVD would have been a better bet?

Comments

[flick]

We're quite hopeful about the Amazon Prime download thing, although we'll presumably need an Apple TV.

[andrewducker]

I don't think their offline watching supports the Apple TV. Just iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. Which is a bit rubbish.

I'm not even sure if it supports their own "Stick"!

[flick]

Apple TV runs iOS, so it *should* work. Not sure. And Prime > iTunes as we're already paying for Prime!

[andrewducker]

Actually, doesn't iTunes allow you to download things and watch them anyway?

(Although the Apple TV is now rather out of date, presumably there's a refresh coming at some point.)