One interesting thing that they mentioned in the end credits - if you subscribe to Sky Movies then you can download the films onto your PC free of charge from their website. I haven't tried it out yet, but I think the idea has potential, as a rival to dodgy downloads. It does involve DRM, with a 30 day time limit on the films you download, but they've done it in a sensible way (downloading the entire thing rather than streaming it), and I think the idea is that while you're a Sky customer you can access their entire back catalog of films rather than waiting for the appropriate one to be shown on TV. Anyway, I'll report back on that later.
On a completely different subject, one thing I've been thinking about at football matches recently is the way that goals are announced. It typically goes like this:
Tannoy: "And that was a goal by Freddy Krueger. Freddy..."
Crowd: "KREUGER!"
That's fine for short names, but I'd be amused to see how well it would work for players with longer names. E.g.
Tannoy: "And that was a goal by Dilip Balasubramaniam. Dilip..."
Crowd: "Bala... Balsu... DILIP!"
(I've borrowed that surname from a girl I went to Durham with - it took me a bit of practice before I could pronounce it properly.)
