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About Me...Updated 21st August 2007
Well, the first basic thing about me is that my name is Dom Robinson,
I'm 35, I hail from the city of Manchester, that's me on the right from
some time ago and no I don't associate with the "Mad Fer It" Gallagher
brothers, even though I once worked not far from their home town of Burnage.
I first started using the Internet in October 1990 while studying for a degree in Computer Science and Management Science at Keele University. While there I regularly visited Cheeseplants, Foothills and then The Talker. I came out with a 2(ii) and some would wonder why I've got a top-secret job in government (ok, so it's not top secret at all :), but while I'd much fancy a job doing what I do as a hobby on a daily basis - writing reviews and developing my knowledge of HTML - finding a job which trains you in HTML as you go is as rare as finding a needle in a haystack, since many jobs expect you to know it all first. After leaving in June 1993, it wasn't until nearly a year later when I started my music chart analysis online, after having to take four months off work due to my Aortic Valve Replacement operation. I had sweet F.A. to do while sitting twiddling my thumbs and in addition, compiled a complete list of all available widescreen videos, which was later published in What Video from January 1995 for three months in separate parts. A reprint was due in Home Cinema Choice in November 1996, also featuring a list of all available PAL widescreen Laserdiscs and an article, "The Whys of Widescreen", describing why those black bars on your TV are 100% necessary. In the same month, I had two brief reviews of two widescreen videos, Nikita and Platoon stating why they're best seen in widescreen, and detailing a couple of "killer scenes", twenty snippets of trivia and supplied all the aspect ratios in Home Entertainment's The Wide Ones supplement. In October 1998, I wrote an article for Home Cinema Choice, comparing three home-cinema "surround-sound solution" speaker packages from Boston Acoustics, Philips and Yamaha. More recently I have had an article published in the October 1999 issue of Home Entertainment all about the pleasures and pitfalls of buying DVDs on the internet. I have also compiled a list of all available UK PAL region 2 DVDs, which is online HERE and update my reviews, of which there are over 620 DVDs and over 50 games, on a daily basis. (See the left-hand column for the various reviews pages) In April 2001 I appeared in an episode of Right to Reply reporting on ONdigital and the piracy of their smartcards, a review of my experience of which can be found HERE. I thoroughly enjoyed the experienced and worked with some fantastic people on the day (recorded Wed April 4th and broadcast Fri April 6th), but sadly Channel 4's deputy commissioning editor, Francesca O'Brien, made a grave error by cancelling the show after 18 long years, with no chance of a substitute, claiming that there was no need for such a programme because there's so many channels about, but if you ask me there IS a need for such a show because of the same reason! After appearing under the London Calling and SonicState banners, I now have my very own site in DVDfever.co.uk. The music chart analysis continues apace, there's a listing of the latest films showing at Showcase Cinema, Manchester as well as film reviews.As of February 2007, there are also reviews of PC, Playstation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360 games and those of older consoles including the Dreamcast and the original Playstation.
DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier. PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
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