Re:New Knightmare clip!
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It would certainly make a welcome change!
The only reasons, IMHO, that Televirtual has left out the HoJ ETC is either
A) To avoid their new game system being typecast as ONLY the 'new Knightmare'...
B) There may still be some residual copyright issues kicking around (Anglia hanging on to the dregs of the rights or possibly Challenge? due to the repeat showings of the original programme).
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I don't think Anglia (Granada now, I think) have any outstanding claim on the format of the programme. The same goes for Challenge (who have only licensed the made programmes for transmission - Granada DO have the rights to those but not to the format). Regarding typecasting, it has been made explicitally clear that it's Km VR Development. You can't typecast much more than that!
Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing a horned helmet again. Little idiosyncracies like that give a show character.
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I recently visited the Knightmare VR News section of the Televirtual website and found that there are two more video clips available for download, alongside the original causeway scene.
They are entitled "The Return of Lord Fear" and "Despair Encounter" and they can both be downloaded from the news page at http://televirtual.com/news2.htm. Both of them look quite interesting!
Are these two videos new? I haven't been to the Televirtual website for a while, so I'm not sure how recently it was updated and I apologise if they have already been pointed out. However, I couldn't find mention of them on the forum, so I thought I'd speak up anyway!
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These two new clips are really good!
Lord Fear looks scary and like he used too but not sure about Lissard. Do we know who did the voices (Mark Knight, Cliff Barry)?
On to clip two. I take it this new wall monster is a bit like the Doors from Series 4. As for his voice- what about the bloke who plays Bernard Scripps in Heartbeat? He also seems quite like Marvin the Paranoid Android from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side"
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I'm not sure who did the voices for the characters, but they do sound quite similar to Mark Knight and Cliff Barry. Still, it's good to see evidence of the good ol' saracastic humour and banter between Lord Fear and Lissard!
As for the second clip, the wall monster voice does sound like Bernard Scripps (Peter Benson) from Heartbeat... the monster itself is also reminiscent of the depressed Gargoyle from Series 1 & 2 of Knightmare!
The old gargoyles and this new "Despair" monster do sound a bit like Marvin... I half expect them to suddenly say "I think you ought to know, I'm feeling very depressed..."!
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This is absolute torture! I haven't seen anything of this KMVR stuff in motion. Lord Fear and Lissard clips? I'll just assume it's good.
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Are you trying to view them in WinAmp? If so you might be having the same problem as me. Do you have Real Player? What I did was click on the first clip link, which automatically downloaded to one of my temporary internet file folders and when finished it started WinAmp, but for some reason I couldn't get anything. So I looked at the properties for the folder destination and then opened Real Player and tried to open the file there, but that didn't seem to work either. So I right clicked on the first link again and clicked on Save target as and chose a suitable destination. When it finished downloading I opened Real Player and opened the downloaded file there. It gave me an Illegal operation message, so I tried again and it worked. So I then downloaded the other two.
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I have already downloaded them, but I couldn't get them to play. I haven't tried all that stuff yet Moana, so I'll give it another go.
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Just a breif post to state that Televirtual have added another clip:
http://televirtual.com/news2.htm
Note the text has changed. Gone is the designed as two 10-12 minute slots and in its place is...
Televirtual now intends to deliver downloadable sequences to this development section, so that interested parties may explore the workings and potential of this new entertainment form. In any case, decisions as to the final form will inevitably be left to the broadcasters.
The latest entity, as demonstrated, is configured as a children's show. It is just as likely that this exercise will result in family or adult entertainment.
So knightmare of old fans there is still a possibility to play the new version.
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