User talk:JuliusMacedonia
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Don't worry about your previous entry; it's totally fine. No one here thinks you're a bad person or anything like that. Within a short period of time, the thread will rotate out of "Recent Forum Activity" and be forgotten.
As a matter of pure administration, I needed to close the thread before it attracted people who posted links contrary to T:VID LINK. See, if they violate T:VID LINK by doing what they think is the helpful act of simply answering your question, then I'm obligated to block them. T:VID LINK offers no wiggle room, nor can it do so.
So I'd rather just not give people enough rope to hang themselves, yanno? Best just to close the thread and move on.
If it makes you feel any better, though, you're really not missing much. Aside from RP/BBV factual documentaries — specifically Myth Makers — there's nothing much of great value in their offerings. The audios are particularly bad, as compared with Big Finish stuff. And their video fiction is best forgotten.
Though massively important to the video-starved fans of the late 1990s, BBV today is best thought of as a curious back alley of the DWU. You may be interested to know that there is a wiki dedicated to their content at w:c:bbv. Because interest in BBV has naturally plummeted in the wake of the various BBC Wales series, it hasn't been particularly well-tended of late. But it still might be interesting to you.
I should stress again that you can buy most of these videos, still. It's not cheap, but if you're willing to put out $20-30 a piece, you can find sellers. Sometimes, they even come up on Amazon, as with Winterborne. Mostly, though, you have to go to specialist places.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:44: Tue 08 Jul 2014
- By the way, this link should probably be your first port of call in trying to track these things down: http://www.timelash.com/tardis/search.asp?string=BBV&x=-1385&y=-115
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:52: Tue 08 Jul 2014
