Something "Amazing" I Found Out

Professor Brian Cox, or as every member of the female species refers to him "awwwwhhhhh", really has a great mind and can explain complex ideas simply using everyday household objects so mere mortals can understand the workings of the universe. Whilst being really good like this he is also rather repeatedly annoying because he describe almost everything as "amazing". That has to be said in his voice for it to really work. For example a normal phrase would go something like this: "The universe is big, immensely big, so big it's difficult to get your head around. And within that, are millions upon millions of galaxies with planets and stars whirling around in space and time. And it's amazing..."

Now I have to agree with him there, it is indeed amazing to be living in a universe of such complexity and we can understand with the power of maths and science how it all interacts. It's the not the use of the word, it's just that he uses it for literally everything. BBC Radio 4' "The Now Show" did a brilliant sketch to illustrate exactly the point I'm making here. Just go to You-Tub-E (say it like that, it's more fun) and search terms such as 'Brian Cox now show' or 'Brian Cox amazing' and you'll find it. It's worth the three minutes of you life trust me. Anyway enough of my rantings about one word said by one person.

VLC Media player. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's a piece of software that can play video or music files among others in that same way that iTunes or Windows Media Player does. Although one major difference is that VLC will actually play anything and everything. AVIs, MP3s, MKVs, children, DVDs, bananas, you name it and it can play it. At least that's what I thought up until last week. You see, after buying my 3D monitor and watching The Lion King 3D in full 1080p high definition I decided to make the move to Blu-ray and so I bought myself a Blu-ray drive along with the Jurassic Park Trilogy, Saw 3D and Drive Angry 3D. The 3D in both those fills I'm happy to report back is excellent and not gimmicky and really adds to the experience. So I plug in the drive and slip in Jurassic Park and open Windows Media Player only to find that it can't play. I didn't really expect it too so I open up trusty VLC and I was stunned to find that it couldn't play it either. I'd actually found something that VLC, with the worlds largest collection of codecs brought together in a simple program from out of chaos, coudln't play Blu-ray discs. It's amazing.