Welcome to the VIP area - 2009 version

A little bit of history.

One lazy day, Mr SniffingBull started pushing buttons at the old ETV forum page and made a startling discovery. There was a shop which was to offer all sorts of goodies from Ipods holding all the multimedia stuff to a VIP membership system.

IIRC, for the wonderful price of only 1 euro a day (it sounds better that way) you would have exclusive access, via that wonderment of modern society, aka da internett, to sights that you could not see on the satellite. Of course it would still take Heiko to request that action by SMS. They even would give you a discount on pre-purchased SMSs.

Why that brilliant idea never took off I am a loss to understand.

You can just imagine the scene right now. Heiko is sat on his couch, potato salad is almost ready. Handy is to hand and a weiner in the other one. "I'll spice this up a bit" as the salad dressing threatens to arrive too early. "WTF. My pooter is not even in this room. By the time I kick the kids of facebook, my VIP request will be over"

Heiko now works out a plan. "I'll rig up my notebook. Must be careful tho as potato salad is not good for the keys so I can watch the tv and the pooter at the same time." "WTF. This VIP stream is so bad that it buffers every few seconds. Jeez. I missed that VIP request again"

So maybe back in 2006 they realised that the technology was against them. Strange thing. From where I stand, the technolgy is still against them. You may no longer have to fork out the 1 euro but you may still end up seeing as much as the rest of the viewers.