Title: On The Other Hand
Series: Chronicle
Writer: P E Leody
SYNOPIS: THE CONFLICT OF DECISIONS THAT DRIVES OUR SURVIVAL
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NARRATOR: GREAT BRITAIN, HOME OF THE TOM BAKER VOICE OVER AND THE LAST BASTION OF THE CLASS SYSTEM. IT WASN'T ALWAYS LIKE THIS ONCE THE CLASS SYSTEM WAS THE ROCK OF THE EMPIRE. YOU COULD NOT CROSS THE DIVIDES. THEN THE ROMANS LEFT AND IT TOOK NEARLY 1500 YEARS TO GET THE SYSTEM BACK ON TRACK. JUST AS IT LOOKED LIKE THINGS COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE ALONG CAME THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE DIVIDE EXPANDED.
NARRATOR: GOLDEN GOOSE OF THE REVOLUTION WAS THE RAILWAY SYSTEM WHICH WAS DIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT REGIONS.
NARRATOR: THE CONCEPT OF TRAVELLING CROSS COUNTRY WAS SUDDENLY A VIABLE ADVENTURE. THE WORLD WAS OPENING IT'S DOORS TO TOURISTS AND VISITORS
NARRATOR: SO IN COMPETITION WERE THESE REGIONS THAT THEY DIDN'T EVEN BUILD THE SAME GAUGE TRACK. YOU HAD TO LITERALLY CHANGE TRAINS AT THE STATIONS ON THE REGION BOUNDARIES
NARRATOR: EVENTUALLY SENSE WON THE DAY AND THE GOVERNMENT BROUGHT TIT ALL UNDER IT'S UMBRELLA, PUBLIC TRANSPORT FOR THE MASSES
NARRATOR: THERE WAS THEN A HUGE PUNNING CEREMONY WHICH RELEASED MANY LINES TO BE CONVERTED INTO CYCLE PATHS
NARRATOR: THEN IT WAS SPLIT OFF AGAIN TO GORGE MORE CATS THEN THE TALK WAS OF REUNITING IT, BY THIS TIME THE PUBLIC WAS FULL OF NOSTALGIA FOR THE SLAM DOOR STOCK
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NARRATOR: SO PROGRESS CAN BE JERKY, TECHNOLOGY IS EQUALLY AS UNPREDICTABLE. WHEN HOME VIDEO SET OFF THERE WAS THE GRUNT VHS, THE DOUBLE SIDED VIDEO 2000 AND THE CUTE BETAMAX
NARRATOR: THERE WERE NO MEGASTORES JUST A HUMBLE SHOP IN LONDON THAT WENT ON TO PRODUCE FILMS. YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY WAS THE BEST BET, HAVING TO STOCK 3 COPIES OF THE SAME THING ON DIFFERENT FORMATS. NO ONE SAW IT AS A FORMAT WARS, THERE WERE NO IR REMOTES, HAVING A TIMER WAS EXTRA, THERE WERE 8 TUNABLE CHANNELS AND ONLY 3 TV STATIONS.
NARRATOR: RUMOUR HAS IT WAS THE VCR RENTAL MARKET (USED TO HAVE SHOPS IN THE HIGH STREET), CHOSE A FORMAT SO IT PREVAILED, OTHERS SAY THE PORN INDUSTRY SWUNG IT. HELL THERE WERE NO RATINGS, IT WAS WILD OUT THERE
NARRATOR: SO IT ALL WENT GLOBAL, HUGE RENTAL MEGASTORES, THEN THE SMALL DURABLE OPTICAL DISK, THEN THE MAIL ORDER RENTAL CRUSHED THEM YET SOME SAY BETAMAX WAS BETTER, VINYL WAS BETTER, VALVES WERE BETTER
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NARRATOR: TELEVISION OUR GREATEST FRIEND AND WHOLESOME MENTOR WAS DEVELOPED IN QUITE A DIFFERENT WAY INTO WHAT IT IS NOW. A DESIGN THAT CAN ONLY BE SEEN AS NON-SCABLE LED THE WAY WHILST IT'S CHALLENGE WAS A DISTANT RELATIVE OF WHAT SITS ON YOU LIVING ROOM TODAY
NARRATOR: THE BBC RAN BOTH SYSTEMS SIMULTANEOUSLY AND YOU HAD TO CHOOSE WHICH INCOMPATIBLE SYSTEM YOU PREFERRED. THE CURRENT SYSTEM WON BY DEFAULT WHEN THE OTHERS'S STUDIO BURNT DOWN
NARRATOR: AFTER AND UPGRADE FROM 425 TO 625 LINES, FROM MONO TO STEREO FROM CORDED REMOTES TO IR, FROM 4:3 TO 16:9, ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL, SUDDENLY THERE IS A FORMAT WAR BETWEEN PLASMA AND LCD
NARRATOR: AND THE CHOICE OF PROVIDER, SATELLITE, TERRESTRIAL BY CABLE
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NARRATOR: IN WARS IT IS NOT ALWAYS THE MOST WORTHY, THE BEST, THE CHEAPEST, THE ORIGINAL, THE MOST RELIABLE OR EARLY STARTER THAT WINS. THE WINNER IS JUST THE ONE THAT WINS
NARRATOR: WHO CAN FORGET THE BLU-RAY HD-DVD FORMAT SPAT THAT DESCENDED INTO THE WORLD BEING REDRAWN AS 2 SEPARATE CONTINENTS, THE FIRST FORMAT CIVIL WAR
NARRATOR: WE HAVE LEFTY GOVERNMENT THEN THE RIGHT, AD INFINITUM, EACH BEING TOPPLED BY THE VOTERS DISTASTE IN TAXES, SCANDAL OR BOREDOM. IT SWINGS BACK AND FORTH SO MUCH SO THAT ACTUAL GRASS ROOTS POLICY DON'T HAVE TIME TO GROW
NARRATOR: THERE ARE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WHICH WAY A TOILET ROLL SHOULD BE HUNG, BY THE SAME PEOPLE THAT ARGUE WHETHER THEY LOOK OR NOT AND WHETHER THEY DOUBLE UP OR RUB
NARRATOR: NICE LITTLE TERRACE HOUSE, KNOCKED DOWN FOR FLATS, KNOCKED DOWN FOR HOUSES
NARRATOR: THEN THERE'S THE OLDE TEMPORARY INTERPRETATION OF THE POULTRY AND THE CALCIUM SPHEROID MALARKEY
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NARRATOR: SO WE'VE SEEN DIFFERENCES IN TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES ARE HOTLY DISPUTED
NARRATOR: NO ONE'S GONE TO WAR OVER SUCH TEETHING DIFFERENCES, BAR THE FORMAT CIVIL WARS, DOCUMENTED IN *WHICH CIVIL WAR*, FACTIONS JUST GO THEIR OWN WAY
NARRATOR: LOOK AT HOW THEY PROMOTE EVOLUTION, ONE STRAND KEEPS THE NORMAL POPULATION AND EXORCISE THE FREAKS
NARRATOR: THE OTHER KEEPS THE FREAKS AND EXORCISES THE ORDINARIES
NARRATOR: WE'VE NO IDEA WHAT KEEPING THE NORMAL SPECIMENS PRODUCES
NARRATOR: BUT WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU JUST BREED FROM THE FREAKS
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