Radio Times website
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Do you remember how we were all told, a few years ago, about the wonderful idea of 'convergence'? Your tv and you computer would soon blur into on single device, with shared content, better pictures, more handsome actors and on converged tv it would always be sunny.
Me too, and although it still hasn't really arrived yet (YouTube doesn't count) one thing that has changed is the notion of a tv guide. 10 years ago a 'tv guide' was a paper thing you bought every week, which told you what your tv would be doing for the next seven days. Today 'tv guide' is a button on your remote which does some of the same things, only slower.
So what of the humble paper tv guide? There is still a case for combining all of a days viewing opportunities at once, and my favourite is the Radio Times site.
Simple, quick, aesthetically refined. It feels rich with live information but not cluttered. Perhaps the adverts are a bit awkward, but that's probably not the designer's fault.
Who needs convergence?
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posted by Malcolm Garrett
on 04 December 2007
Layout
I like the fact that it immediately gets away from the standard 3 column format that most magazine websites adopt. I gues that's because it's the BBC and they're obviously not so constrained about providing standard slots for advertisers.