Look Around You DVD

The makers of Look Around You have been com­mis­sio­ned by the BBC to pro­duce a Depen­da­ble Video Dis­cus (‘DVD’) of the series.

This is the first time this pro­cess has been applied to the mar­ket place and the tech­no­logy is somewhat in its infancy, hence each ‘DVD’ mea­su­res appro­xi­ma­tely 70 inches in dia­me­ter and weighs around 600 kilo­gram­mes. Howe­ver it is hoped that, within time, each dis­cus will be small enough and light enough to be carried by two men.

The ‘DVD’ pla­yer is often limi­ted by regio­nal set­tings. The unit pic­tu­red above will work only in Lincolnshire.

Each ‘DVD’, manu­fac­tu­red from rein­for­ced lead, con­tains all the expe­ri­men­tal data, both aural and visual, from the popu­lar science series, Look Around You.

Further­more, each dis­cus con­tains a num­ber of addi­tio­nal fea­tu­res — a dou­ble length 20 minute module, Cal­cium; the pro­gramme makers’ com­men­tary; the full length pop video to the smash hit pop song ‘Little Mouse’ and edu­ca­tio­nal and infor­ma­tive pages from Ceefax.

In short, it’s everything the modern science stu­dent could hope for.

Look Around You