I know we’re all busy, but are we too busy to notice that the volume on the Flash video player the BBC uses actually goes to 11? Since I’m almost positive there’s no reasonable explanation for this, I can only assume it’s an homage to Spinal Tap — which is totally bodacious. Seriously, check it out.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:46 am
I’m convinced that media players that go all the up to 11 are the way forward. This proves that the BBC are so far ahead of the game right now.
July 19th, 2008 at 5:23 am
[...] The BBC’s iPlayer volume goes to 11 [...]
September 9th, 2008 at 4:41 am
my laptops only got a tiny speaker so im well pleased with some extra volume
exellent !!
September 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am
[...] it has been around for a while now (Joshua Topolsky wrote about it here), we’ve just noticed that the volume control on the BBC’s iPlayer goes up to 11. [...]
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Why don’t they just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:01 am
Mark,
No, you don’t get it. This control is one more than 10. It goes up to 11. D’you see? One better than 10. 1 louder.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Fuck off Jon Kingsbury
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
the best homage to spinal tap, its brilliant
October 11th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Actually it does have a function. Digital 100% volume is the maximum at which no matter what the stored audio is, it’s not going to distort. 11 gives you a little extra welly, at the expense of distorting on loud passages, which thankfully seldom happens. And yes it obviously comes from Spinal Tap ; )
January 15th, 2010 at 11:47 am
I have a valid question at this point..Are we still going to do Stonehenge tonight ?