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The BBC’s iPlayer volume goes to 11… what don’t you understand about that?


Saturday, July 5, 2008

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.

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4 Responses to “The BBC’s iPlayer volume goes to 11… what don’t you understand about that?”


  1. brandon m. Says:
    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.

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    July 19th, 2008 at 5:23 am

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  3. andy Says:
    September 9th, 2008 at 4:41 am

    my laptops only got a tiny speaker so im well pleased with some extra volume ;) exellent !!

  4. TURN IT UP TO 11 | Get off the Bandwagon Blog Says:
    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. [...]

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