Pop-up video

The groups and singles are old news, the constant 'popping' noise over the videos is nothing short of annoying and the facts are brain dead. But it's one of my favourite music shows, I just can't get enough. Whether that's because I can just veg out while my daughter is asleep for 1/2 hour or because it's so easy going, I don't know. My inital opinion of it was just to turn channels but one day after flicking through my useless set of channels half a dozen times I finally decided to give it a go. I couldn't wait for it to come on the next day. Shown on VH1 it's a music video show that plays the videos from mainly ...  Read the complete review

Channel 4's late night 'Pop-Up Video' show is an interesting show that basically devises a theme, then looks into the vaults of new and old music videos, picks a small batch of them, then presents them on screen with 'pop-up' info, like pop-up help menus on computers. This is a cool show! It's nice seeing new videos too, but it's really nice just seeing old videos that time has forgot, and the artist info's that pop-up aren't all that obvious, so they are pretty interesting and informative. There are times when the info displayed can be annoying when you want to see a video unobtrusively, and without the subtle bubble-pop sound, ...  Read the complete review

I happen to quite like Pop-Up-Video. I used to watch it all the time last summer on VH1 (where it's on at around lunchtime), and I think it's popped up (ho ho ho) on terrestrial tv too. Basically, it plays a few videos (it tends to be older stuff, from what I can remember, but this could have just been the run they were doing at the time) and has little Pop-Up boxes telling you interesting (or not so interesting) facts about the song. I think this is a good idea, and the show can be geniunely amusing. My Mum hates it though. She always picks up the little blooping noise that the pop-up boxes make, and it drives her mad. But if you can put up with ...  Read the complete review