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Chill Out Zone on MTV Dance
subsurfing85
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I heard they've been airing Chill Out Zone all day on MTV Dance. Has anybody seen it? I was just wondering what tracks were on and if the graphics of the show were the same as back in the '90's...
www.mtv-chilloutzone.net.ms
www.mtv-chilloutzone.net.ms
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I'm sorry to dissapoint, but the standard MTV Dance devil graphics were in use throughout which weren't entirely suited to the music being shown.
It's also worth mentioning that 'The Comedown' on MTV (Sundays 4-6am!) is a sort of replacement for the old Chill Out Zone.
I didn't see much of it but I did see Soul II Soul, Rob Dougan, Bent, Etienne de Crecy...
Yep Tom, I know about The Comedown. It's basically the same thing as the Chill Out Zone. Besides, it has no proper graphics, so I'd still call it Chill Out Zone (as you can see on my website), where I just added a couple of playlists from MTV UK's COZ).
Hopefully MTV Dance brings back the show to their regular schedules, I think we need at least a weekly 2 hour fix, right like back in the day.
I've had a look on your website and noticed that the European MTV channels still value Chill Out Zone to the point where they still have their own graphics.
I've noticed that Party Hard/The Comedown has only been showing sunday mornings over the last few weeks, whereas it's always been listed as being on saturdays too.
I've emailed MTV, but no joy... :rolleyes:
You can see the show's old graphics on MTV France, MTV Italia, MTV Brand: New (one of the best MTV channels worldwide... available only in Italy though
On MTV European and MTV Portugal they've had new graphics since some time in 2003 and quite honestly, they suck big time. Or better said, they wouldn't suck so bad if they hadn't had such great ones before. Nothing compares to the '90's ones.
Did you (or anyone) see any of The Big Chill Zone on VH1 UK during the summer? (Late Saturday night) This had some excellent tracks on it, and in my opinion showed more variety than The Comedown! I hope this comes back again this summer.
Your website is very good, and particularly useful for track listings!
The old Chill Out Zone graphics do look very good too!
Thanks for the nice words about my website. Watch out, as massive updates are coming pretty soon...
Oh, and if you need anything, just drop me a line, you know where to find my addy. Later dude!
They had a great varity of videos too - from Royksopp, Nightmares on Wax and Lemon Jelly to Robert Miles, The Streets and Chicane. Plus the usual chillout favourites - Air, Massive Attack, Zero 7 etc.
then you will get:
MTV Central - plently of music shown in day
MTV France - Partyzone,chilloutzone
MTV ESP - Partyzone,chilloutzone
VH1 e - Partyzone,chilloutzone
VH1 Classic e
MTV2 Europe
MTV 2 POP - good for dance
TMF NL - good for dance
MTV Hits
MTV Base
plus other good channels like Trace TV,MCM,VIVA Plus
and these channels are in english aparts from the ads!!
you could be viewing all this for under £100!! which is free forever!!
But its a shame that you don't here music like this anymore in this country :mad:
Anyway , nice site now I might point my dish at 16e for MTV Italy because that seems to be the best for the chilloutzone
I've got a DVB on an 80cm dish pointing at Astra 19.2e, but I'm only getting MTV Central, MTV2POP, Viva and Viva2, what am i doing wrong? Where is MTV France and Hits and Base and TMF NL?
It does seem odd that VH1 would put something so adventurous as the Big Chill into it's schedule!
It's a shame that some of these videos don't get aired more often because so much effort has been put into the making of some of them!
I will definately look into your idea James, thanks for that!
Ahhhhh, got it! But is there a way of emulating the package using a DVB receiver instead of a PCI card?
Its a TechniSat DigiBox 1. How did you put the patch on to your receiver? Did you download it from the net? But then how do you get that from your computer to the receiver?
I use the RS232 Port then send a file to the reciever. Ask on other sat forums the problem is most info on the net is in german for TechniSat but not for my SkyStar2
Dont forget the foreign MTVs!!! (In English apart from ads)
MTV Central Europe and MTV2POP hardly show any on screen logos and both of these channels are FTA!!!
You could buy of a FTA digital reciever or use a sky box and get a 43cm dish pointed at Astra1 19.2e then view these channels free forever !!!!!!!
And its hardly expensive I got hold of analogue box and dish lidl for £20 or get a new digital system for around £60
Great info, cheers James, I'll let you know how it goes (probably worth even buying a new receiver if i cant find a patch for the technisat).
Gotta agree with the other person though, the MTV UK are awful now.........i'm ashamed to say i watch the EMAP ones and Chart Show tv.
Yep, the German MTVs (MTV Central and MTV2POP - they're both FTA) are really good because they only have one dog on air, AND they show a completely different playlist from the UK MTV/EMAP channels which are obviously tied to the UK chart rotation. Shame they dont have any live shows.
Does MTV European still have the live afternoon show at 4pm (i think its from the Camden studio isn't it - presented by an English guy - i THINK it was called MTV Select..........NOTHING to do with the old MTV Select we used to have on MTV UK).
MTV France aint bad either from what i remember - but they only have 1 live show a week (called Mercredi 16H, every wednesday afternoon).
I tend to find that the Emap channels have the most on screen graphics these days. The track selection text at the bottom, animation top right (usually the text in number), and DOG (sometimes animated) top left.
I do find MTV Dance's 'devil' DOG annoying because of the way it animates. The current identity has given the channel a much tackier image in my view. I couldn't see much wrong with the old graphics used in the 'Your Resident DJ' days.
I remember Mercredi 16H with that french guy it was some interview show it was good to watch even when I don't speek french! You don't see him as much and all you see on MTV F now is MTV Select with some fat guy!!
But don't get me wrong it beats MTV UK any day! There are far more VJ's on MTV European channels and on MTV UK all you get is some women saying TRL is next (lol)