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Big Brother 2004 on official YouTube channel (Live streamed Aug 29 -30 + Sept 6-7)

Someone asked this: @bigbrotherau, we understand that seasons can’t be uploaded in bulk but is there a plan to compromise and maybe upload a week every couple days or so? One ep per day for 500+ episodes is extreme

BB replied with "if there is an update it will be posted on social, for now, the live replay will be going into a playlist with timestamps in the description for navigation. that is the best we can do"
 
Will McDougle said:
Someone asked this: @bigbrotherau, we understand that seasons can’t be uploaded in bulk but is there a plan to compromise and maybe upload a week every couple days or so? One ep per day for 500+ episodes is extreme
BB replied with "if there is an update it will be posted on social, for now, the live replay will be going into a playlist with timestamps in the description for navigation. that is the best we can do"
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But yes - sounds like they might be keeping the live streams up in full for 2004, rather than individually, then putting the five 12-hour streams from this weekend and next into their own playlist. And 2003 will just continue to be uploaded once a day.
 
Watching 04 is so surreal to me. Visiting the house when I was a four year old is my earliest memory that I can recall and I can even picture myself walking through the house. Its the series I know what BB to be, I get that it doesn't really live up to the initial era but I think its one of the better seasons overall.
 
Like what happened with HMs from other seasons, 2004’s Igor and Ashalea are currently in the livestream chat.
 
So... this is the end of the first week and they've only skipped one episode, right? I'm trying to keep track on my phone while I'm doing other stuff, so I can put my captures together with the ones from @BigKevin 😄

Not actually a terrible start, considering they warned the "first few weeks" would have problems. Has the sound been OK?

Please, just let Eviction #5 and the finale be OK... anything else is just a bonus... please...

andrew_08 said:
I am shook that Catherine was my age. 😵‍💫
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I knowwwwww, Paul and Catherine seemed impossibly old when I originally watched this. I'm older than both of them now. 👵
 
dasnico said:
These days capping to drives (specifically SSDs) is common. Capping to DVDs was never really standard, but that would've been expensive even back then compared to tapes. HDDs (the ones that spin) and SSDs (solid state) would've been extremely more expensive than they are now in the mid 00's.
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Yeah I remember getting a 500GB HDD Maxtor brick thing with its own stand Power cable and thick USB cord in 2006 when I did an Audio course for backups and it was pricey, as with time and tech upgrades you can get passport sized SSD 1 and 2 TB for the vicinity of $70-$100 nowadays - same with Flash Drives/USB Sticks, 32GB and 64GB ones used to cost a lot.

Also in those days went through being able to fit more on a 300 minute VHS tape if you taped in Longplay, and had a DVD Recorder you could transfer from, then later you got the ones that had a hard drive in them you could also transfer to DVD. Anyways, Tangent lol.
jessy_girl said:
This also reminds me of in 2005 when every HM was told they may or may not be going in only to all find out on stage they were going in. I guess that creates some suspense for the HMs but it didn’t really add anything for the viewers so not sure why it was included in the launch, maybe could have just been done off screen. I feel like maybe the audience even knew everyone was going in?
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I think that was just getting them all together in the 'Waiting room' (which later became the Rewards Room) before letting them into the main house as well wasnt it.
 
jessy_girl said:
The secret was kind of anticlimactic for viewers I feel, but I guess it did change the dynamic a little bit and made winning more high stakes and for voters as well, even if the winner was pretty boring.
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also need to remember $1 Million was still a reasonably big deal back then. I remember the hype around when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire first started in the late 90's, and even when a couple other shows offered a similar amount of money. Contrast with inflation and all that today with the 1.2 million dollar homes being a median price point in certain areas, puts it into perspective. Indeed BBAU jumping from 250,000 to $1 Million was quite a thing. BBUK around this point had only just jumped from £70k to £100k iirc.

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Talking about the green kitchen last week, remember the orange bedroom with all that shag pile carpet quite a decor choice haha. The Diary room was really sleek. I think this was the first season where they had more of a proper airlock section between the house and the Diary room too.
 
Zcsund1234 said:
Watching 04 is so surreal to me. Visiting the house when I was a four year old is my earliest memory that I can recall and I can even picture myself walking through the house. Its the series I know what BB to be, I get that it doesn't really live up to the initial era but I think its one of the better seasons overall.
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My year in Australia overlapped with this season and I was so disappointed/underwhelmed compared to what I’d read about the 2003 season before I left.
 
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