:00:00. > :00:10.A UKIP MEP is suspended after calling a roomful of female party
:00:10. > :00:13.members sluts. Godfrey Bloom made the comments at
:00:13. > :00:22.the party's conference, to the fury of his leader. I made a joke and
:00:22. > :00:25.said, you are all sluts, and everybody laughed, including all of
:00:25. > :00:33.the women. What are you trying to make of this? We cannot have any one
:00:33. > :00:36.individual destroying UKIP's National conference, and that is
:00:36. > :00:38.what he has done today. We'll look at whether this will
:00:38. > :00:39.affect the party's growing popularity.
:00:39. > :00:41.affect the party's growing Also tonight: Another bank is
:00:41. > :00:43.targeted by cyber thieves. This time, over £1 million is stolen
:00:43. > :00:46.from Barclays. How hundreds of children are being
:00:46. > :00:49.blackmailed by paedophiles online, with some driven to self harm, even
:00:50. > :00:53.suicide. After the decades-long civil war in
:00:53. > :00:59.Sri Lanka, we have a special report, as the country rebuilds but remains
:00:59. > :01:01.divided. And how TV manufacturers plan to
:01:01. > :01:11.transform the way we watch. In Sportsday: Sir Bradley Wiggins
:01:11. > :01:13.leads the Tour of Britain by 32 seconds.
:01:13. > :01:40.Simon Yates won today's stage. Good evening.
:01:40. > :01:43.The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, had intended to use his annual
:01:43. > :01:46.conference today to boast of how far the party has come and how it has
:01:46. > :01:49.grown in popularity. Instead it's been overshadowed by the comments of
:01:49. > :01:54.the UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom, who called a roomful of female party
:01:54. > :01:57.members "sluts". He insisted he was joking, but his leader failed to see
:01:57. > :02:03.the funny side and suspended Mr Bloom. It's not the first time the
:02:03. > :02:06.MEP has found himself in hot water. In August, he was forced to
:02:06. > :02:14.apologise after he said that British aid should not be sent to "Bongo
:02:14. > :02:20.Bongo Land". Here's Robin Brant. This was supposed to be his big day.
:02:20. > :02:23.UKIP has had a great year. A breakthrough in local elections. The
:02:23. > :02:30.message from Nigel Farage was, we are one of the big boys now. We have
:02:30. > :02:33.over 30,000 members, rising fast, and by the next general election we
:02:33. > :02:38.will have the third highest membership of any party in this
:02:38. > :02:42.country. But a few hours later, one of the current members torpedoed
:02:42. > :02:48.UKIP was my bid to broaden its appeal. At a fringe meeting about
:02:48. > :02:49.women, MEP Godfrey Bloom, a senior party spokesman was recorded
:02:50. > :02:58.women, MEP Godfrey Bloom, a senior apparently joking about housework.
:02:58. > :03:07.You said the place is full of sluts. Is that true? You will have to look
:03:07. > :03:13.at the clip, I cannot remember. What I remember is that everybody, I
:03:13. > :03:18.think all of the girls said, none of us clean behind the fridge. And I
:03:19. > :03:23.made a joke and said, you are all sluts, and everybody laughed,
:03:23. > :03:27.including all of the women. Was there a single woman that did not
:03:27. > :03:34.laugh at the joke, you sad little man? Then there was more, this time
:03:34. > :03:39.on race. What do you make of the cover of this brochure with no black
:03:39. > :03:44.faces? What they racist comment. That is an appalling thing to say.
:03:44. > :03:48.You are picking people out for the colour of their skin! New disgust
:03:48. > :03:57.me. Get out of my way. You are disc race for! Later, explained that he
:03:57. > :04:01.meant the very old fashioned meaning of the word slut. It means under
:04:01. > :04:12.side. As your mother never called you a slut Western Mark perhaps you
:04:12. > :04:16.are very tidy. It was a joke. Head held high, there was no apology, but
:04:16. > :04:21.one of the party's prominent women was quick to call for him to go. It
:04:21. > :04:26.is demeaning to the person who made that comment and to whoever they
:04:26. > :04:31.consider the target. It is not the language I would use, nor language
:04:31. > :04:34.that is endorsed by other members of UKIP. Nigel Farage was in a pub
:04:34. > :04:38.having a pint when he first heard about the slut comment. He knows
:04:39. > :04:44.that controversial remarks like that in the past have not necessarily
:04:44. > :04:47.damaged UKIP's reputation. But what is clear is that what unfolded in
:04:47. > :04:52.the hall next door could be a major setback for the party. A man with a
:04:52. > :04:56.look of despair by the end of the day, Nigel Farage told members the
:04:57. > :05:02.conference was gone, dead, he said. We cannot have any one individual
:05:02. > :05:07.destroying UKIP was Mac National conference, and that is what he has
:05:07. > :05:11.done today. And I am sad about that, but we cannot tolerate it and we
:05:11. > :05:15.have to act. UKIP has been accused of being a one-man band, all about
:05:16. > :05:20.Nigel Farage. Today, the party tried to show there is more to it, and it
:05:20. > :05:24.succeeded, but this is 1 million miles from the plan.
:05:24. > :05:29.Lets get more from Norman Smith, who joins us from Westminster. Not
:05:29. > :05:32.exactly the kind of coverage Nigel Farage was hoping for from the
:05:32. > :05:39.annual conference. How damaging is this to UKIP? I suspect profoundly
:05:39. > :05:42.damaging. Nigel Farage has tonight conceded that Godfrey Bloom's
:05:42. > :05:49.comments are politically "disastrous" . They overshadow what
:05:49. > :05:53.was UKIP's biggest ever conference. They are a gift to Nigel Farage's
:05:53. > :05:56.political opponents. Being in no doubt that David Cameron will be
:05:56. > :06:01.wearing a particularly large grin tonight. But above all, it will fuel
:06:01. > :06:06.the perception that UKIP contains in its ranks people who are frankly
:06:06. > :06:09.rather reactionary and out of touch, decidedly the moment when Nigel
:06:09. > :06:14.Farage is trying to present UKIP as representing mainstream
:06:14. > :06:18.middle-of-the-road opinion. I suspect it may also call for
:06:18. > :06:22.something of a rethink about the way that UKIP is run and its ethos.
:06:22. > :06:27.Nigel Farage has made much of the fact that UKIP are different to
:06:27. > :06:30.other parties, not hidebound by political correctness and party
:06:30. > :06:34.discipline. That brings advantages, but huge risks, too, and it seems
:06:34. > :06:40.those risks have come back to clobber Mr Farage with a vengeance.
:06:40. > :06:43.A man described by police as the "Mr Big" of UK cyber crime is believed
:06:44. > :06:46.to be one of eight men being questioned tonight after £1.3
:06:46. > :06:49.million was stolen from a branch of Barclays Bank. Scotland Yard is
:06:49. > :06:52.linking the crime to a similar attempted theft last week, and said
:06:52. > :07:03.those responsible were significant players in a sophisticated criminal
:07:03. > :07:07.network. Here's Rory Cellan-Jones. Britain's banks are under constant
:07:07. > :07:11.cyber attack but usually we learn nothing about it. Today was
:07:11. > :07:14.different. It was back in April that this north London branch of Barclays
:07:15. > :07:21.Bank suffered the theft of £1.3 million. Now, police have arrested
:07:21. > :07:24.eight men alleged to have got control of the bank's computer
:07:24. > :07:28.systems in an operation masterminded from a flat in this block. Police
:07:28. > :07:32.seized cash, jewellery and thousands of credit cards. They say the raid
:07:32. > :07:36.was the work of a sophisticated of credit cards. They say the raid
:07:36. > :07:41.criminal network. This premises, we would consider the control room of,
:07:41. > :07:47.again I would use Mr Big of UK cybercrime at doesn't. In there, the
:07:47. > :07:53.evidence, the setup and Logistics has overwhelmed us. This heist
:07:53. > :07:58.depended on physical access to the bank. A man posing as an IT engineer
:07:58. > :08:03.visited the branch, claiming he had come to fix the computers. Once the
:08:03. > :08:08.intruder got access to one of the computers, he was able to hook up
:08:08. > :08:12.this device, called a KVM switch, which allows the user to control
:08:12. > :08:17.several computers from one keyboard monitor and mouse. They are widely
:08:17. > :08:21.used. This one had a 3G router attached with a mobile card in it,
:08:21. > :08:27.which meant the gang could control the computer remotely, from their
:08:27. > :08:31.headquarters. Last week, the same technique was used in a failed raid
:08:31. > :08:35.on a branch of Santander, and police are investigating links between the
:08:35. > :08:39.plots. Most banks have made their online services more secure by
:08:39. > :08:45.making customers use authentication devices. But now they face a new
:08:45. > :08:49.threat. The banks need to be better about human and physical security.
:08:49. > :08:53.They need to put more tests in place as to who is coming into the branch
:08:53. > :08:56.and what they are doing if they are meddling with computers. That will
:08:56. > :09:00.be difficult because they want people to come in off the street.
:09:00. > :09:03.Barclays Bank is stressing that no customers have lost money as a
:09:03. > :09:08.result of this incident, but banks which have spent huge sums making
:09:08. > :09:13.computer networks secure from hackers now have to stop the raiders
:09:13. > :09:15.from just walking through the door. Hundreds of children are being
:09:15. > :09:18.tricked into sharing sexual images of themselves online and are then
:09:18. > :09:22.being blackmailed by paedophiles who threaten to send the pictures to the
:09:22. > :09:25.child's family and friends. Investigators say almost 200
:09:25. > :09:30.children in Britain, some as young as eight, have been targeted. Some
:09:30. > :09:37.of the victims have been driven to self-harm, even suicide. Here's Tom
:09:37. > :09:42.Symonds. The role of written's child
:09:42. > :09:47.protection agency, CEOP, is to spot emerging threats to young people. It
:09:47. > :09:55.is really worried about this one, internet lack mail by abusers posing
:09:55. > :10:01.as teenagers. 424 young victims have been identified worldwide, of which
:10:01. > :10:07.184 were in the UK. There were six British suicide attempts, and one
:10:07. > :10:09.resulted in death. Daniel Perry, 17, thought he was having an online
:10:09. > :10:14.relationship with an American teenager. He sent explicit images,
:10:14. > :10:20.but he was communicating with a blackmailer threatened to send the
:10:20. > :10:24.pig was to his friends and family. He felt his death from the Forth
:10:24. > :10:30.Road Bridge, the victim of an abuser he had never met. If they speak to a
:10:30. > :10:34.14-year-old they say, I am 14, 15, are you interested in me? It is
:10:34. > :10:38.introduction through the web as they would introduce themselves at
:10:38. > :10:42.school, except they go straight for the sexual exploitation imagery.
:10:42. > :10:48.This is a transcript of messages between an abuser and his victim. He
:10:48. > :10:56.begins by asking her age, sex and location. She responds, 16, female.
:10:56. > :11:03.He says he is 17, which is a lie, and mail. He quickly asks if she has
:11:03. > :11:06.a webcam. Within minutes, the victim is talked into sending explicit
:11:06. > :11:13.video to someone she thought was her own age. It could be posted online
:11:13. > :11:17.at any time. The next day he types, two times more and you will be free
:11:17. > :11:21.for ever. Her response, thanks for making me want to kill myself. He
:11:21. > :11:24.for ever. Her response, thanks for ignores her distress. Remember, I
:11:24. > :11:30.have your video, he says, so don't do anything bad. In this form of
:11:30. > :11:34.sexual abuse, every young person is vulnerable simply because they are a
:11:34. > :11:35.young person. Because they are an adolescent they will be exploring
:11:35. > :11:39.young person. Because they are an their sexuality and are more likely
:11:39. > :11:45.to take risks and be impulsive than an adult. And that vulnerability so
:11:45. > :11:50.concerns a small number of parents that they are now taking direct
:11:50. > :11:55.action. Chasing down men who they say have tried to approach children
:11:55. > :11:59.online. The Leicester group Letzgo Hunting posed as under age girls,
:11:59. > :12:03.watching for the moment innocent chat becomes grooming for sex. They
:12:03. > :12:08.turned their cameras on this man, James Stone, who was today sentenced
:12:08. > :12:12.to eight years for child abuse, but the police say the group's
:12:12. > :12:15.activities played no part in the conviction and can result in harm,
:12:15. > :12:20.including the recent suicide of a man its members accused. Their
:12:20. > :12:24.advice to children targeted online is to tell someone because you are
:12:24. > :12:27.not to blame. The Syrian government has begun
:12:27. > :12:29.sending details of its chemical weapons to the international
:12:29. > :12:32.watchdog which will supervise their destruction. Under a deal brokered
:12:32. > :12:35.by America and Russia, Syria has been given until tomorrow to give a
:12:35. > :12:38.full account of the weapons it possesses to the Organisation for
:12:38. > :12:40.the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The US had threatened military
:12:40. > :12:52.action over a chemical attack in Damascus which the UN says was a war
:12:52. > :12:56.crime. A former member of the Scottish Parliament has been jailed
:12:56. > :12:59.for a year for assaulting his three ex-wives and a stepdaughter.
:12:59. > :13:05.71-year-old Bill Walker was found guilty last month of 23 charges of
:13:05. > :13:08.domestic abuse between 1967 and 1985. He was expelled from the SNP
:13:08. > :13:15.party when the allegations were raised and resigned two weeks ago.
:13:15. > :13:17.Germans head to the polls on Sunday in an election which many
:13:17. > :13:21.commentators are suggesting is too close to call. Angela Merkel is on
:13:21. > :13:25.course to win a third term as Chancellor. Of that there seems
:13:25. > :13:28.little doubt. But the German political system means she will need
:13:28. > :13:32.to form a coalition, and there's no indication yet as to who with. Gavin
:13:32. > :13:40.Hewitt has been following the campaign and reports from Munich. A
:13:40. > :13:43.main square in Munich tonight, one of the last campaign stops for
:13:43. > :13:49.Chancellor Angela Merkel, as she made her final pitch to the German
:13:49. > :13:53.voters. The most powerful politician in Europe is expected to win a third
:13:53. > :14:00.term on Sunday, when Germany votes. But the polls have narrowed. She has
:14:00. > :14:04.built her campaign around having shielded Germany from Europe's
:14:04. > :14:11.financial crisis. But he told the crowd the election was a fight down
:14:11. > :14:14.to the wire. TRANSLATION: Ladies and gentlemen,
:14:14. > :14:19.in just a few more hours we are pleading with you to choose. I want
:14:19. > :14:22.to be your Chancellor for four more years. On the street she undoubtedly
:14:22. > :14:28.command respect, but there is also an appetite for change. She might
:14:28. > :14:32.not be that charismatic but she did a great job. It's our Chancellor and
:14:32. > :14:38.she's doing her work really well, but I'm thinking it's time for
:14:38. > :14:44.change. It's time for a new party to come to power. Her main opponent is
:14:44. > :14:48.Pere Steinberg, from the social Democrat party. In recent days he
:14:48. > :14:54.has attacked Angela Merkel for dithering, for her innate caution.
:14:54. > :15:04.Has she done anything about the infrastructure he asks. No, the
:15:04. > :15:11.crowd. Education? Has she improved local finances? Yet one of the
:15:11. > :15:14.possible outcomes of a close result on Sunday is that Angela Merkel
:15:14. > :15:21.could be forced into a grand coalition with the social Democrats.
:15:21. > :15:24.It would be an uneasy alliance. And at Angela Merkel's Valley tonight
:15:24. > :15:29.there were concerns that the outcome might be confiscated. Angela
:15:29. > :15:33.Merkel's party will get the most votes, that's not in doubt. Whether
:15:33. > :15:37.she will end up with an absolute majority is less certain. Her fate
:15:37. > :15:38.is in the hands of some of the smaller parties including her
:15:38. > :15:44.current coalition partner and how smaller parties including her
:15:44. > :15:50.well they poll. The crowd in Munich clearly expected the woman they call
:15:51. > :15:54.mummy to be returned to power. But there are uncertainties. Who will
:15:54. > :15:59.she be in coalition with, will decisions over Europe be harder and
:15:59. > :16:06.could Germany face weeks of haggling over its future government? The
:16:06. > :16:11.Labour leader Ed Miliband has said he will scrap the government's most
:16:11. > :16:16.controversial cut to benefits if he becomes the next Prime Minister. Mr
:16:16. > :16:19.Miliband says the policy, which cuts benefits for social housing tenants
:16:19. > :16:27.with spare rooms, is both unfair and doesn't work. It is one of the
:16:27. > :16:30.government's most controversial benefit changes. Since April, social
:16:30. > :16:36.housing tenants with spare rooms have either had to pay more in rent
:16:36. > :16:39.or move somewhere smaller. Labour said that was wrong, but Ed Miliband
:16:39. > :16:45.hadn't promised that he would scrap it. Until now. We are starting by
:16:45. > :16:49.showing how we would abolish the bedroom tax, by ending boardroom tax
:16:49. > :16:52.loopholes that this government is allowing. That is a fair choice that
:16:52. > :16:56.will help disabled people and some of the people in the greatest
:16:56. > :16:59.hardship in our country. The announcement follows months of
:16:59. > :17:02.criticism from the government, who claimed Ed Miliband moaned about a
:17:02. > :17:08.policy but couldn't be certain he would get rid of it. You ranted and
:17:08. > :17:15.raved about the spare room subsidy will stop are you going to reverse
:17:16. > :17:19.it? Just nod. Labour say it would pay for this policy by scrapping
:17:19. > :17:22.what it calls a tax break for hedge funds. Getting rid of a Treasury
:17:22. > :17:27.scheme that allows employees to give up some right in exchange for shares
:17:27. > :17:31.that Labour claims creates a tax loophole. And closing what it calls
:17:31. > :17:37.tax scams in the construction industry. This would save, the party
:17:37. > :17:39.says, more than £1.5 billion. Susan Lloyd lives in Saint Helens with a
:17:39. > :17:43.says, more than £1.5 billion. Susan husband and grandson but has three
:17:43. > :17:47.bedrooms. She receives disability living allowance for a chronic chest
:17:47. > :17:53.condition and now gets around £50 a month less in housing benefit. The
:17:53. > :17:59.gas is more important than the bedroom tax. For a little bedroom
:17:59. > :18:03.like this, it's disgraceful. This idea will cheer those hoops in their
:18:03. > :18:06.rents going up in recent months. It will also cheer those within the
:18:06. > :18:12.Labour Party have been stressing its about time the party set out clear
:18:12. > :18:17.policy ideas. But welfare cuts, opinion polls suggest, are often
:18:17. > :18:22.quite popular. And the government is scathing about Labour's idea, and
:18:22. > :18:26.questioning, too, whether it has even thought through how it will be
:18:26. > :18:30.paid for. Only three months ago Ed Miliband were saying we needed iron
:18:30. > :18:35.discipline in spending. And the very next thing he announces is for more
:18:35. > :18:43.spending on welfare paid for by more borrowing. Meanwhile, a new book
:18:43. > :18:47.from Gordon Brown's former adviser, Damian McBride, is full of claims of
:18:47. > :18:52.backstabbing that went on when Labour was in power. So, after a
:18:52. > :18:55.tough summer for Ed Miliband, his challenge now, as the party gathers
:18:55. > :18:59.for its conference, will be announcing other policies like this
:18:59. > :19:07.that set out what he would do if he became Prime Minister. For more than
:19:07. > :19:11.two decades should like was torn apart by a brutal civil war, with
:19:11. > :19:15.the government accused of human rights abuses. Now it is trying to
:19:15. > :19:19.rebuild its reputation ahead of the Commonwealth heads of government
:19:19. > :19:23.summit, which takes place in niche Lankan capital later this year. For
:19:23. > :19:27.26 years the country was riven by violence and bloodshed. The
:19:27. > :19:31.government tried to stop the Tamil minority in the North from gaining
:19:31. > :19:35.independence. The war finally ended four years ago, leaving up to
:19:35. > :19:40.100,000 dead and the country deeply divided. But for the first time in
:19:40. > :19:43.25 years, voters in the Tamil dominated northern province will get
:19:43. > :19:46.their chance tomorrow to vote in local elections. We report from
:19:46. > :19:53.Jaffna City. Celebrations for what local elections. We report from
:19:53. > :19:58.the shrill and in government calls a new era. It is staging a group
:19:58. > :20:02.wedding for former Tamil rebels who've gone through a process of
:20:02. > :20:09.re-education to convert them to its side. They are rewarded with a
:20:09. > :20:13.government job. TRANSLATION: We are happier now. We
:20:14. > :20:17.spent a year and a half in the rehabilitation programme and we've
:20:17. > :20:26.changed ourselves. We have started a new life. Sri Lanka's civil war
:20:26. > :20:28.lasted nearly 30 years, the Tamil Tigers becoming notorious for
:20:28. > :20:37.suicide attacks in their battle for independence. But after a massive
:20:37. > :20:42.Sri Lankan army offensive, they were defeated four years ago. Both sides
:20:42. > :20:45.were accused of atrocities. The rebels of using Tamil civilians as
:20:45. > :20:52.human shields. And the army of indiscriminate shelling. Among those
:20:52. > :20:57.caught in the crossfire was this woman and her family. Then her
:20:57. > :21:01.daughter and son-in-law were arrested. She admits he was a rebel.
:21:01. > :21:07.But she tells me her grandchildren were taken as well. Four years
:21:07. > :21:10.later, the army still won't say what happened to them.
:21:10. > :21:14.TRANSLATION: They were just five and three years old when they were
:21:14. > :21:18.taken. They were flowering buds. I have to believe they are still
:21:18. > :21:25.alive. That is what keeps me going, otherwise I will kill myself. The
:21:25. > :21:29.government wants to move on. It is spending huge sums trying to revive
:21:29. > :21:34.the economy in the north. But the price for the majority Tamil
:21:34. > :21:37.population isn't -- is an often intimidating military presence.
:21:37. > :21:43.There's a real sense of fear here. We've come to this shopping area to
:21:43. > :21:47.talk to people. These soldiers have showed up, there's also a police car
:21:47. > :21:51.nearby. Now no one wants to speak to us. Tamil Tigers a-macro say they
:21:51. > :21:54.are second-class citizens, like this us. Tamil Tigers a-macro say they
:21:54. > :21:59.man who tells me he was forced to close his business by the army.
:21:59. > :22:03.TRANSLATION: They accused me of getting money from Tamils with links
:22:03. > :22:07.to the rebels. It's not true, but they see us all as their enemy. With
:22:07. > :22:11.to the rebels. It's not true, but the president due to host the
:22:11. > :22:14.Commonwealth summit later this year, calls are growing for Britain and
:22:14. > :22:22.others to boycott it. It is militarily dismiss accusations they
:22:22. > :22:26.massacred Tamil civilians. I don't think... Not everyone can buy that.
:22:26. > :22:35.This war, unlike in other countries, this war was between government
:22:35. > :22:37.forces, not against the civilian population. The obvious scars of war
:22:37. > :22:42.are fading, as northern Sri Lanka population. The obvious scars of war
:22:42. > :22:51.prepares for elections. The land is united now, says one Tamil. But
:22:51. > :22:54.people 's minds are still divided. A retired teacher has been trampled to
:22:54. > :22:56.death by a wild elephant while on safari in southern India.
:22:56. > :22:59.67-year-old Colin Manvell, from safari in southern India.
:22:59. > :23:02.Havant, was on a jungle tour in the state of Tamil Nadu. It's believed
:23:02. > :23:06.that he was trying to photograph the animal when it charged. The Anglican
:23:06. > :23:10.church has appointed the UK and Ireland's first female Bishop. The
:23:10. > :23:13.Reverend Pat Storey was chosen by the Church of Ireland to be the new
:23:13. > :23:16.Bishop of Meath and Kildare. The married mother of two, who grew up
:23:16. > :23:22.in Belfast, said she was both "excited and daunted" by the
:23:22. > :23:24.historic appointment. The Canadian smartphone maker, Blackberry, is to
:23:25. > :23:28.sack 4,500 of its employees worldwide, cutting its workforce by
:23:28. > :23:32.40%. The company, which is looking for a buyer, said it expects to
:23:32. > :23:34.report loses of more than £600 million when it publishes figures
:23:34. > :23:43.for the three months to September next week.
:23:43. > :23:48.Over the years, technology has shrunk most things in our lives -
:23:48. > :23:51.but not the size of our televisions. The days of a family huddled around
:23:51. > :23:55.a tiny screen are long gone - and our screens keep on growing with 40,
:23:55. > :24:01.50 even 60 inch screens readily available. And now TV manufacturers
:24:01. > :24:12.are going even further with screens double that size, as our media
:24:12. > :24:17.correspondent David Sillito reports. The TV, the small screen, the box to
:24:17. > :24:26.sit around. An idea that is being challenged. Welcome to one vision of
:24:26. > :24:32.the future. Wallpaper TV that surrounds you. Controlled by a
:24:32. > :24:41.tablet device, this prototype throws any content in any size onto walls
:24:41. > :24:46.lined with ultra-thin screens. For Simon Parnell, a man described as a
:24:46. > :24:51.thought leader for the future of TV, the 130 inch movie screen is the
:24:51. > :24:57.future. Look at how sharp that is. The television as a box in your
:24:57. > :25:03.room, it's over, isn't it? I think so. Television is going to inhabit
:25:03. > :25:07.our homes in a way that is unobtrusive. It's going to blend
:25:07. > :25:11.into our environment. And one thing is already definitely happening.
:25:11. > :25:19.Television is getting an awful lot bigger. If you measure this one, it
:25:19. > :25:24.is... 85 inches. That's the equivalent of four 42 inch
:25:24. > :25:30.televisions. The price, £32,000. Prices have a habit of shrinking. By
:25:30. > :25:34.the end of the decade, we expect a third of all TV sets sold will be
:25:34. > :25:39.jumbo-sized, 33 inches or larger. Within there, there will be a good
:25:39. > :25:46.proportion that a 60, 80 or even 100 inches in size. But there are
:25:46. > :25:51.doubters. Covering the house with screens doesn't seem to resonate
:25:51. > :25:55.yet. Damian Reid shows 60 inches is a natural limit. How far away should
:25:55. > :26:01.we be standing to watch ourselves here? You'll a-macro for a 60 inch
:26:01. > :26:05.screen and it is typically 15 feet. Bigger than most British living
:26:05. > :26:10.rooms today. Of course, this 15 foot ideal viewing distance may fuss and
:26:10. > :26:15.be a matter of opinion. Indeed, the whole heart of this debate isn't
:26:15. > :26:24.technology, it's us. Just how much of our living space and our lives do
:26:24. > :26:24.we really want screened? That's all from us. There a first