Cybernet

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Cybernet
The Cybernet introduction animation
Format	Video gaming and related subject matter
Presented by	Catherine Fox Steve Truitt Lucy Longhurst Steve Priestly
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Producer(s)	Capricorn Programmes
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original run	1996^{[citation needed]} – present^{[citation needed]}
External links
Official website

This article is about the television show. For the fraudulent company CyberNet Engineering, see Barton H. Watson.

Cybernet is the weekly voice-over-only television show on video gaming and related subject matter, originally commissioned by Yorkshire Television and is produced by Capricorn Programmes^[1]. The show was voiced by Lucy Longhurst, in its early years, and later by Steve Truitt. The show is currently voiced by Catherine Fox.

1 Segments
2 Features
3 Criticism
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Segments

Each show is broken down into a number of segments, namely:

Reviews
Previews
Multimedia
Internet
Tactics
Around the World

The show talks about recent games, Cybernet's top ten games of the year, recent technological development in the world, such as the A3XX super airline, and 3D object Printers.

[edit] Features

These are some technological developments featured on the show

A3XX
Eden Project
Winter X Games
Internet controlled houses
Andersat Space satellites
Digital Art
3D Object Printers

[edit] Criticism

Watchers of Cybernet felt that reviews were often biased and lacking critique, with one watcher stating:

“

Cybernet is another programme hosted by a disembodied voice (but it has a name: Lucy Longhurst) and consists of plug after plug for new computer games and consoles with little even rudimentary critique beyond stating whether something is "good" or "very good".^[2]

”

Others felt that the show contained good content however the irregular showing times and change of host, to that of Steve Truitt, was its downfall.^[3]