They could usually be found in a quiet corner of an otherwise busy video rental store, perhaps partially obscured by a Kevin Costner movie that hadn't been checked out in about a year. For some reason it always seemed like a good idea to rent one and give it a go, despite protestations from at least one person in your flat who had been there before and knew what you were in for.

Upon inserting Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in your extremely cheap Transonic DVD player, you could marvel at the technological leap on display as you skipped between questions presented with about a billion cut-scenes, each with a seek time of five seconds or so. That is, of course, until you came to one that was mildly scratched - perhaps by a slight breeze - and the entire experience came crashing to a halt.

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