Game changer

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🗓️ 10 February 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Feifei and Harry use an expression for people and ideas that change the way we do things.

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0:18.0	I'm Faye Faye and joining me is Harry.
0:19.0	Hello there and the popular modern expression we're going to look at in this program is game changer.
0:25.2	Game changer. We'll look at what it means and when you can use it.
0:30.0	So Harry, did you end up buying a new TV like you were planning?
0:34.0	I certainly did and then some. I don't know if TV is really the right word for it though.
0:39.6	Why not? Well, it's so much more. It's got a 72 inch curved screen with ultimate high definition and it's in 3D.
0:48.0	When you watch a program, it's like you're really there.
0:51.0	Wow, it sounds amazing. It is. TV will never be the same again.
0:56.8	In TV terms, it's a real game changer.
0:59.8	A game changer? What's that? Well, it's so unlike any normal TV that it's changed the rules of what
1:07.7	TVs are. You'll never think of TV in the same way if you watch my TV. It's a new world of television.
1:15.0	So game changer means something that is so new and different.
1:19.0	It changes the rules of the game?
1:22.0	Exactly.
1:23.0	It could be technology, like my TV, or a person with new ideas, or a new direction in music or
1:29.8	fashion.
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