The presentation of the show was absolutely awful back then. The old voiceover is lame, the set was tacky and disgusting, Kate was awful, etc.
This was the first ever episode of the X Factor [it buffers all the time though]:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/2-db6ujKrag/
It has changed so much...
By the way if anyone wants a link to the place where I'm getting all of these links from you can have it tomorrow, just PM me now and I'll give it to you tomorrow. I don't want to post it on the forum incase like Big Brother the links start being removed. It has every series [although some videos don't work etc].