Posts Tagged ‘TV’
LOST Season 6 predictions
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under TV
In anticipation of the last good serialized sci-fi show left on TV starting it’s final season tonight, I’d like to offer up my predictions for what LOST fans may anticipate over the coming weeks.
The Oceanic 815 survivors will make it off the island, only to realize they left the coffee pot on and have to [...]
Talking lemons and porn stars: a small collection of 30 Rock parodies
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under TV
Okay, even though this season has gotten off to a rough start, 30 Rock is still one of my all-time favorite TV shows. And, given my documented fondness for Sesame Street, you can imagine how tickled I was to find this very clever send-up sketch, entitled “30 Rocks.”
I’m quite amused by the fact that Liz [...]
DVR by the numbers: How much does owning a DVR really cost?
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Gadgets, Misc.
during the process of sorting-out if I’m going to keep TiVo or ditch it for Moxi, or even a Vista CableCard Home Theater PC, I ran some numbers and came to some interesting conclusions. I compared the overall cost of ownership of different digital cable-ready HD DVRs, including a TiVo HD with and without expanded storage and 3rd party upgrades, the TiVo XL HD, the newly launched Moxi DVR with and without expanded storage, the average cost of CableCard equipped HTPCs, and a service provider rental DVR. The total cost of ownership was figured at 1, 2, 3 and 5 years, with both prepaid and monthly service plans calculated. I also took a look at multi-room DVR solutions.
Pretty sure I know why they fired Jeph Loeb from Heroes
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Rants, TV
There’s been a phrase that I’ve been repeating over and over the past couple of weeks while watching Heroes on NBC. And that phrase pretty much goes like this:
“…the fuck?!?”
This season didn’t start out that bad. Not nearly as strong as the first season — which was damn good television up until the last five minutes [...]
R.I.P. Tim Russert
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Misc., TV
Tim,
You were one of the last respectable TV journalists. While your passing may let many a politician and CEO breathe a sigh of relief, the rest of us are worse off for your passing. We can only hope that you’re sitting down at a table this Sunday morning, grilling St. Peter about when the Pearly Gates are actually going to get fixed.
In memory of Tim Russert
1950-2008
The problem with niches…
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Rants, TV
With cable and satellite viewers assaulted with eleventy-billion channels, cable broadcasters have to carve niches for themselves so they can find an audience. This is how we ended up with channels like E! Style, Sleuth, The Food Network, and thirteen different Discovery channels. Within the last five years or so, TBS decided to change [...]
Held hostage by cable
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Misc., Rants
My cable internet service went out for about half of last week, which served to remind me how little choice I have when it comes to broadband and pay TV service.