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  • TV viewers now refusing to watch SD content?

    TV viewers now refusing to watch SD content?

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    There's a handy option in the DirecTV menu guide for "HDTV Channels." On the rare occasion when I'm actually sitting in front of the TV looking to "channel surf" (more like "menu surf" nowadays), it's only "HDTV channels" I'm concerned with. Nearly halfway through 2010, it has come to the point where, unless I absolutely have no other choice, I simply won't watch a network unless the program is in HD. Has it come really come to that? That, unless a show is in HD, you'll simply skip it?

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  • The four reasons Lost will go down in history as a bad TV show

    The four reasons Lost will go down in history as a bad TV show

    Posted on May 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Lost will wrap up this Sunday. It’s about time, too. At least the story is actually ending, rather than drifting along until the show is canceled because of bad ratings. But still, I feel like there are too many loose ends that will not be answered tomorrow. This isn’t a sign of the a clever mystery. [...]

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  • Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen puts the final nail in Syfy’s coffin

    Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen puts the final nail in Syfy’s coffin

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    The big TV networks announced their upcoming shows this week and, well, Syfy is now dead to me and no amount of Stargate can restore my faith in the station. Let me introduce to you Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen, which will be just one of the new shows shown on the upcoming Thursday reality block. [...]

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  • Dear Hollywood: Wanna stop BitTorrent piracy of your TV shows? Make them available overseas in a timely manner!

    Dear Hollywood: Wanna stop BitTorrent piracy of your TV shows? Make them available overseas in a timely manner!

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    What's wrong with sites like Hulu? Well nothing, per se, except for the fact that they can't be used anywhere outside of the Unites States. As if other countries don't want to watch... um, really great shows like “Extreme Makeover” and “The [American] Office”! Perhaps that's why, then, BitTorrent site EZTV has seen traffic double, mainly from non-American IPs, in the past year? For whatever reason, people want to watch these shows, but since there's no legal outlet to do so, well, it's not exactly hard to configure uTorrent or Transmission, now is it?

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