I’ve been running into a huge number of people who don’t understand what’s going on with HDTV lately, so I figured I needed to put something out for the couple of people who do read my blog. The HD broadcast switch is a funded federal mandate. (see item #3) You do not have to get [...]

Looking around for new podcast content this morning I ended up in the Zune Marketplace and found Minnesota Stories which is cool but sadly recently on hiatus, but they had a link in their sidebar to The Midwest Teen Sex Show which is really incredibly good sex education videos. Oh, and they’re really funny. Tags: [...]

So I am just about done with Star Trek: Next Generation Season 4 through Netflix, and my understanding is that there is some overlap between that Star Trek: Deep Space 9. So my question is: Is there a particular combination that I should watch them in so that they make the most sense in the [...]

For those who have not been keeping up with the news, Netflix has recently started the rollout of their long anticipated electronic service, called “Watch Now” to complement their existing DVD-by-Mail service. The rollout is being staged to their various million subscribers and I am lucky enough to be one of the relatively early accounts [...]

I finished watching Lost Season 2 on DVD (out from Netflix) last night, or all of the episodes anyway. (I didn’t realize disc 7 was just extras until I watched the last episode on disc 6 last night which was very obviously a cliffhanger.) I had talked with a friend about it just as the [...]

Just an update about how Intelliflix is doing. I decided back in July that it wasn’t worth the hassle of trying to cancel my prepaid 1 year membership, so I’m just keeping track of how it’s performing at this point. A couple of interesting tidbits: The inventory of Xbox 360 titles displayed on their site [...]

The Veronica Mars season two episode “One Angry Veronica” has a credit for a “Ned Flanders Type”. I hope nobody has ever said pop culture isn’t self-referential. Tags: pop

Just in case there was any lingering doubt over the likely absence of anything “good” in the announced Marvel Avengers movie, Bags and Boards says that the person responsible for writing this oncoming travesty will be Zack Penn who has a decidedly checkered record. Tags: movie

I just don’t know if I can even begin to be properly pessimistic about the chance that the newly announced series of Avengers movies is going to be even watchable. Have you seen the travesty that is The Ultimate Avengers Movie? It’s not even like the recent Marvel movies have been really very good. The [...]

I saw Pixar’s new movie, Cars last night. Short version: Amazingly beautiful and hilariously funny, but more shallow and less original than I normally expect from this source. Every time that Pixar puts out a new movie, it is more beautiful than the one that ran before it. Comparing Toy Story to Toy Story 2 [...]