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NBC Wants You to be a Criminal

In addition to full episodes of their TV Shows, NBC's website has lots of web only content. All of that content is blocked from outside the US. To me this sends one message unmistakable message. Look elsewhere. Of course the other popular service, Hulu, is blocked as well. That means if I want to see shows like Heroes in English I have one choice download them or stream them from sketchy websites. NBC clearly doesn't want me as the legitimate viewer I am all too willing to be. In the long run, if Read more [...]

OLED TV's Will Make Your LCD's and Plasmas Look Like Poo

OLED has: brighter colors sharper contrast much thinner weighs less more energy efficient faster video relay (no blur like LCD & Plasma) But here is why you don't want one today: expensive small viewing size (only 11" diagonal) limited life span (sort of, 30,000 hours which is roughly 10 years of viewing it 8 hours a day) It seems at this point that OLED will be the standard, but it isn't ready for the spot light just yet. Read more [...]

NBC Wants People to Stop Buying TV Shows

On the heels of iTunes getting rid of DRM in music NBC says they want more. Apple has announced that they will not carry NBC shows because NBC wanted each episode to sell for $4.99 which is more than double what they cost now. Read more [...]

Andy Barker P.I.

They're putting a new mid-season replacement show out onto the interweb before airing even one episode on TV. I can only assume it is a move to make sure the show has a chance to be seen considering this is a time when no one really expects to see new shows. Read more [...]

A Little Something Extra

Extras is another one of Ricky Gervais's projects and let me tell you, it is funny in that beautifully painful way that it seems only Gervais can really make work. bbc, comedy, extras, good tv, hbo, ricky gervais, sitcoms, tv Read more [...]