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TiVo HD, Comcast and CableCARDs

January 1, 2008October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball 2 Comments

First off, welcome to 2008. I mostly don’t do New Year’s resolutions, but if I were to make one, it would be “post on Oddball Update more often.” I seem to have mostly gotten the rest of my house in order, at least in terms of no longer working myself to death, trying not to get upset about petty things, and having a positive outlook toward the future that life may bring me.

Set-Top DVD Recording: Not Your Father’s Fair Use Doctrine

May 15, 2007October 26, 2011 Chief Oddball 19 Comments

Yay! It’s pouring rain here in Florida for the first time in six months! Now perhaps we can finally stop smoldering, inhaling noxious smoke and — dare I say it — go back to washing our cars in our driveways without getting two-hundred dollar tickets.

Remastered TOS: “Balance of Terror” Impressions

September 17, 2006September 30, 2011 Chief Oddball

Last night our local UPN (err, sorry…”My Network TV”) affiliate aired the first of the remastered Star Trek: TOS episodes, “Balance of Terror.” Of course, I was up at 11:00 checking it out. What did I think of the upgraded appearance?

Star Trek: Remastered

September 12, 2006September 30, 2011 Chief Oddball 2 Comments

September 8th, 2006 marked the 40th anniversary of the airing of the first Star Trek: TOS episode back in 1966. Sitting here today, it’s hard to believe that I’ve been a fan of this show for more than half of that elapsed time — in fact, the colorful sets and hackneyed effects of TOS are some of my earliest (and fondest) television memories, watching syndicated reruns at 7:00 p.m.

TiVo Dies; Is Resurrected

February 4, 2006October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball 1 Comment

In the last couple of weeks, something strange has been going on with our TiVo. While watching either live TV or recorded programs, occasionally the action would freeze for a second, then the picture would dissolve into chunky compression artifacts before clearing up and returning to normal.

Boldly Going Away

May 13, 2005October 2, 2011 Chief Oddball

Well, here it is. A red-letter date in Star Trek history. Tonight, the final two episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise—and indeed, of Star Trek itself—will air on the red-headed stepchild UPN network. After which, new episodes of Trek will leave the airwaves for the first time in eighteen years.

Enterprise Cancelled

February 4, 2005October 7, 2011 Chief Oddball

The cast of Enterprise “Star Trek: Enterprise…has been cancelled.” Okay, you were supposed to be hearing the voice of the Wildfire central computer from The Andromeda Strain as you read that line. If you didn’t, your nerd index is insufficient to continue reading this site, so…oh, who am I kidding.

Battlestar Galactica Premiere

January 22, 2005January 22, 2005 Chief Oddball

It almost snuck up on me undetected, but fortunately somebody alerted me to the fact that the new Battlestar Galactica series was starting last Friday on the Sci-Fi channel. It’s the new series that continues the grippingly dramatic story begun in the 2003 four-hour miniseries, which was incredibly good, and I’m pleased to report that the first two episodes of the series continue the unfaltering greatness.

The DMCA Is Fucking Idiocy

July 6, 2004October 7, 2011 Chief Oddball

A while back, I posted a rant about our local UPN affiliate for not airing the Star Trek: Enterprise episode called “The Council.” This was a pivotal episode near the end of the third season which contained details critical to the story arc.

UPN 8 Sucks

May 17, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

The local UPN affiliate in my area sucks donkey gonads. This isn’t anything particularly new, since they’ve always really blown (I mean, when your call letters are “WEVU” and you make jokes in your bumpers like “We View TV!”, you have to be pretty far down on the totem pole of TV station professionalism).

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