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Category Archives: Television
Finally, a real DVD of Quark
Three years ago I got an unofficial DVD of Quark, the short-lived science fiction sitcom, but it was of very poor quality as it was mastered from video tapes from broadcast television. Now there’s an official DVD release.
Posted in Comedy, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Television
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R.I.P. Don Herbert AKA Mr. Wizard, 10 July 1917 — 12 June 2007
Timmy: “Are we gonna discover the secret of life, Mr. Wizard?” Mr. Wizard: “We will if we’re not careful, Timmy!” —”Mr. Wizard and Timmy” parody by Stevens & Grdnic I’m not old enough to have seen the original “Watch Mr. … Continue reading
Posted in In memoriam, Natural Sciences, Television
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Taking NASA TV mainstream, and funding a Mars mission
People do crazy things for love, and apparently NASA astronauts are no exception. On a mailing list, a friend wrote “We’ll never get to Mars at this rate.” Actually I think we can fund the Mars mission(s) via advertising by … Continue reading
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Space, Television
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US Navy SEALs discover gravelings?
From Boing Boing: US Navy SEALs see unknown ape in Africa, They look virtually identical to the gravelings seen in the series “Dead Like Me” (images here and here).
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Upgrade your DVR
Boing Boing describes a $25K bounty for hacks to the new DirecTV PVR to allow usinng a different (higher-capacity) hard drive, multiple drives, etc. They state that they specificially don’t want anything that will bypass the DRM or Tivo’s service … Continue reading
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Finally, a DVD of Quark
OK, so it’s not an official studio release, just a DVD someone has assembled from video cassette recordings, but it was still great to see it again after all these years. I watched the pilot episode this evening. I’m not … Continue reading
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Jeremiah; The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Steve and I have been enjoying the DVDs of the first season of Jeremiah. I thought I’d seen most of them when originally broadcast, but I missed more of them than I realized. Steve, Dan, and I saw “The Eternal … Continue reading
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Television watching habits, with or without a DVR
Hanford Lemoore and I were both early employees of ReplayTV. Hanford writes about how he became a DVR user more than a year before any were available commercially, and how he has now gone DVRless for over year. I watched … Continue reading →