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Archive for January, 2008

By Your Command

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in Media, Television

A big thanks to Pooch and Reaper for the Christmas gifts they sent me this year, one of which was the uncut version of Battlestar Galactica: Razor on DVD. I had never watched the copy I recorded from the Sci-Fi channel back in November, so I checked out the DVD eagerly and was totally [...]

Blu-Ray’s Stunning Victory

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in Media, Movies, Television

The HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray Disc format war is over, and the last shot was fired by Warner Brothers — as they announced yesterday that they will be going Blu-Ray exclusive. So confident are they in their choice, that they made this announcement on the eve of the CES show, where Toshiba’s HD-DVD group was [...]

Getting Out of the House

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in Life, Randomness

Today was Apple’s birthday. For some time now, we’ve been planning a “shopping outing” to celebrate the occasion, and I even took the day off (with plans to work tomorrow instead) so we could enjoy it undisturbed. So as soon as we rolled out of bed this morning (at a leisurely time, I [...]

TiVo Bliss Postponed Again…

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 in Media, Quick Takes, Television

The cable guy never showed up for my CableCARD reinstallation appointment yesterday, so I had to call up and reschedule for later. The soonest I could get was Saturday. At first they offered me the damned 5pm-9pm slot again, but I demanded something else and they immediately gave me 1pm-5pm on the same [...]

TiVo HD, Comcast and CableCARDs

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 in Media, Television

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 [...]