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Knight Rider 2008 Teaser

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

NBC has released a little teaser commercial for the new Knight Rider TV movie, scheduled to air in February. It’s not much to look at, but it confirms two things:

The scanner light is back, albeit radically different.
The theme music — yes, glory be, the theme music — is back too. In a super-hip [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sci-Fi HD is Here. But is it Really HD?

Posted by Chief Oddball on Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 in Media, Quick Takes, Television

Comcast just launched Sci-Fi Channel HD in our area. On the surface, this is awesome because it means I can catch the final season of Battlestar Galactica in glorious high-def. However, it doesn’t look like this channel actually airs anything in HD — it’s all upconverted SD. What the hell is the [...]

Knight Rider TV Movie Details Revealed

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in Media, Television

I still can’t believe NBC is remaking Knight Rider (again), but they are — and the two-hour TV movie is scheduled to premiere on February 17th.
Some details and publicity photos were released by the network today. Here’s their plot summary, verbatim:
Sarah Graiman (Russo) is a 24-year-old Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, following in her [...]

Let’s Go To The Knife Planet

Posted by Pooch on Friday, November 30th, 2007 in Media, Music

So here I am again, emerging from another months-long hiatus to gush about a rock band from Japan. I did it last year with Puffy, and now it’s time for…Shonen Knife. The female rock trio has been rocking out for over 25 years now — and has been making regular tours of America for about [...]

The Stupid Cable Box

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 in Media, Rants, Television

When Apple and I spent October with my family in Michigan, I was introduced to my dad’s new high-def A/V setup, the centerpiece of which is a Sony Bravia II 46″ LCD television. They get digital cable service from Bright House Networks, and my dad gave me a tour of the HD DVR he’d [...]

Music Post! (In Color)

Posted by Pooch on Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 in Media, Music

2007 has been a banner year for CD purchasing for me so far. I swear, I haven’t bought this many CDs in such a short period of time since I worked at a music store — and back then I had the excuse of a 30% employee discount to blame for my constant music purchases [...]