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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What an interesting amalgamation the title of this post would make. Unfortunately for the curious, it refers to two different things.
This evening, I went out with a friend to see 28 Weeks Later, that new zombie film which is a sequel to 28 Days Later. While I had seen the first film, I [...]

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. But that’s not the subject of today’s [...]

For months now, I’ve been anxiously awaiting Comcast’s launch of several new high definition channels in our area of Southwest Florida. The upgrades have been appearing in markets all over the country, but SWFL was left high and dry…until now. If the Zap2it TV listings are to be believed, our market has finally [...]

This post is coming to you in color, on location, very expensively…not from Thailand. Or China. Or the Eastern Hemisphere.
It’s also going to potentially be quite long, so strap yourselves in…or ignore it altogether. Your choice. There’s going to be a lot of stuff in here, because I don’t feel like writing out 15 separate [...]