Oddball Update

For months now, I’ve been anxiously awaiting Comcast’s launch of several new high definition channels in our area of Southwest Florida.

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.

D’OH! I just had Sunday night’s super incredibly revolutionary episode of Battlestar Galactica SPOILED by a post on a totally non-television message board. How did I come to see it?

Tomorrow, my 57″ HDTV finally earns a purpose. A Comcast tech will be stopping by in the afternoon to deliver my new high definition DVR, which will enable me to receive HDTV channels and also record HD programs.

And again, I bring our TiVo back from the brink of destruction. Actually, it was more like a resuscitation, as the little black box was already clinically dead.

Upon further consideration, I don’t think I am having that much luck with my 24004A TiVo Series2 box. I bought it as a Christmas gift for Apple in 2004, which means that it is almost exactly two years old.

Okay, I’ve never been a proponent of digital cable, despite never using it. I always was of the opinion that satellite TV services were far superior and that cable was crap.

I’m about to make the biggest upgrade to my home theater since I added my Toshiba 57HDX82 back in September of 2002. (I’d get all high-tech and link you to a vintage post about it, but those were all buried with my other purple site.

Okay, I admit it: I often watch Smallville.
Why? I dunno.

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.