Posts Tagged With: television
· May 13, 2008 at 5:18 am · Personal
Tags: 720p, hdtv, lcd, newegg, samsung, television, tv
My new TV for the Mitchelaneous office of mass mitchlicious things should be here a little later today, did I do a good job? This is the first HDTV I’ve purchased, and well - I at least think I picked a winner. It is the Samsung 720p LN26A450 LCD TV. As you can see from the image above it is 26 inches (should fit right into the hole where it is replacing my older TV).
I did my best job trying to make sense of all the 720p, 1080p, 360f mumbo-jumbo and I think for the distance I’ll be sitting at having the 720p will work great (I’ll be sure to give you a follow up review too). I’m quickly becoming a bigger and bigger fan of NewEgg.com too, as that is where I ordered this, my current PC and my laptop now.
Grab a few more technical specs about this TV at NewEgg.com and let me know your thoughts!
· May 6, 2007 at 7:51 am · Personal
Tags: cult, dead-like-me, dvd, movie, news, shows, television
I never understood why those idiots at Showtime canceled Dead Like Me. It was one of the greatest shows and one of the few I made time to watch each and every week. It has been a few years since the cancellation - but the fan following just keeps building. Thanks to that - it looks like there might be a Dead Like Me movie in the works.
There is now talk of a Dead Like Me movie in the works, with Stephen Herek (Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Rock Star) supposedly on board to direct. The movie is slated to be a direct to DVD affair, but considering that this is where the show seemed to find its audience, I don’t think that will be a problem. No word yet on whether or not the entire original cast will return, or what involvement (if any) series creator Bryan Fuller will have.
All I can say is “Whoo hoo!” and I hope they can get it all together and produced at the same great level of acting and story writing that the TV show was done at. For more on Dead Like Me and it’s cult following (and I mean that in the nicest way) check out DeadLikeMeOnline.com.
· April 13, 2007 at 5:09 am · Hot Web Topics
Tags: bandwidth, direct2drive, download, television, the-shield, torrents, tv
Oh crap, I missed The Shield!
That was my thought Wednesday morning while working. Now when you miss a TV show there are several ways you can go to see it again. I could have searched for a rerun, but that would take too long. I haven’t ever downloaded any TV shows via one of the many services out there - so I thought this would be a perfect chance to try it out.
My first thought was to go to iTunes to download it. I checked, and it was available. Where’s the problem? I don’t want to keep it on my computer, and I want to be able to re-download it. There does the iTunes idea out the Window.
Next I remembered Amazon’s Unbox service. I found The Shield listed, but they still did not have Tuesday night’s episode.
There is always the torrent way - finding a seed for it somewhere, but that was ridiculously slow. Plus, if I can get a good quality video and get it fast, I don’t mind paying for it.
My last ditch effort paid off though. I found Direct2Drive after doing a little searching, and they had what I needed. Whoo hoo! Other than needing Internet Explorer to get it going (yuck) it was not a bad experience at all.
