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More Criminal Behavior

by grlucas on 03. Dec, 2008 in Technoculture, Television

Yes, we, the viewing public, are truly criminals. I mean, we must be to be treated this way.
Tonight, I got an interesting flag on a TiVo recording. I never watch Law & Order, but I received a text message that Katee Sakhoff would be a guest star. (OK, so I get texts about Battlestar Galactica. [...]

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I Spoke too Soon

by grlucas on 26. Nov, 2008 in Business, Technoculture, Television

I’m really tired of being treated like a criminal.
When are these big companies going to learn: the more they try to break my digital devices, the faster they will lose? The more they try to control their digital content with DRM, the more they damage themselves? They might be able to keep their content safe [...]

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TiVo!

by grlucas on 24. Nov, 2008 in Gadget, Television

Well, we’re TiVo people again.
Thanks to Circuit City going out of business here, we were able to score an HD TiVo box for $80. We had been thinking about ditching cable, but with the addition of more HD channels and now a brand new TiVo, we’ll be holding on to cable for a while.
Having the [...]

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Star Trek: 1966-2005

by grlucas on 06. Apr, 2005 in Television

Today’s Op-Ed section of the NYTimes prints the obituary of our long-beloved Star Trek. Since the Times only has its articles available for a short time, I’ll reprint the whole thing here:
By the middle of May, the “Star Trek” franchise will be no more, having died a death as long and lingering as — well, [...]

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