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patentdragonAnyhow, it's been just over a month since my A/V set-up got its bargain upgrade...
...and I've been diving into the sometimes tepid waters of digital TV - so far, the best stuff seems to be the heaps of '60s/'70s "'cult' stuff" on ITV4. A whole bunch of new US shows get their first, and sometimes only airings on the digital-only channels (Terminator etc. is a great example) - but is "too much of a good thing" not necessarily a good thing? Does all the channel-juggling and schedule-deciphering required to find some of these shows end up sapping your enthusiasm for something that started off well, but of which you managed to miss a subsequent, and often crucial episode (which so often it isn't your fault, as the listings are faulty to begin with)?
Of course, it doesn't always matter - Bionic Woman may be a decent reworking of the basic idea, but it fails to grab the attention. Could the days of "must-watch TV" be over as far as US imports are concerned, or am I just suffering from 24, Lost, Prison Break and Battlestar Galactica starvation, to name but four...? Sky's free digital channel was supposed to show stuff from their main satellite channel several months after it was first shown, but after a couple of seasons of 24 - the ones directly after the Beeb lost interest - and Season 1 of BG... NOTHING - except maybe Futurama. The rest is just "dog-shrink" crap and that awful thing with Tia Carrera in it...
It's not all bad, but oh, it could all be so much better. Do we really need about six shopping channels?
Meanwhile... There's major news on the MoN-107 "A Darkening Tide" front - I may just have "broken the back" of the log-jam, in a quite unexpected way. The story starts in an atypical way, and for most of the development cycle, I've been wondering how to connect that start, which is actually the end (trust me on this), to the rest of the story. Until today...
And finally... Oh, and I just realised that yesterday's watching of Smokin' Aces meant I had, at last, caught up with my DVD backlog.
Anyone got any idea when Cloverfield is out on DVD...? (Answer: Amazon, 9th June. Look it up, stupid.)
...and I've been diving into the sometimes tepid waters of digital TV - so far, the best stuff seems to be the heaps of '60s/'70s "'cult' stuff" on ITV4. A whole bunch of new US shows get their first, and sometimes only airings on the digital-only channels (Terminator etc. is a great example) - but is "too much of a good thing" not necessarily a good thing? Does all the channel-juggling and schedule-deciphering required to find some of these shows end up sapping your enthusiasm for something that started off well, but of which you managed to miss a subsequent, and often crucial episode (which so often it isn't your fault, as the listings are faulty to begin with)?
Of course, it doesn't always matter - Bionic Woman may be a decent reworking of the basic idea, but it fails to grab the attention. Could the days of "must-watch TV" be over as far as US imports are concerned, or am I just suffering from 24, Lost, Prison Break and Battlestar Galactica starvation, to name but four...? Sky's free digital channel was supposed to show stuff from their main satellite channel several months after it was first shown, but after a couple of seasons of 24 - the ones directly after the Beeb lost interest - and Season 1 of BG... NOTHING - except maybe Futurama. The rest is just "dog-shrink" crap and that awful thing with Tia Carrera in it...
It's not all bad, but oh, it could all be so much better. Do we really need about six shopping channels?
Meanwhile... There's major news on the MoN-107 "A Darkening Tide" front - I may just have "broken the back" of the log-jam, in a quite unexpected way. The story starts in an atypical way, and for most of the development cycle, I've been wondering how to connect that start, which is actually the end (trust me on this), to the rest of the story. Until today...
And finally... Oh, and I just realised that yesterday's watching of Smokin' Aces meant I had, at last, caught up with my DVD backlog.
Anyone got any idea when Cloverfield is out on DVD...? (Answer: Amazon, 9th June. Look it up, stupid.)
