Best show on television.

[Fargull]

I have been watching Into the West which for my viewing dollars is much better than the rest of the crap.  I am also watching the Closer and CSI.

[HaemishM]

When will l be able to download TV shows I've missed and watch them on my PC?  I missed BSG - is the one on tonight the first one?  Going to set up the TiVo now so I don't miss more.

Right now.

Oh, you meant legally.

You'll see legal downloads for TV when the DVD market on TV shows starts to dry up, which is sort of happening already thanks to there being just way too damn much available for the shelf space. When TV sees that revenue start to shrink, they'll look for another avenue, and downloading is the next big thing. Of course, expect years of hemming and hawing and shitty, ass-raping digital rights management bullshit.

[ClydeJr]

Yes, but there's bias I missed BSG - is the one on tonight the first one?  Going to set up the TiVo now so I don't miss more.

Yup, the one they're showing tonight is a repeat of Friday night's episode called "Scattered".

[Sky]

They need to interface with iTunes though.  I want to play my music lists on my TV sometimes.

That's why you hook up your pc to the home theater system. It rocks....literally.

The rest of TV can go straight to Hell since I really just can't put up with the programming selection anymore.

I fully agree, and it's why the majority of my viewing is the HD channels. Usually far better than the SD content, even though there are about 350 less channels.

And a big thing to remember: almost no commercials on a lot of the HD channels.

I also forgot to mention TNTHD, just because there are so many commercials I never watch it. I despise commercials....which is why I'm in jones-mode without my DVR. Watching the daily show is painful because I can't sit through commercials.

You'll see legal downloads for TV when the DVD market on TV shows starts to dry up, which is sort of happening already thanks to there being just way too damn much available for the shelf space.

They are also expensive. I was going to buy a few for mom last christmas, but the sticker shock drove me away. Blatant money grab on dead properties ftw.

[HaemishM]

You'll see legal downloads for TV when the DVD market on TV shows starts to dry up, which is sort of happening already thanks to there being just way too damn much available for the shelf space.

They are also expensive. I was going to buy a few for mom last christmas, but the sticker shock drove me away. Blatant money grab on dead properties ftw.

The worst part is that the prices have gotten BETTER than when they first start releasing stuff on DVD. The original Farscape eps on DVD were $20 for 2 episodes, which was blatant asspiracy. But yeah, they are still expensive. Which is why I recommend some place like Half.com for things like that. You can usually find good condition DVD's for almost half as much as retail.

[WayAbvPar]

I don't mind paying $25-$30 a season for a decent show. Unfortunately, the HBO series (The Sopranos, Deadwood, etc) are like 3 times that price for less episodes! $$7 an episode is a little more than I want to pay, even for stuff as good as that.

[Xanthippe]

I don't mind paying $25-$30 a season for a decent show. Unfortunately, the HBO series (The Sopranos, Deadwood, etc) are like 3 times that price for less episodes! $$7 an episode is a little more than I want to pay, even for stuff as good as that.

I have way too much crap on media already.  It's a storage nightmare.  I don't want to own the Sopranos.  I can rent it whenever I like.  If it was up to me, I'd own no DVDs at all other than the occasional music dvd (Buena Vista Social Club, or Aja).

I have tons of vinyl, cds, tapes, dvds, video tapes, books, and I either have to cull the collection or stop collecting.  (I vote for stopping collecting; my spouse needs the product in his own possession for reasons known only to him).  The vinyl's a problem.  The attic is too hot and the basement is too damp.  We live in a house too small already for 4 people, not to mention lots of crap.

I want a media server, and I want it now.  I want to download content - all of it, TV/movies/music/games/books.  I don't want yet another new kind of media.

[stray]

I was the same way, so I just decided to sell most of my stuff off. I've limited my DVD collection to just "lonely guy" movies now (The Man With No Name Trilogy, Taxi Driver, Road Warrior, American Werewolf in London, Edward Scissorhands, et al), and my CD's to only desert island discs (ripped everything else to hard disk and sold them), and my vinyl collection now consists of a copy of the Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" and Richard Pryor's "That N*gga's Crazy!" For no reason really.

I haven't decided what to do with my books as of yet.

Basically what I'm saying is: Find a "theme" and stick to that.

[Yegolev]

and my vinyl collection now consists of a copy of the Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" and Richard Pryor's "That N*gga's Crazy!" For no reason really.
...
Basically what I'm saying is: Find a "theme" and stick to that.

Got it.

[stray]

Heh. Call it a crossroads, I guess. My vinyl collection was jumbled to begin with. I haven't decided on a theme to build upon yet. Will it be "Country albums recorded by bands that weren't known for Country"? Or "Albums recorded by post-Lenny Bruce stand up comics"? It could go either way at this point.

[Hanzii]

They need to interface with iTunes though.  I want to play my music lists on my TV sometimes.

That's why you hook up your pc to the home theater system. It rocks....literally.
...
They are also expensive. I was going to buy a few for mom last christmas, but the sticker shock drove me away. Blatant money grab on dead properties ftw.

I'm building a box to put in the storage room next to my kitchen in my new house. 500 Gb Hitachi HDD with all my music and downloaded television on it. The lcd will be in our kitchen (using the DiNovo Bluetooth combo to control). In the living room I have a Pinnacle ShowCenter (mediaextender) and upstairs I have an extender that only does music and internet radio. Now the two extenders use different streaming software, so I'm curious whether they'll work together (my PIXMA IP4000R printer is wireless, so I can use this from that box, the office pc and the laptop)
I'm also thinking about replacing the Pinnacle with the KISS DP-558, which will also replace my Philips harddiskrecorder - only problem is that the KISS isn't nearly as good as the Philips as a dvd-player and for timeslip and hdd-playback, but beats it as a DivX-player, media-extender and with added internet features like an EPG and internet radio etc. (bear in mind, that we have nothing like TiVo over here, so the electronic program guide built into the KISS is the best we can get)

I wish the EU open market would be a bit more open. We can buy tv-shows and whatnot from England (but could do it cheaper from the US and Canada, so who cares) but we can't rent. Over here we can only rent the very few tv-shows, that are subtitled, and that's a limited bunch. The rest we have to buy at the ridiculous high prices or torrent... which brings me back my DivX enabled media extender setup :mrgreen:

[Yegolev]

My theme is "David Bowie", although sometimes I listen to other things.  Keeps things simple since I can easily store thirty CDs in my truck.

[Strazos]

Description.

Wow...um...that's a lot of...stuff...

I have a TV with cable in my room, and do everything else besides console/TV on my PC.

Um...

[stray]

My theme is "David Bowie", although sometimes I listen to other things.  Keeps things simple since I can easily store thirty CDs in my truck.

Does that include "Labyrinth", "Basquiat", and "The Hunger" on DVD too?

[Signe]

I felt anxious reading Hanzii's post.  I didn't understand a bit of it!

There is so much in this world I don't understand.

I'm sad.

[Yegolev]

My theme is "David Bowie", although sometimes I listen to other things.  Keeps things simple since I can easily store thirty CDs in my truck.

Does that include "Labyrinth", "Basquiat", and "The Hunger" on DVD too?

I meant music but I might have Labrynth on VHS somewhere.  I like pretty much everything Bowie ever did even though I don't have everything.  I have only recently come into money, you see.  I only listen to music during the commute (~90-100 mins daily) and when I am going through the bedtime routine with my son (mp3 on PC), and in most cases it is Bowie.  My wife can't believe that Sam goes to sleep listening to Station to Station.  That's my boy!  Yesterday I switched from a week of Space Oddity to Heathen, which will probably stay in the player until next week at least.

My wife is sick of Bowie.

[stray]

Be sure to include "albums Bowie has produced" as well  . Which would include the Stooges' Raw Power, Iggy's first two solo albums...And...Not much else.

[Yegolev]

Be sure to include "albums Bowie has produced" as well  . Which would include the Stooges' Raw Power, Iggy's first two solo albums...And...Not much else.

He wrote some songs for Iggy as well, I think... have to look that up again, though.  Not sure.

Yeah, my collection isn't complete, not at all.  I don't have "Under Pressure", for example, nor any Tin Machine.  Hell, I have not gotten around to ordering Alladin Sane, but I am getting a lot of mileage out of my current set.  Too bad he never got that musical based on Orwell's 1984 off the ground, I bet that would have been wacky.

[stray]

He wrote the music for Lust for Life, and majority of the Idiot. Great album, but Ig's version of China Girl sucks. I don't like the song to begin with, but Bowie's is much better. He also helped write songs on Blah, Blah, Blah.

Anyways, good theme though. 

[Yegolev]

but Ig's version of China Girl sucks.

Naturally.  I also don't care for Nirvana's treatment of The Man Who Sold the World.  Needs more "clicky-thing".

[Sky]

[HaemishM]

I still think Outside is the best album Bowie ever did, and wish he and Eno had actually finished up the concept trilogy of albums that thing was supposed to spawn.

[WayAbvPar]

but Ig's version of China Girl sucks.

Naturally.  I also don't care for Nirvana's treatment of The Man Who Sold the World.  Needs more "clicky-thing".

Really? That is one of my favorite covers of all time. I thought Cobain's voice was perfect for it.

[Yegolev]

Really? That is one of my favorite covers of all time. I thought Cobain's voice was perfect for it.

It's a good cover, and I actually like Nirvana.  Not better than the original, though.  See Sky's post.

[Llava]

I didn't want to make a whole new thread on this, so this necropost seemed my best option since this thread was initially about Rescue Me.

SPOILERS kinda:

It's rare that I'm so glad to watch someone get murdered in cold blood.  It's especially impressive that they made me hate him so much without giving him any dialogue at all.  But that fucker had it coming.  Murdering, callous bastard.  Hope he felt every second of that bullet.

Okay, so I went from thinking the show was interesting to becoming quite addicted.  I am now freaking out that there won't be new episodes until 2006.  I'll already be swinging my Revolution virtual sword around the room by then.

[Abagadro]

SPOILER REPLY:

You never actually saw the driver-guy get shot. It's possible uncle teddy was shot by the cops.  Just sayin.

[schild]

Finished the complete run of Dead like Me last week. That was freaking awesome. Mandy Patinkin and Ellen Muth were just unreal in the show.

Right now the only things I'm watching are Rome and Prison Break - both of which I'm enjoying. I'll probably start watching Alias when it comes on as well.

[Llava]

SPOILER REPLY:

True, I guess.  His facial expression seemed like he took a bullet, though, while it looked like the cops just tackled Teddy.

[TheWalrus]

 I think one of the things I like about Rescue Me so much is that everything is NOT always alright in the end. While sometimes farfetched, it's true to how shitty life (and death) can be.

 Oh and Haem, Over There is actually a pretty damn good show.

[Furiously]

Since I know Suzy on the biggest loser, I'm going to go with that right now.

(ok - maybe Battlestar Galactica is my favorite)

[Llava]

SPOILER REPLY:

True, I guess.  His facial expression seemed like he took a bullet, though, while it looked like the cops just tackled Teddy.

I've decided that Teddy DID shoot the guy, and he was wounded fatally.

I've decided this because there are no more episodes until 2006, and I don't want to think about that fucker between now and then.  Very rare for a fictional character to piss me off so much.

[Fabricated]

I picked up the first season of House M.D. recently. Great show. I've never really payed attention to actor names, so I don't know who plays House, but whoever he is deserves an award. He's fucking awesome.

[Morfiend]

Nip/Tuck starts on tuesday. I can wait. Least season left us hanging pretty badly.

[Strazos]

I know I'm not much of a font of info for TV, but I liked the two new TNT series, "Closer" and "Wanted".

[Johny Cee]

Finished the complete run of Dead like Me last week. That was freaking awesome. Mandy Patinkin and Ellen Muth were just unreal in the show.

Right now the only things I'm watching are Rome and Prison Break - both of which I'm enjoying. I'll probably start watching Alias when it comes on as well.

Yah, I liked Dead Like Me.

Had some great (and coarse) conversations.  Never really warmed to Daisy,  though I liked the Roxie character.  The show was just a pile of likeable, fairly bizarre, and interesting characters.  Some of which happened to be dead.

The problem with a show like this is it cuts across too many genres.  It was a drama, office comedy, and supernatural show wrapped up in one.  And it probably alienated quite a few viewers because of that.

Just watched season one of Lost on dvd, and enjoyed it.  Reminds me alot of the Xfiles.  You have a story arc that touches on the fantastic,  with interesting characters.  Right now,  they seem to be giving away just enough of the mystery to keep you coming back. 

Of course,  my biggest curiosity right now is if they're going anywhere with the angle of two characters named after philosophers who wrote about government and society?  (John Locke and Rousseau)  If a fucking de Tocqueville shows up this season,  I'm going to be seriously confused.