Except that they're not available in the UK. Duh. So if I want to watch Lost, instead of going to Apple and giving them trivial amounts of money in exchange for a fast, clean, legal copy with no weird station idents, I have to go to a torrent-hunting site and spend 9 hours downloading it instead.
I had a row with M yesterday about television, at the end of which I said "You know, we never, ever watch broadcast television. We know from
coth that if you detune your TV you can use it as a DVD playing device and not pay the license fee. We could just do that and then you would have No More Cartoon Network At All Ever Again until you earn enough money to buy us a new license fee. Think on that." Pay-as-you-go TV at a sensible rate brings that scenario closer. Honestly. I ditched the NTL family pack to get rid of Cartoon Network. How dare the buggers go freeview?
(unless you're talking about series 2 not yet shown in UK in which case: develop patience, my child :-)
pps can this be the same person who was complaining about lack of originality in Serenity?? I like Lost (mainly for the scenery and the totty) but it is tosh of the first water - makes Firefly look like Kafka crossed with Oscar Wilde.
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I already have Telewest cable (which of course you can't set to your programme except on the day of broadcast, what sort of crap is that?) so all I have to do now is remember to set the recorder to record the stuff I want, and the cable box to switch over at the right time. Hopefully this weekend I'll figure out how to do that!
In the meantime, it was crappy VHS recording "Loudon Wainwright at the BBC" this evening (and the Eric Clapton thing as well).
Video is indeed crap but recordable DVD is tumbling.
But finding out when things are - just buy a Sunday paper! they all have TV supplements now! This has the plus that you also find out what new interesting stuff might be on, particularly of the one off variety - one of the major objections I have to Tivo culture is that it encourages people towatch the same thing semper eternally.
It is a measure of how deeply I have fallen for Veronica Mars that, having now watched the first 24 episodes via bittorrent, in 26 minutes I will actually watch the latest episode via broadcast TV. I don't believe I've done that in this decade.
I keep feeling slightly disappointed by this season, but then I find myself thinking about whether Dylan and the new chick will end up together. That's not like me! The show needs a disclaimer: VM may be both subversive and seductive.
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I heard that they were going to be, but at the price of £1.89. Which says something about the exchange rate...
Do you know if the new iPods will allow you to upload your own video, or only that from the iTMS?
Any bets on how long before we see screen pics of someone either booting Linux or running Doom on the new iPod?
As for the porting Linux thing, well how else are they going to install all those groovy 80s video games without something to run the emulators on?
I can almost cope wtih the idea that a video game with a strong plot, eg, Ultima 7, had been made into a movie.
But. You know. Doom, the Movie. You know everything you need to know about this film from the title. And still, there are critics out there complaining that it's mindless. Well. Duh.