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“Bones” S5 Season Finale “The Beginning in the End” – A Review [Updated]

May 21, 2010

Unlike Bones season finale from their 4th season, “The End in the Beginning” season five’s season finale will not be a lighthearted musical dream sequence. The promos for tonight make it look like Brennan’s (Emily Deschanel) fear of her feelings for Booth (David Boreanaz) may lead her to a rash decision. In the promos, she [...]

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Yet Another Tragic CW Web Viewing or is it Comcast?

May 5, 2010

I had to do it one more time.  I had to watch The Vampire Diaries online again.  Last time I swore I’d never watch something online at The CW’s website, but circumstances and the evil of destiny had other plans for this poor, wayward TV viewer. Due to reasons and complications that don’t need exploring [...]

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Comcast On Demand Services Has Some Pretty Good Free Offerings

February 19, 2010

I was talking to someone at work today and it just happened to come up that they missed Caprica last week.  I said well at least they’ve got a few weeks before Comcast pulls it off their On Demand station.  Then again, judging from the ratings for the show, you and everyone else has missed [...]

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USPTS Channel On-Screen Time Listings are Incorrect

January 23, 2010

This last week or so, my wife has been tuning into the Nationals for the figure skating.  These are the events that are setting the Olympic teams, so if you’re a fan of the sport and the Olympics, these are important. The USPTS network is covering it all for the qualifiers.  Right now they’ve got [...]

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Dear Comcast: Why The Digital Interference? [Consumer]

January 18, 2010

Ever since we converted to digital, why is it my picture gets all blocky, choppy and the signal drops out for 10-30 seconds a night? Every night it seems we get some kind of interruption.  Sigh.  That’s all.  I just needed to vent.

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Conan O'Brien Lashes Out at NBC on his NBC Show

January 12, 2010

Now that’s classic… when you’re in the middle of serious legal issues and you’re getting the pooch … well, you know what I mean, what better place to do it than on the platform that NBC gave you, to tear into NBC?  AWESOME…  you go boy!!! He did his own version of ripping into NBC [...]

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Comcast or Syfy: What Happened Last Friday Night?

December 16, 2009

Last Friday (December 11th, 2009), I was patiently waiting for Men in Black (I think) to air at 7 p.m. on the Syfy Channel on Comcast. You guys (Syfy) had ads all day long about it.  You even told me at the end of the previous show that it was coming up next. I was [...]

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Comcast Buying Into NBC – Is The Economy to Blame? [Cinema Static]

December 11, 2009

Did you know that while we were reeling from the economy in 2008, Comcast made $34.3 billion?  Their “take home” pay after all was said and done was $2.5 billion. And in ’08 & ’09, when other companies were giving customers some slack in reduced prices or extended sales or what not, I don’t remember [...]

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TV: What Happened To My NFL Channel Comcast? [Cinema Static]

November 14, 2009

There I was, enjoying the perfect lazy Saturday morning for once.  I was enjoying a Classic Football game on the NFL Channel on Comcast.  It was the January 8th 2000 game between the Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans. We’re in the 3rd quarter and a pass play was just made by Tennessee when… BAM! [...]

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Cable TV: Dear Comcast, Thanks for the Thin Screen

October 21, 2009

This must be a new feature from Comcast. My wife is watching So You Think You Can Dance and the picture is squished thin. It’s like they took wide screen mode and turned it on it’s side. My poor wife is having issues with this odd mode.  On the bright side, the commercials are also [...]

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Comcast: Pink Slips then Networks

October 3, 2009

Comcast is a favorite subject in many circles… some circles angst on it, others are OK with it.  The most pain I’ve ever experienced from Comcast was that monodrone commercial that made me cringe, related to Comcast Town or whatever it was called. But I saw some interesting bits in the news of late.

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Dear Comcast, I'm Going To Be Calling Soon

September 28, 2009

Dear Comcast, I’ll be calling later today.  I’d like to know why it takes more than 7 seconds to hit change channel button and the actual deed to take place. I’ll be calling with a civil tone.  I don’t want to carry forward any of the other angst issues I’ve had in the past because [...]

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A Curious Bit About Comcast and the Digitial Conversion

August 8, 2009

With the digital conversion, we were suppose to hurry and install our digital transport adapters (DTA’s) to our non-converter TV’s before the deadline of June 12th so we don’t lose access to channels in the upper range that we were receiving on our televisions.  What I mean by non-converter is a TV that is not [...]

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