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TV Errors
We were watching Mythbusters last night, and I noticed an error. They were seeing if police badges could be bulletproof. They had two batches of badges, both of them with geeky numbers on them. Some had 42, and others had 3.14 on them. At one point they shot at a badge with number 42 on it, and after they shot it, it was a badge with 3.14 on it. I am sure they took many shots at many badges and just didn’t noticed the badge numbers in the editing.
I love looking for errors in TV shows and movies. Sometimes I watch background stuff looking for errors so much that I don’t even know what was going on in the show that I am watching. I am always looking at how they shoot different scenes, rather than watching the actual content. Maybe that’s why most of TV bores me. I just don’t know how to watch it right.
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TiVo Update
So a couple weeks ago our TiVo failed. It was a DirecTV TiVo that they no longer make. The wife HATES the DirecTV DVR that we have downstairs, so another DirecTV TiVo was the only way to go. Since it was cheaper to buy one used rather than trying to fix out old one, that’s what I did. I ordered the HD one so we could get HD channels on our upstairs TV too.
So earlier this week we got it, and I got it hooked up, but guess what? No HD! The DirecTV TiVo only supports the old HD channels. The ones in the 70s range. So we get five HD channels upstairs. Not very cool since we get almost every major network in HD downstairs.
The wife doesn’t care though. She would rather watch standard Def than deal with the crappy DirecTV DVR. She already said we are getting two of the new DirecTV Tivos when they come out next summer. We both can’t wait.
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Watch History Hackers On Friday
A lot of people are excited for the new seasons of their favorite TV shows starting up again, not me. I am bored by most of TV. I like to watch intelligent shows where I can learn something. Jeopardy, Mythbusters, and Smash Labs are about all I am watching on TV these day. I watch way more stuff online.
Bre Pettis is a guy that I have been watching online for years. He makes some pretty cool things. Well, he has a new TV show pilot called “History Hackers” that airs this Friday on the History Channel. I really hope the show gets picked up. These are the kinds of shows that I want to see on the TV.
Here is a little teaser of the show.
If you like the show Bre has a list of things you can do to help make the pilot a TV show. It will be great if it happens.