Movies, TV, & TiVo

According to Serious Eats, the New York Post has reported that neither Hell’s Kitchen contestant will really be the Executive Chef at Gordon Ramsay’s new LA “The London” restaurant.
Do you honestly think, my sweet pea, that I’m going to be that stupid and that vulnerable? That I would stick my ass to the window […]

I just noticed that the compete series of Deadwood is now available as a Complete Seasons 1-3 DVD Set for nearly $180 but you can still get the individual DVD Sets for Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3 for under $40 each!
Worse, according to multiple reviews there is supposedly no added content or […]

This must be the most absurd move by Comcast ever, and you don’t have to look hard to find absurd moves by Comcast, but anway I digress. Comcast reportedly told Chris Albrecht of NewTeeVee that they’d like to install cameras in their cable boxes so they may see who is watching the TV in your […]

Here is some more behind the scenes videos of Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere, Zachary Quinto, Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar, Greg Grunberg, David Anders, Malcolm McDowell and other cast members of Heroes.

Here is some more behind the scenes videos of Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere, Zachary Quinto, Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar, Greg Grunberg, David Anders, Malcolm McDowell and other cast members of Heroes.

Here is some more behind the scenes videos of Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere, Zachary Quinto, Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar, Greg Grunberg, David Anders, Malcolm McDowell and other cast members of Heroes.

Here is some more behind the scenes videos of Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere, Zachary Quinto, Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar, Greg Grunberg, David Anders, Malcolm McDowell and other cast members of Heroes.

If you’ve been waiting for a deal on a High Definition TiVo you can stop waiting.
Today, Amazon is offering the TiVo HD for only $249.00 which is over $50 off.
Amazon is also offering the TiVo Series3 HD for only $574.99, today. That is $225 off the $799.99 MSRP it was selling at until […]

Amazon Unbox and NBC have partnered to offer free downloads for NBC’s fall pilot episodes of Bionic Woman, Chuck, Journeyman, and Life weeks before they will air on live TV.
Here are direct links to the free episodes:

Bionic Woman

Chuck

Journeyman

Life

You’ll have to install the Amazon Unbox player to watch these videos or if […]

The deadline for renewing Veronica Mars is June 15, 2007 and the fans are in panic mode.
Hercules at AICN has launched a campaign to send Mars Bars to CW’s President of Entertainment, Dawn Ostroff.
You can buy a Mars Bar or a Snickers Almond Bars (the US version of an England Mars Bar) locally and […]

Choosing a unique gift for dad can be very difficult. Sure you could go with the typical Father’s Day gifts and get him a fancy shaver like the Braun 8995 360 Complete Men’s Shaver or Philips Norelco 9160XL SmartTouch-XL Men’s Shaver. But why go with the same old thing everyone else gets for dad?
Nearly every […]

Bob Zitter, HBO’s Chief Technology Officer, wants to rename DRM, “DCE” or “Digital Consumer Enablement” in order to trick consumers into thinking it’s not quite as nasty.
At National Cable & Telecommunications Association show in Las Vegas, Zitter said:
Digital Consumer Enablement, would more accurately describe technology that allows consumers “to use content in ways they haven’t […]

I’ve had my first Mac for just about a month now and I’m absolutely not missing Microsoft Windows in the slightest. However, I am missing some applications that are native to Windows.
I’m using the following programs in Parallels Desktop for Mac but I wish there were native Mac OS X versions of them so […]

McAfee is warning of a Trojan that installs a rootkit and changes the DNS server to one controlled by the attackers. The Trojan is reportedly disguised as a program that claims to access and play different video files such as Movies downloaded from the Internet.
The program is called MovieCommander and is distributed on many download […]

Earlier today E! was reporting that the critically acclaimed TV series Veronica Mars was canceled by the CW. Now the E! story has been updated and it seems the show might be back for a fourth season but will fast forward into the future and feature Veronica as an FBI agent.
If Veronica Mars was […]

TiVo2DVD can access a Series 2 TiVo on your network and burn television shows and movies directly to a DVD on a Linux operating system. It supports processing multiple programs at once and creates a DVD with menus. It doesn’t get much simpler for the Linux folks.
[TiVo2DVD]

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TiVo and Amazon.com partnered to allow you to download movies directly to your Series2 or Series3 TiVo.
Signing up and getting those movies on to your TiVo is pretty easy. Just follow these steps:

Your TiVo must be connected to the Internet through a home network. TiVo offers a wireless adapter to make this easy.

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Apple aired a television commercial for the iPhone during the 79th Annual Academy Awards Show tonight. The ad aired at 8:51PM EST, and featured TV and movie scenes of many famous actors answering telephones throughout the years. It began with Lucielle Ball and ended with Mr. Incredible.

Notice how they didn’t specifically call it the […]

Wow and I get accused of being bullish on Apple.
Chris Whitmore an analyst for Deutsche Bank is reportedly saying that the Apple TV will take 20 to 30 percent of the DVD market within a few years.
I think this is being overly optimistic. iTunes still lacks the catalogs from several of the major studios. […]

Robert Cringely seems to think that the Apple TV, Apple’s upcoming media center, is going to operate as a node on an iTunes powered peer-to-peer network.
“If the Apple TV is plugged in it is turned on. Did you notice that? That means the hard drive will have at least the capability of running 24/7. Now […]