Negative Space: television
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Amusing Ourselves to Death is a disjointed effort to prove that the speed of modern communications is killing us, but it ignores basic features of modern communications, such as the ability of both sides to respond; and to the extent that modern communications empowers the individual he sees that as an evil, preferring the bundling of individuals by self-appointed elites as in the age of Tammany Hall.
- Apple TV: Movie Streaming Overload
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There are so many sources for streaming movies and television for free that I don’t have time to watch Netflix or Hulu.
- Gilligan’s Island: Passion Fruit
- What happened after the series ended and before the movies? Four men, three women, alone on a beautiful deserted island?
- The Hobbit
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This enchanting version of Tolkien’s Hobbit is a fine movie, but a horrible DVD. Sound effects and dialogue have been removed for no apparent reason. I can’t see any reason to buy this unless you’d be just as happy watching it with the sound off.
- Internet users socialize less, talk to people more
- A new survey reveals that Internet users socialize less because they are spending more time with e-mail and message boards and less time watching television.
- Land of the Lost
- “Marshall, Will, and Holly, on a routine expedition, met the greatest earthquake ever known. High on the rapids, it tossed their tiny raft, and tossed them down a thousand feet below, to the land of the lost.” Wow, I haven’t seen that thing for twenty years and I still remember it. I can’t believe they’re releasing this on DVD. Does this mean I have to break out my twenty-year-old pot stash too?
- The Night Stalker
- Carl Kolchak’s original movie, doubled with the pilot for the television series, “The Night Strangler”.
- Remington Steele
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I watched this show pretty much only in reruns back in the eighties. It started the year I went off to college, so I only watched it during Christmas break (we had a long one) and summer break. While I loved the show at the time, I wasn’t sure what to expect watching it again twenty years later. Watched in order for the first time, the show holds up very well.
- Tablo TV without a subscription
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The Tablo TV box without a subscription is still more useful than your old VCR. It could be a lot better, though.
- Tablo TV: Pause and rewind live television
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Now that I have an Apple TV, I almost never turn on broadcast television. After getting used to the better interface and the better control, getting stuck on someone else’s schedule was too annoying. The Tablo TV makes live television interesting again by running it through an Apple TV app.
- Who killed broadcast TV?
- Broadcast television’s forecast demise may be the result of government experts thinking they know better than the rest of us.
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- Bewitched—The Complete First Season•
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Watching this was the first time I watched the series in order. It was amazing watching the first season from their marriage through their first year together. Samantha was a god learning to walk on earth; she really treated humans as if they were pets.
- South Park Season 1•
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I was first introduced to South Park through the movie (which also kicks ass). The television shows are amazing. Variety, of all things, calls it “gloriously subversive art”. Yeah, whatever. It’s great shit that you must eat.
