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Post by ZombieGeorge on Apr 13, 2013 9:37:43 GMT -5
Petite Fille hipped me to this. It's a three episode series exploring the idea of zombie revivification. It's a concept that we play with UD but has been explored in movies too much (except the recent teen romantic comedy Warm Bodies)
There is a lot here to like, especially for those of us who find the notion of death cults interesting (Spider).
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Post by Petite Fille on Apr 16, 2013 18:40:19 GMT -5
Oh, I got something good in the mail today. Three guesses what I'm going to be watching tonight. (Thank you, George!)
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Post by ZombieGeorge on Apr 16, 2013 19:09:03 GMT -5
You're welcome. Enjoy!
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Post by Snuffleuff on May 19, 2013 20:59:31 GMT -5
I just read about this in SFX and came here to ask if anyone had seen it! Frickin' BBC... I just can't believe they're continuing to make interesting shows after I've moved back here, and they don't tell me! Anyway, off to search on the "usual" sites to see if I can find it. The behind-the-scenes article was pretty interesting, particularly about the size of the series bible and the potential for more stories in the same world.
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Post by Petite Fille on May 20, 2013 14:59:51 GMT -5
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Post by Snuffleuff on May 20, 2013 16:58:57 GMT -5
Alas, no BBC America here - We cut the cord a long time ago, and are strictly Roku-and-internet-only these days. Fortunately there is EZTV for situations like this.
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Post by Petite Fille on May 20, 2013 20:03:25 GMT -5
I don't know very much about the Roku. The only person I know that has one couldn't get it set up correctly so he threw it in a drawer in his coffee table and that sucker hasn't seen the light of day in almost a year and a half.
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Post by Snuffleuff on May 20, 2013 21:00:18 GMT -5
Wow, how sad! My Roku has probably been the best value in a tech purchase that I've ever made. I love that little sucker to death. It handles streaming channels from all over and has hundreds available. We watch our Netflix through it, plus Amazon, Vudu, Plex, Crackle, Midnight Pulp, and about a dozen indie horror channels. It's groovy. I didn't have any problems getting it set up - All you have to do is give it your wireless network login and off it goes.
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Post by Petite Fille on May 21, 2013 11:39:59 GMT -5
I'm not sure we watch the same kind of things. I hate paying $250 a month for cable and internet, especially when Comcast has so many outages due to the work they're (supposedly) doing to upgrade the system. But I'm pretty addicted to a bunch of different series on the premium channels and I'm sure I can't live without them yet. I'm shopping for a new tv for the living room but the right tv stand is proving to be harder to find than the tv! I'll look at the Roku while I'm out prowling. By the way, if "In the Flesh" does hit BBC America I can burn a copy and send it to you if you haven't picked it up by then. I'd send you a copy of what I got from George but it's MP4 format and I'm not sure how to copy it. It's probably not that big of a deal but I can't guarantee I have the patience to sit here and figure it out right now.
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Post by Snuffleuff on May 21, 2013 23:16:38 GMT -5
Thanks, but that's OK, I've already got it and we've watched the first two eps now. EZTV had it in MP4 - Georgie and I probably got the same files. I'm really enjoying it so far. The bouncy zombie girl is great fun. It reminds me a bit of Warm Bodies in its examination of what being a zombie is, from the zombie perspective. I've just got my fingers crossed that BBC has a better finale in mind than the Warm Bodies novel ending, which I really hated.
Re: Roku. Ours was $89 IIRC, for the top line one with the RF remote (Which means it doesn't have to be pointed at the screen to work, and can also be used like an on-screen mouse for Roku games. My wife is addicted to playing Angry Birds on the TV) The advantage is that once the Roku is paid for, you only have the Netflix $9/month to pay, plus any other specific pay channels you want. And thus far, I haven't found anything else to bother with. We subscribed to Amazon prime streaming for a while, but they didn't have anything Netflix doesn't have. If you're curious to see if your favorite shows are on Netflix, you can always search their site for titles. They're getting a lot of TV series stuff now. There's also Hulu, which is around $9/month IIRC and has *all* the new TV series. The huge PBS channel library is all free, plus YouTube and most of the other channels of cheese movies. It's interesting to watch as an experiment in action, because you can clearly tell that the channel people are trying different things - Some run movies with commercials, others charge a small monthly fee to access, and others mix and match.
Also, we've got regular TV via our home antenna, too, so we get the main networks that way. I'm seeing more cable channels beginning to migrate to the Roku, and am curious to see where it will lead. I agree that it may not be what you want at the moment, if you're hooked on HGTV garden shows or something, but I suspect it's going to be a big player in the future.
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Post by Petite Fille on May 22, 2013 5:54:14 GMT -5
I'd love to hear what you think about the ending to In The Flesh but now that you've said you hated the ending to Warm Bodies, if you tell I'll know what to expect (or not!) and you'll spoil Warm Bodies for me. It doesn't hit DVD and PPV until June 4. In case you and Em didn't finish the series last night, all I'm going to say is that I thought the ending to In The Flesh left very little room for a sequel. Hoomans being what they are, anything beyond the initial three episodes would only explore minor variations on the same theme. And I'm not really into things like HGTV gardening shows but I do watch a lot of PBS, the Science and History channels, AMC's The Walking Dead, the HBO series Game of Thrones, and Showtime's The Borgias and Nurse Jackie. There's also some other shows I watch on network like Revenge, The Good Wife and Grimm. (Sunday night was always packed with shows I liked and sometimes it would take until Thursday to watch them all.) I stopped watching True Blood when they revealed that Sooki is a f**king fairy but I might catch up just so I can finish the series when the final season airs in June. Hulu, Netflix, Amazon.... choices choices.... I'm looking at a smart tv so I wonder how all of this fits together and what I'll already have access to once the network is hooked up. Youtube will certainly be there. Hubby thinks we need to see Roku in action before he'd be comfortable cutting the cord so we might offer to set Jason's up for him and take a test drive.
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Post by Snuffleuff on May 22, 2013 15:31:03 GMT -5
Cord cutting won't work for you if you're big into network sports. AFAIK there's virtually zip in big sports broadcast via streaming. If you are willing & able to use torrents and such, it's easy to forego HBO via cable just to get the occasional show we follow, like GoT.
I *strongly* suspect that sometime in the next 5 years we'll see HBO Go available via direct subscription streaming, because there's a huge demand for it but cord cutters just will NOT spend $80+ per month for cable and another $20+ on top of that just to watch one series they can easily torrent. If HBO offered its catalog via direct streaming for just its subscription fee alone, it would be a different story.
We've only begun to explore the new PBS streaming channel on the Roku. It's huge. Tons of stuff. Between all their documentaries and series show libraries (This Old House, Woodcraft, American Masters, etc etc) and all the BBC documentaries on Netflix, there's plenty of educational stuff to watch.
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Post by Petite Fille on May 24, 2013 13:10:20 GMT -5
I liked This Old House and the New Yankee Workshop but I watch PBS almost as much as I watch any other channel. And sorry about the MIA. I was on gardening and chipmunk duty earlier this week and didn't see a cloud of pine tree pollen until it hit me right in the face. I've been trying to shake off a bad headache and fever since. But oh mah Gad! No sports? J/K, I don't think I'd miss a sports package since all I watch UT football, and sometimes I don't even sit still long enough to watch the whole game. But hubby would miss it. I can be watching a movie and leave to get something to drink and even though I'm gone for ONE MINUTE, I'll come back and he's watching softball or baseball or worse... NASCAR! (I call that sport "shiny little cars going 'round and 'round".) It's interesting that you should say that about HBO Go going direct subscription streaming, though. What came to mind was an article I saw this week about a (then) new technology shutting down a whole industry years ago. I'm referring to digital technology and imagery shutting down a giant... Kodak! I try to keep up with changing and emerging technology but it's difficult for the average person to forecast how new technologies will affect future markets. (Wish I'd seen that one coming! A modest investment there would have made a bundle of money.) You just keep talking. I'm listening. I think I'm going to have to table the Roku for a bit but I may have found the tv I want. What's interesting about these (supposedly)Smart tvs and the new ones that are Google enabled is that some of them have actually decided to block access to things like the three major networks and fee-based services like Hulu Plus and Netflix.
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Post by bullgod on May 25, 2013 23:56:53 GMT -5
I liked This Old House and the New Yankee Workshop but I watch PBS almost as much as I watch any other channel. how can you even mention those two and not bring up the Woodwright's Shop? that shows mah jam!
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Post by Petite Fille on May 26, 2013 10:41:13 GMT -5
how can you even mention those two and not bring up the Woodwright's Shop? that shows mah jam! I might be wrong but I don't remember ever watching that one, BG. But I did watch DIY and Holmes on Homes. I didn't care for the way Mike Holmes always nagged and whined and ragged and bitched about the repairs he came in to do (which was the whole premise of his show--to repair other peoples' mistakes) but I learned more from his show than I ever did from anything DIY did. Watching DIY do a project just gives you an idea of how to do that project in a perfect world. But the world is not perfect and neither are houses. A show like DIY may show you how to tile a floor but they never talk about what to do if you find that the beam and joists aren't level with each other, and that they're not even on the same plane. Holmes did talk about things like that.
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