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A few nonspoilery things:
--The Scotch tape holder on Colonial One. I have one just like it. Hard not to laugh at that, really. Who'da thought 3M would still be around that far in the future?
--Kobol looks suspiciously like Stonehenge. And it's so ... green.
--Why does Boomer always have a light on *inside* her helmet? That's like the stupidest piece of equipment ever. Or is it like the lights they always have on the inside dashboards of cars in TV shows and movies, so we can see the actors?
--The actor who plays Neil Perry (the fake Ice Truck Killer on "Dexter") is a character on BSG. Weird, huh?
--One big ongoing question for me, and I assume it's not answered yet on purpose: The cyclon that Gaius sees all the time (that no one else sees): Is she real, or does he just hallucinate all the time? Does she represent his conscience now (is that how it manifests itself to him post-apocalypse)? Or can cylons pull off stunts like *that* too??
There's more but I won't say more for now. I do have the first disc of Season 2 sitting here, but I have a husband to tend to for a while. (He had surgery this week.) Will watch it soon, though. Tomorrow??
--The Scotch tape holder on Colonial One. I have one just like it. Hard not to laugh at that, really. Who'da thought 3M would still be around that far in the future?
--Kobol looks suspiciously like Stonehenge. And it's so ... green.
--Why does Boomer always have a light on *inside* her helmet? That's like the stupidest piece of equipment ever. Or is it like the lights they always have on the inside dashboards of cars in TV shows and movies, so we can see the actors?
--The actor who plays Neil Perry (the fake Ice Truck Killer on "Dexter") is a character on BSG. Weird, huh?
--One big ongoing question for me, and I assume it's not answered yet on purpose: The cyclon that Gaius sees all the time (that no one else sees): Is she real, or does he just hallucinate all the time? Does she represent his conscience now (is that how it manifests itself to him post-apocalypse)? Or can cylons pull off stunts like *that* too??
There's more but I won't say more for now. I do have the first disc of Season 2 sitting here, but I have a husband to tend to for a while. (He had surgery this week.) Will watch it soon, though. Tomorrow??
Sedai, OG-, et al., just finished the last epi of Season 1. If we discuss it here, well, it'll match the shoutbox title, but will it be too spoilery for some?
One small thing that confused me: The Netflix disc wrapper said it was 3 hrs. 3 min. but there was only one regular-length episode on the disc (and definitely a season-ending episode!). So, I got all snuggled in to watch a HUGE final episode, and was so bummed when the credits came up about 45 minutes later. LOL.
One small thing that confused me: The Netflix disc wrapper said it was 3 hrs. 3 min. but there was only one regular-length episode on the disc (and definitely a season-ending episode!). So, I got all snuggled in to watch a HUGE final episode, and was so bummed when the credits came up about 45 minutes later. LOL.
I suppose you're going to tell me that we've also landed on the moon?
Ha!Recording TV shows on a box , TV schedules that aren't late....I suppose you're going to tell me that we've also landed on the moon?
...The only drawback is, of course, the limits of the hard disk space. Hubby's been recording episodes of several shows he missed while working overnights for two months. Until he catches up on all of them, they're taking up a LOT of room on the DVR!
DVR (at least ours, with Comcast) is a cable box tuner that also has a hard drive in it. Ours has two TV tuners and a "swap" button on the remote. So we can have 2 TV shows on at the same time.
This allows us to record one while watching another, or record two that are on at the same time.
You use the same remote as for the cable TV service (in our case, since it's all Comcast) to call up the show you want to record (onto the hard drive) on the on-screen guide. You can set it to record a single episode, or tell it to record all episodes it ever sees in the guide, or all sorts of variations (just new shows, not reruns, etc.). You can start it on time, early, late, whatever.
Better than a VCR because you can set it and forget it and never have to worry if you have a tape in or if you set the timer right, etc.
Sedai keeps mentioning not watching commercials, though. Not sure what he means. I mean, we can call up our recorded programs and can zip past the commercials pretty fast with the ultra-fast-forward...
This allows us to record one while watching another, or record two that are on at the same time.
You use the same remote as for the cable TV service (in our case, since it's all Comcast) to call up the show you want to record (onto the hard drive) on the on-screen guide. You can set it to record a single episode, or tell it to record all episodes it ever sees in the guide, or all sorts of variations (just new shows, not reruns, etc.). You can start it on time, early, late, whatever.
Better than a VCR because you can set it and forget it and never have to worry if you have a tape in or if you set the timer right, etc.
Sedai keeps mentioning not watching commercials, though. Not sure what he means. I mean, we can call up our recorded programs and can zip past the commercials pretty fast with the ultra-fast-forward...
Ah hahaha! 
Holden you're crazy. 
Holden you're crazy. 
will TiVo hurt when I try it?
I have 5 TV channels . I just wanted to remind you. I don't even know what DVR is...I'm guessing it's something like TiVo? I only know what TiVo is because I've seen an episode of Oprah when she gave it away....yes, I watch Oprah...
I pay for it, yes. For the price of a movie ticket per month, I never watch commercials, ever. Absolutely and totally worth it...
No, we pay for the DVR itself.