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Come to papa!

Gotta love South Park! So true..

I’m really digging the new Stargate franchise. Looks like they took a cue from Battlestar Galactica when it comes to FX and mood. Watching this made me want to finally finish of SG-1 (got a couple of seasons left on it) and watch Atlantis (which I only watched a few eps from).

Great to have a new Sci Fi series to watch! Good job SyFy!

Ahh..bliss…first of all, visit this site, CAT that has TV Calendars. Sign up, select your shows and then just add the ICAl file to your Google Calendar (oh, and if you’re a Swede like me, set your time-zone) – voila! Now you can check when your favorite shows airs in your favorite calendar!

• Via mlevit, this dude also has full instructions

I finally found way down in a forum thread howto change the default input on my PV60. Walk up to the TV and hold down the volume/change channel button. While you hold it down hit the TV/AV button three times on the remote, the “hotel menu” will then appear which will allow you to set the default input to HDMI 1 or 2. Juicy!

FEAR ME! Take me to your leader! All of your bases! I am the FUCK-YOU- BOX

Oh my god. I finally got everything working on the box from hell, the fuckyou-box. Rest assured I will write a detailed guide for how to set up a DM 800 with Canal Digital. I got the error “Tuning failed / Tuning misslyckades” when I tried to set up the HD channels but after altering my Diseq settings that all worked out too and I’m now watching glorious HD.

Now I just have to read on various forums how I will be able to set up my favorite channels, which involves third party (windows only) software and the extensive editing of XML files.

I was stupid enough to read the manual of the thing and therefore invested in an USB to RJ232 converter..I also bought a cable, which turned out to be the wrong kind (I needed female – female but got female – male..which is what you used to use for NORMAL devices). So after dishing out some cash I dissected two other RJ232 and then put it back with a lot of electric tape and patience only to conclude that I could just upgrade firmware via the browser. Awesome.

The manual also failed to mention if the chip of the card was supposed to be up or down, in my previous settop box it was up..so I initially had it up on the Dreambox also..which is wrong, it should be down. Although that really didn’t matter since I had not gotten the “newcs” binary running..or had the correct Diseq settings…

Anyway. I am off to a well deserved sleep. Pimping aint easy..

Update August 2009: Running Nabilosat Blackhole 0.11g COMPLETLEY elimnates ALL tuning failed errors. PLI Jade sucks in comparisom!

Yesterday me and Linda was going to watch the replay of Robinson using the new service from TV4 called TV4 Replay. This is a service where you for a week can watch TV4 programming replays online.

I had a hunch from the get-go that it would be a problem to find the entrance to the replay of Robinsson WITHOUT getting to know the ending of the actual episode. This, of course, turned out to be absolutely true.

I first tried to Google “TV4 Replay Robinson” and I got into some sort of page and some clip started but it was not presented clear enough so you were left wondering if this indeed was the episode or just some random clip. Then I prepared myself for getting to know the ending and entered Tv4.se and – of course – they spoiled the ending on the mainpage. Here we did find the entrance to the replay of the episode and it turned out to be the clip we first found.

The presentation is PISS POOR and their whole web-tv isn’t very well thought out. Their fullscreen mode is also buggy and keeps showing an annoying border in the bottom while running Windows XP (browser doesn’t matter) – my only option to go around this will be going into Mac OS and zooming in a little bit to prevent burn in.

Please, pretty please, make a clear DISTINCTION between your main site and your web-TV site. With this I mean that, yeah sure, I should be able to enter into web-TV from your main site but if I NEED to be able to enter your web-tv section separately and while I’m there you need to NOT HAVE SPOILERS.

Update: Started watching the show after zooming in a little on Mac OS X. Guess what happens after 10 minutes? Shit starts to stutter and then it exists fullscreen with the error message “movie failed”. Pathetic. F*cking pathetic. Why don’t you just publish a torrent instead? If you gotta do streaming make sure it works PERFECTLY.

TV4 webb-tv replay suger

Seriously weak show. I just stopped thinking about something else after 15 minutes. Flimsy direction. Patrick does a good job of course but it just can’t help a weak script and weak direction. Lousy. 2/10

1457 never looked so good :) It’s the old school with a modern twist.
Great show. See it.

A bit sad that “The Shield” is over? Yeah me too.
Luckily there is a new show by the creator of “The Shield”.
Not as good but still a very decent show.
The first season is complete, 13 eps