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dishy

02 Saturday Nov 2013

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dishSo here we go. I’ve decided to go for a new iPhone and contract with the company that doesn’t offer internet TV. Which meant updating my present satellite tv option… which is way better than the internet company offered. I will be able to record films and entire series to watch at my leisure, which should save on Amazon DVD orders. Anyhow, not looking forward to the learning curve and probable initial fuck-ups which make it impossible to watch any TV properly for a few days after installation. But once that’s all done… I think it’ll be much better.

One of my complaints about paying for satellite TV is that I’m usually not at home to see the programmes I like since I tend to work evenings. This no doubt sounds a bit primative to all you habitual streamers and downloaders out there, but I’ve never been able to get into that and lack the geekiness to wirelessly connect laptop to tv set. Anyhow, quite excited about this! And new iPhone too. More on that later. When I get it!

the newsroom

14 Wednesday Aug 2013

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the newsroom
It’s been a long while since a television programme just blew me away like this one. Got it delivered by Amazon on Monday afternoon and I am just about to watch episode 8. Great writing, acting, characters… am loving it. Okay, it helps that I am on “semi-hols” so I can watch up to four episodes at a time… but I also don’t want it to end. This is right up there with The Wire, The Sopranos and a few others I can’t think of at the moment. Okay, gotta go…

The famous opening scene, pilot episode, The Newsroom.

quite interesting

23 Saturday Jun 2012

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OMG! I have just got hooked on a tv programme that’s been running for 8 years! If there is anyone other than me who has never seen QI, it’s a BBC quiz show hosted by the super fabby Stephen Fry (heh, he’s one of my followers on Twitter).

Apparently QI is a 26-year-long project with each series covering topics that begin with a different letter of the alphabet. So instead of “series 1” the first series is called “series A” and so forth. I wonder if they will keep going until the end of the alphabet.

The other day I was looking at getting a new Blu-Ray player to replace my 12-year-old DVD player. A slightly more expensive model had a WiFi option so I could watch YouTube stuff on the telly and I thought “pah! don’t need that!”. Now I’m not so sure, especially as QI and lots of other older programmes can be found on YouTube these days. Technology, eh?

the killing

28 Wednesday Dec 2011

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I’ve been hearing rave reviews about this Danish tv programme for ages so when the first series (it’s now into series 2) became more reasonably-priced on Amazon I decided to go for it. Two episodes in and I’m hooked! And its especially refreshing to see actors that look like real people.

Watching it has also made me wonder why Spanish people are so averse to sub-titles. I’ve been going to sub-titled foreign films since I first found out they existed – I think I was about 16. So I don’t get it when people say it’s “too difficult” to read and watch at the same time. And I really don’t get how not hearing the actor’s real voice isn’t important to viewers.

In Portugal films and tv series are sub-titled and, as a result, most of the population has at least a smattering of English. Unlike in Spain. But I guess Peter would be out of a job if they got wise here and changed their ways. Still, I cannot abide dubbing. Can you?

Guardian review – The Killing

bedroom tv!

07 Monday Nov 2011

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Now that it’s officially autumn – and I’ve even had to get out the duvet! – thoughts of cosying up in bed this winter with a book (or my iPhone) suddenly extended to… watching films in bed! Why had I never thought of  this before? I mean, I already had this smaller flatscreen tv and dvd player inherited from Susan when she moved back to the US.  In the old place they were set up in Nog’s “office” and occasionally got used, but since moving here they’ve been upstairs and weren’t even properly set up. The idea was that someone might want to watch a film upstairs sometime, which has never happened.

And so last night I moved it all downstairs and set it up on my somewhat rickety old bookcase next to my bed, removed one of the shelves to make room, and I love it! This is the first time in my life I’ve had a television in my bedroom – feels rather decadent. And okay, it’s not set up to the satellite service so I will only be able to watch DVDs on it, but it still seems a bit like Christmas.

Do you have a tv in your bedroom?