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Yeah, I watched it.  Reminds me of Dark Angel with Jessica Alba, but less entertaining.  I was pleasantly surprised by Terriers, though.  My wife even said she liked it, which is rare for her.

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I’ve never set either my HTPC or main PC to sleep at any time.  I also have an unRAID server that does spin down the drives when not in use, but never sleeps.  Several TVs in my home use media extenders connected to my main HTPC via a home network.  I had to relent and give my wife her cable box back for the bedroom TV because she has zero patience for learning any new technology and WMC is not within her realm of tolerating.  If she had to wait even longer for the main HTPC to wake up I’d probably find the media extenders run over in the driveway.

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I’ve never set either my HTPC or main PC to sleep at any time.  I also have an unRAID server that does spin down the drives when not in use, but never sleeps.  Several TVs in my home use media extenders connected to my main HTPC via a home network.  I had to relent and give my wife her cable box back for the bedroom TV because she has zero patience for learning any new technology and WMC is not within her realm of tolerating.  If she had to wait even longer for the main HTPC to wake up I’d probably find the media extenders run over in the driveway.

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I heard someone saw a suspect running from the scene carrying a fiddle. ;D

The whole issue boils down to the bottom line.  If a show doesn’t generate enough revenue in market shares, it becomes unprofitable to keep airing it.  The quality of the programming generally has little to do with it.  The networks love “reality” shows and game shows because they bring in large audiences and are dirt cheap to produce.

Whatever the reason, I’ve got to decide on my fall lineup choices pretty soon so I can program them to record.  I just found out I’ll be out of town on business the week of 9/20 thru 9/24 and I won’t be home to watch any of them.  When I’m stuck in a hotel room I tend to watch things like the History Channel and other general interest programs that I rarely take the time to watch at home.  Since a lot of the content is old black and white footage shot on small format cameras, I don’t miss all that much by not watching it on my 60″ Sony HDTV.

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I heard someone saw a suspect running from the scene carrying a fiddle. ;D

The whole issue boils down to the bottom line.  If a show doesn’t generate enough revenue in market shares, it becomes unprofitable to keep airing it.  The quality of the programming generally has little to do with it.  The networks love “reality” shows and game shows because they bring in large audiences and are dirt cheap to produce.

Whatever the reason, I’ve got to decide on my fall lineup choices pretty soon so I can program them to record.  I just found out I’ll be out of town on business the week of 9/20 thru 9/24 and I won’t be home to watch any of them.  When I’m stuck in a hotel room I tend to watch things like the History Channel and other general interest programs that I rarely take the time to watch at home.  Since a lot of the content is old black and white footage shot on small format cameras, I don’t miss all that much by not watching it on my 60″ Sony HDTV.

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It’s available via BT.  It hasn’t been released on Blu-Ray yet.  I’m still working on season 2 along with season 3 of Dexter.

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It’s available via BT.  It hasn’t been released on Blu-Ray yet.  I’m still working on season 2 along with season 3 of Dexter.

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I’ve discovered numerous shows after they’ve been airing for one or more seasons, like Dexter or Breaking Bad.  Bittorrent sites are essential to getting caught up with earlier episodes if they’re not available on Blu-Ray yet.

I’ve lost count of how many good shows I’ve gotten into only to have them cancelled halfway through the season.  The funny thing is it seems like the same actors keep popping up in new shows that get cancelled in short order (Paul Blackthorne and Kari Matchett are two that come to mind, but there are many others).  What irks me is that while many quality shows get cancelled, lots of mediocre programs seem to survive. 

I’ll never understand why all of the networks want to put up their best shows in the same time slots on the same night against each other.  It’s just one big pissing contest and the loser is usually the viewer.  Fortunately, this is no longer an issue for people with DVRs.  The sad thing is, when a show doesn’t get the ratings the network wants to see, it most likely gets canned, even though that same show would probably dominate the time slot if it aired on another night.

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I’ve discovered numerous shows after they’ve been airing for one or more seasons, like Dexter or Breaking Bad.  Bittorrent sites are essential to getting caught up with earlier episodes if they’re not available on Blu-Ray yet.

I’ve lost count of how many good shows I’ve gotten into only to have them cancelled halfway through the season.  The funny thing is it seems like the same actors keep popping up in new shows that get cancelled in short order (Paul Blackthorne and Kari Matchett are two that come to mind, but there are many others).  What irks me is that while many quality shows get cancelled, lots of mediocre programs seem to survive. 

I’ll never understand why all of the networks want to put up their best shows in the same time slots on the same night against each other.  It’s just one big pissing contest and the loser is usually the viewer.  Fortunately, this is no longer an issue for people with DVRs.  The sad thing is, when a show doesn’t get the ratings the network wants to see, it most likely gets canned, even though that same show would probably dominate the time slot if it aired on another night.

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I’m still relatively new to MC but I have noticed that when I initially set up a program for series recording, it always schedules the show I selected to record from the guide.  I just clicked on the Do not record option for the rerun once I set up the series for recording. 

I didn’t realize that I could set up a global parameter to record only new shows from the Settings menu.  Once I did that, only new shows would be scheduled for recording.

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I’m still relatively new to MC but I have noticed that when I initially set up a program for series recording, it always schedules the show I selected to record from the guide.  I just clicked on the Do not record option for the rerun once I set up the series for recording. 

I didn’t realize that I could set up a global parameter to record only new shows from the Settings menu.  Once I did that, only new shows would be scheduled for recording.

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Here’s a great place to learn about hacking Windows 7 Media Center with all sorts of add-ons:

http://www.hack7mc.com/

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Here’s a great place to learn about hacking Windows 7 Media Center with all sorts of add-ons:

http://www.hack7mc.com/

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Get an app like Media Browser or My Movies.  They’ll go out and retrieve all the info you’re looking for and display it in Media Center.

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Get an app like Media Browser or My Movies.  They’ll go out and retrieve all the info you’re looking for and display it in Media Center.

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