Category: Tivo

TGIF: Time to watch Babylon 5 Season 1 through 5 On the Roku!!

Paul

As many of you know I simply love Science Fiction shows and movies. This weekend I intend to sit down and try to start watching Babylon 5 all the way through. This will be a marathon for me, but I thought people would like to know you can watch these online through your Roku Box and Netflix Accounts right nows. You can also watch these on the Tivo if you have Netflix Subscription!! Since I don’t have the URL’s for the netflix I will show you where else you can you view these:

Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on the Babylon 5 space station: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262. With its prominent use of planned story arcs, the series was often described as a “novel for television”.

 

I must admit when J. Michael Straczynski created this series he made it so you can watch each episode independently of each other but also create it where you could actually think of this as a novel for TV. Let me break it down so you can understand it just a little more, Each season has a season story arch but also a series story arch. For instance the first season we have character development along with understanding all the races. Season two has a season story arch about the impending fight with earth and series story arch of fighting with a new powerful enemy that is on the rise. I won’t spoil it for you but I simply love being able to watch these on my Television set without having to sit at my computer to watch these. I know with all the episodes available to watch on the Roku that I probably won’t get through but One or two seasons this weekend but I will continue next weekend to watch the rest of the series.

Have A Good Friday and See you Monday!!


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NBC-Vista copy-protection snafu reminds us why DRM stinks

Paul


The serves as a unsettling reminder that broadcasters can give instructions to the software built into DVRs, although they almost never do. Many DVRs and other, similar devices appear to be aware of the content-restriction flags set by broadcasters, even if they’re not programmed to “obey” them by default. Still, broadcasters would love to have the power to stop users from recording their shows, watching them later, and most importantly, skipping commercials when they do it.

[Via Arstechnica]

Yes that is right DRM does stink, I found this article to be a great reminder of how unrealistic it is that we should need DRM. Oh well, I’m just going to have to live with DRM!!