The writers strike may be over but television viewers will be feeling the fall out for months to come. Some shows aren’t returning until next year. That strike really wreaked havoc with a lot of people’s viewing pleasure, not to mention a lot of other people’s livelihood. The show 24 won’t return to the air [...]

Gossip Girl starts airing new episodes again this week. I like Gossip Girl, it’s one of the shows I have a season pass for on Tivo. This is the show’s first year and it’s been doing well. But, the CW network has decided they will not be showing any new episodes online on their website [...]

I got a laptop computer recently. This morning my Dad and I got the wireless modem connected and got the laptop connected wirelessly. I am now able to sit in the living room while watching tv and use my laptop. I am sitting here watching the Nascar race right now, there’s a commercial on. I’ve never [...]

I had to drive to the Courthouse in the next county today for work. I’d never been there, so I was prepared with my printed directions. As I listened to my satellite radio on the way there I found myself thinking it’d be really neat if we could configure our own after market automobile electronic [...]

Remote controls and televisions nowadays have more and more features and capabilities. We can block channels, we can block shows with certain ratings. But we do not have complete control over the programming we receive. I got to wondering what it would be like if people could access and alter programming via something like a [...]

I remember the first television I had when I was a teenager. It was a tiny black and white and it was about eleven or twelve inches. I thought it was the greatest. I’m not sure they make anything that small any more, and I haven’t seen a black and white television in years. Two [...]

I decided today that a dvd recorder would be nice to have in the living room. Yes we have Tivo, but I can’t keep stuff on there forever. I had something saved once that deleted after about 14 months. I now have Hinder footage in there that I want to get off onto another form [...]

Going way back it used to be you bought a tv and connected it to an antenna. From there, we moved to connecting the tv to cable or satellite. It was after that that the fun really started. People attached all kinds of equipment to their tv – vcrs, dvd players, pvrs, tivos. Then high [...]

I took my son to the Verizon store a couple of days ago. We put our name into the computer to be put onto the list of people waiting for a rep and browsed the store. Over near what I call the tv phones (by that I mean cell phones that you can watch tv [...]