Thoughts on TV

I’m apparently too old for Pop Culture Jeopardy!, because I was absolutely terrible at it the first time around. But I’m generally happy to see Jeopardy! trying new things.

Honestly, between the ever-increasing monthly prices and their complete refusal to be a good citizen on Apple platforms, let alone actively making their apps worse, Netflix makes me want to cancel so badly. (Recently my wife got logged out, and her first thought was that I had canceled.)

A couple years after cutting the cord, I finally fixed our flaky over-the-air TV and now have a reliable, free(ish) source for our nightly Jeopardy! habit. Hopefully this post can help anyone wanting to run their tuner on power-over-ethernet like I did.

While the First Doctor was never my favorite, this is still very cool. I’d love to see these early episodes.

Very cool! As a life-long viewer of Jeopardy! and a long-time follower of Snell’s, it’s fun to see those worlds cross over.

The Splay seems interesting in that it packs up small, so that it would be easy to pack and transport safely, but big enough to be a useful display in the van. It’s pricey, and its bulk when set up means I’d really like to try one before thinking about purchasing one.

This is a lovely article about a beloved show and, in particular, the music that defined it.

It really sucks that people who have “recorded” shows on their “DVR” have lost access to those “recordings”. It’s just another reminder that these services just aren’t as good as ones that actually put a recording on a device you own, like a TiVo.

As far as I’m concerned, the local TV affiliates should keep their politics to themselves (or to their own editorial channels) or decide to not be an affiliate.