Tech & Media Thoughts

 Yesterday we watched an old episode of Tony Bourdain. The Brazil rainforest one, if you're a fan, which I suspect was one of those episodes that he will go off on at some point in his blog or lectures as he looked utterly miserable and it was, overall, not very good.

Then we switched to the Monarchy series on netflix originally channel 4, which I'm enjoying a great deal. I've never really had much of a sense of how the monarchy evolved and no idea at all about the different Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and kings. And the presenter is Very Very British which amuses both Janna and myself.

But what really was strange about this was that we watched anything on the DVR at all. More and more I find myself turning to the roku/netflix to watch things. The other day I got sucked into Tora Tora Tora which oddly I'd never seen before. But it was 20 minutes in. I went to netflix and there it was, so I started it from scratch and I got the double advantage that it was properly letterboxed rather than AMC HDs "squish-o-vision".

What's frustrating is that it's just not quite there. I couldn't, for example, watch that Bourdain episode until next year on netflix. And a few others like Top Chef I don't think we have any access to. But it's getting close to the point where we're paying $70 a month for what amounts to maybe three or four tv series at any given time.

Tech & Media Thoughts

 Yesterday we watched an old episode of Tony Bourdain. The Brazil rainforest one, if you're a fan, which I suspect was one of those episodes that he will go off on at some point in his blog or lectures as he looked utterly miserable and it was, overall, not very good.

Then we switched to the Monarchy series on netflix originally channel 4, which I'm enjoying a great deal. I've never really had much of a sense of how the monarchy evolved and no idea at all about the different Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and kings. And the presenter is Very Very British which amuses both Janna and myself.

But what really was strange about this was that we watched anything on the DVR at all. More and more I find myself turning to the roku/netflix to watch things. The other day I got sucked into Tora Tora Tora which oddly I'd never seen before. But it was 20 minutes in. I went to netflix and there it was, so I started it from scratch and I got the double advantage that it was properly letterboxed rather than AMC HDs "squish-o-vision".

What's frustrating is that it's just not quite there. I couldn't, for example, watch that Bourdain episode until next year on netflix. And a few others like Top Chef I don't think we have any access to. But it's getting close to the point where we're paying $70 a month for what amounts to maybe three or four tv series at any given time.