Well, we’ve loved our TiVo for about 18 months now, but it looks like it’s time to retire the old girl and give her ever-spinning hard drive a well-deserved rest.
There’s a new TiVo in town, and it’s a reason to upgrade.
Available at retail beginning May 1, the TiVo Series2 DT is the first standalone dual tuner DVR with the award-winning TiVo® service and features.
The TiVo Series2 DT DVR is optimized for cable households, allowing you to record two shows at once, so now you never have to miss any of your favorite shows — even if they’re on at the same time. The TiVo Series2 DT DVR also incorporates built-in Ethernet and USB ports, making it easier than ever to add the TiVo box to the home network.
The official press release is estimating a price of $99 after rebate and service activation for an 80 hour model (double our current model’s capacity).
No more having to choose between CSI and My Name is Earl.
(If you don’t own a TiVo, it’s hard to describe how awesome they are. It’s a lot more liberating than just having a VCR automagically recording shows for you. Like high-speed Internet, once you get TiVo, or any other digital video recorder, it’s hard to imagine life without one.)
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Memoirs of a Geisha
is a pretty movie. Gorgeous, even.
But that’s really all it is. The plot isn’t terribly engaging, the characters who aren’t loathsome are fairly uninteresting and the movie feels two or three times as long as it really is.
This is a rental, nothing more.
Crash is extremely well-acted, and has great dialogue, but the plot is just too pat. Everyone is racist, including the victims of racism, we get it. We didn’t need it said over and over for two hours. But that’s what we get. In fact, of all the characters to appear on the screen, only two (the Persian daughter who works the late shift at the LA County coroner’s office and the DA’s housekeeper) aren’t shown to be explicitly racist. It’s the kind of thing that seems deeply profound in high school or college, but the plot simply isn’t as sophisticated as it should have been.
Having said that, the movie’s still worth seeing. There are, to a person, great performances in the film (including the eerie sight of Tony Danza convincingly coming off as a racist Hollywood television producer) and some very sharp dialogue, a lot of it performed by Ludacris (including a humorous attack by him on hip-hop music).
Strongly recommended for the performances and the dialogue, but as a rental, not a purchase.
At this moment, I have 1337 helpful votes for my Amazon reviews.
If the comedy of this escapes you, count yourself lucky for not wasting brain cells on d00dspeak.
Although the title (and the basic plotline) make one expect an American Pie-style comedy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a surprisingly smart and clever comedy. Scratch that, a romantic comedy, which doesn’t work on paper, but which is surprisingly sweet and funny (and fairly wise).
A recommended viewing for fans of R-rated romantic comedy, of which this is one of only a small handful.
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