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Rebuilt in a Day?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bruno Heller, creator of HBO’s Rome (and now The Mentalist) wants to cap off the prematurely cancelled show with a final movie.  Necessary? Desired? I’d rather see the Deadwood movies, but no one’s putting that option on the table. Rome, on the other hand, did achieve closure after its own [...]

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iPhone Gets a Joost

How did the people at Joost know that today was both iPhone App Day and My TiVo Is Dead Day at Tuned In? However they managed it, it was today that the online-video site launched an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. That Survivor episode that perished with my TiVo? They got me covered. [...]

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Why iPhone Owners Blow

So what does a TV critic do when his TiVo dies and takes the television with it? Well, as mentioned, I went on an iPhone app shopping spree. The simplest and most addictive program I picked up is Smule’s Ocarina, which turns the iPhone into a wind instrument. By blowing into the microphone and opening [...]

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Armed Conflicts (of Interest)

If you have more time on your hands than I do this morning, I recommend David Barstow’s New York Times opus about retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey and how, as an omnipresent military analyst for NBC News, he has advocated military policies that serve the interests of defense contractors—one of whom pays him to do just [...]

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TV-Free Monday: Morte de TiVo

My Series 3 TiVo passed away the day after Thanksgiving. This is becoming something of a regular occurrence at the Tuned In household. Since I first bought the machine less than two years ago, we’ve had recurrent hardware malfunctions, resulting in numerous, marathon customer-service ordeals and (so far) two replacement units being sent out by [...]