{"id":1180,"date":"2008-07-15T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/15\/not-horrible-at-all\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:13:00","slug":"not-horrible-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/15\/not-horrible-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Horrible At All"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being predictably slashdotted<\/a> this morning, Act I<\/a> of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog<\/span> is once again available for your viewing (and listening) pleasure. It’s quite delightful.<\/p>\n

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If you hate streaming video as much as I do–and, more importantly, if you want to support the artists–I encourage you to buy the complete saga (parts 2 and 3 coming later this week) for a measly $4 from iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In related news, I also ponied up for a Daily Show<\/span> multi-pass today–16 new episodes for $10, no commercials, auto-downloaded, and the writers get paid. Me likey.<\/span> We haven’t been watching for the past few months, but has John Stewart gone a lot more gray recently, or is it just me?<\/p>\n

So far, our TV-over-Internet experience has been pretty good. We finished watching the most recent seasons of Reaper<\/span> and House<\/span>, and we’ve got My Name is Earl<\/span> cued up. We don’t really have a lot of free time while we’re traveling, but after we settle down in Portland I’ll probably shell out for Burn Notice<\/span> and The Middleman<\/span> (recommended by my friend Raj).<\/p>\n

I haven’t done the math yet, but I suspect paying for individual shows will also be more economical than cable or satellite. We were paying almost $80 a month with DirecTV, including HBO and TiVo fees, and even if iTunes or Unbox season passes are $40 a pop, we wouldn’t have time to watch 24 shows a year–even if we could find that many programs we liked.<\/p>\n

It’s a little annoying that we can’t download Medium<\/span> and probably won’t be able to get True Blood<\/span> in a timely manner*, but we can always wait for DVD<\/a>. Or make some new friends in Portland.<\/p>\n

~CKL<\/p>\n

* Get with the program already, HBO<\/a>!
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