I don't think it's good (and that's a spoiler, so you should white it out) -- I think it's poorly executed and irritating. No matter where they're going with it, unless it involves pod people, excuses that.

Wow.

I've been watching the Stargates and BSG as aired on SciFi, and really hating the crappy video quality.

A new cable channel popped up--I just noticed it this weekend--as part of "The HD package", which, btw, we don't have. But they've been running "Home" all day, and dayum, is this a pretty pretty show.

We also watched an hour of unscored, unVOed footage of sunrise at the mouth of the Crystal River in Florida on DiscoveryHD, plus an hour of "Equator". Awesome.

Question--is anybody else getting SciFi in HD? Is it available? Or are all y'all's SciFi shows as grainy, ghosty, and pixellated as mine?

ETA: and yeah, we got the HD ready widescreen tv. So.spoiled.

Well, I don't have an HD ready tv so even if my cable showed Sci-Fi in HD, I couldn't see it.

The BSG podcasts can be spoilery as I discovered when I started listening to them as part of the season 2 (first half) dvd-set.

I'm not getting Sci-Fi in HD, but I get a very nice picture through digital cable most of the time and I'm watching it on an EDTV Plasma.

Frell frell frell frell frell.

this raises a question I've been wondering about. I think of "frell" as being used as "frelled up", but not as an epithet, where I would use "frak" am I just that much of a grammar geek?

Frell is used as a verb all the time -- my favorite being Aeryn's thunderstruck "Frell me dead" when she saves the kiddies -- and "frelling" and "frelled" as adjectives. I can't dredge up a use of "frell" as a standalone epithet, but it's my word and it does what I tell it to.

I can't dredge up a use of "frell" as a standalone epithet, but it's my word and it does what I tell it to.

why am I suddenly getting images of whips and thigh high leather boots?

From an aural perspective, I find the consonance of "frak" more satisfying. "frell" needs the "ed" or "ing" to really work, whereas "frakking" just seems like too much work to say.

I don't recall from the show, though.

Question--is anybody else getting SciFi in HD? Is it available? Or are all y'all's SciFi shows as grainy, ghosty, and pixellated as mine?

That sounds more like a cable TV issue. I had to fight tooth and nail for my calbe company to admit that the people at the call center didn't know squat about how cable TV works. It took me literally years of calls to finally get a tech out that would ferret out the issue.

It turned out that there are special fiber-optic-to-regular cable nodes in the system every so often, and those cards can go wacky with various results. Some channels were coming through clear as a bell, others were grainy and ghosty and crud.

Apparently I was on the end of the line, the only house past the node, so they had no complaints in my area other than mine. With no other complaints, they assumed it was my fault.

Besically they have to go up a pole, and carefully clean the fiber optics going into the node, and they have to make sure they are as clean as possible, and that the cards in the box are sealed up nicely.

What really frazzled me was the fact they kept claiming it was fixed, when they hooked up their 4 inch screen TV monitors. Well, at 4 inch screen size, I couldn't see much wrong, either.

I eventually got up the nerve to drop cable completely once Andi moved in.

One less hassle. It says a lot about Charter cable that I'd rather Ahem episodes and watch the next day than to deal with their stupidity over and over.

I have no ahemming capability, with the paranoid person who maintains the firewalls, moats, blockers, portcullises, and anti-everything-ware on this computer. So I may resort to hounding the cable company. They're used to it, I'm sure.

Thanks, Daniel.