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.

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.

Our local UPN station has been a snowstorm the past month on Comcast. I tried to cut them a break by asking if this was a known issue with the station, but, no, I was told it wasn't. (The station itself removed its email the engineer link, which is suggestive.)

It's been repeated technician visits just about every week as the Fox, NBC, CBS and ABC stations have all had the look and sound of stations your old antenna (remember antennas?) could barely pull in. I've never been so tempted by satellite.

is anybody else getting SciFi in HD?

Not here. Though I don't get the WB or UPN in HD yet either. I have hopes that, maybe, that will change once the CW launches.

Yes, I've been spoiled.

SciFi in HD would make me revisit the decision to wait on HD equipment.

No matter where they're going with it, unless it involves pod people

Robot Army vs. Hive Mind Alien Army! Like Alien vs. Predator, with less saliva and hopefully with better-looking unclothedness.

Wouldn't it be funny to have a whole long story-arc about cylon angst and human angst and oh the bitterness and then have aliens invade and start beating up on them both?? Instant rapprochement!

Someone here once said that BSG was shown in HD on another channel, but I don't know where/when. (The podcast for Scar mentioned that they do shoot in HD, which I'd been curious about.)

My cable reception was looking increasingly shitty, and I was told that my analog cable box was to blame. True or not, the digital cable does look much much better.

There may also be some settings on your HD set that need tweaking before it can properly display SD video.

Lookie: [link]

(Universal HD BSG schedule)

Oh, looks like they're about a half-season behind then. Nevermind!