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It is 324 pages, containing information on each of the episodes that have aired since the very first, back in late 1963, through the end of the current series.
There are several appendix sections as well, one of which has the Doctor Who Magazine covers and another listing all of the DVD and Blu-ray releases for the U.K. and the U.S.
Because it is a PDF, the content is completely searchable.
There are a lot of greedy bastard so-called-artists out there that just do not give-a-shit. Two more have been added to the list.
7/01/10 Update: According to a comment posted on techdirt, one of the songs is Silent Running by "Mike and the Mechanics".
Stations weigh picture quality versus multicasting opportunities
Because there are so many examples of this damn snipe problem, I've had to create separate web pages to handle them all. They were just getting to be way too many to place on this page.
Head on over to my new I Hate Snipes! web page.
Read his posting here.
Here are the Fox Bugs that I've collected so far.
For a discussion about Fox bugs and how you can contribute to the roster, head on over to the AVS Forum.
I hope to see your Fox affiliate bug here soon.
OK, the headline is a little over-the-top, but tonight Lewis Black came out and laid into the networks for having those damn sprites (also called lower thirds) at the bottom of the screen.
He also layed into them for shrinking the closing credits.
I'd have the video and audio of that piece, but thanks to ASUS computer motherboards and Windblows XP, it is missing from my capture of the Emmy telecast because the computer crashed and 35 minutes got wiped from the hard drive :-(
It was a great piece. Something I've been complaining about for years!
Here is what Matt Rousch had to say when asked about those damn sprites (9/24/07):
Question: I liked it when networks put a small logo, usually ghosted in the bottom right of the screen, so I knew what channel I was surfing to. But now the trend seems to be to have an entire billboard down there, and they are getting bigger and bigger! TNT and ABC Family seem to be the biggest offenders so far. I was watching Kyle XY and they had this huge promotion for new episodes of another show starting soon. I thought it would go away after the first minute, but it stayed up there the entire time. I find it very distracting. I now tend to stay away from networks that have these "in your face" messages. Do you think there will be a point when shows will be half commercials? Sharon H.
Matt Roush: Don't give them any ideas. It's getting out of hand as it is. This is a new variation on one of my most frequently heard complaints. About the only part of the Emmy broadcast I enjoyed last Sunday was Lewis Black's rant against this practice. He spoke for millions, if my mail is any indication. That said, given the proliferation of cable, I agree that having a transparent logo in the corner of the screen is a very helpful tool for channel-surfers, especially for those who haven't migrated yet to digital or satellite TV, with their on-screen guides. But when Holly Hunter keeps popping up when I'd much rather be watching Kyra Sedgwick, I am not amused.
The 3/16/07 airing of JEOPARDY! had an event that has never happened on the show. The show is #5190, which is a lot of shows over the years.
History was made during Final Jeopardy! when there was a three way tie. All three contestants ended up with $16,000. The current champ actually had the ability to win, but his wager also brought him to $16k.
Monday's show (3/19/07) will explain that a kid asked Alex during the break before Final Jeopardy! if there has ever been a three way tie. Alex answered no and the current champ heard that and wagered so that he would tie the others, if they both bet it all ($8k) and got the question correct. They all did and history was made.
Posted 23:00 CDT - 3/15/07 - You read the secret here, before the episode aired.
Unbelievable. The 10/26/06 episode of Supernatural was only 39:52 in length. Can you believe that crap? The networks just don't give-a-shit. The new CW network is screwing viewers already.
It is getting fraking worse. The 3/15/07 episode of Supernatural was only 39:27 in length.
They just don't fuckin' care. The 1/31/08 episode of Supernatural was only 39:40 in length. And that includes the 29 seconds of reformated closing credits. How the Hell can the CW get away with this crap!
When is HD not really HD? When it macroblocks really bad, ruining the visual image. Fox basically bragged in the television industry trade rags that the method by which they are delivering their HD to the affiliates is the best.
Their delivery method is indeed the best. The use of the splicer system provides the cleanest transition between local and network programming (when it works: there is a problem locally that I haven't been able to narrow down).
But they get a failing grade for execution. Why? Because they said that they will be providing the best video to their affiliates, with enough room for the affiliate to add a secondary SD stream. Well, they provide enough room alright. For example, the image is from the March 20 episode of Prison Break. If you click on it, you'll get a full resolution 1280x720 image of lovely macroblocking. If Fox was really providing the best video possible, it certainly wouldn't look like that.
The problem is with the MPEG-2 bitrate that they are using. For this show, it was 8.55 Mbps. That is the bitrate that would be used on a standard DVD, for best video quality, not for HD video that requires more bits.
The best that can be done for our not-so-perfect DTV system is about 18.1 Mbps. To leave room for a SD channel, of poor quality, requires an HD bitrate of about 15 Mbits.
The MPEG-2 encoder that Fox is using seems to do a great job on motion video, as I couldn't really find any problems with motion, but edit locations and fades just killed the encoder. An edit location is where you see a change in the scene, for example, two people are talking and the visual changes to show each individual. The joint in the image where the cut is located can drive the encoder crazy. In a majority of the locations that I found, it took about five frames before the image cleaned up. Not good.
To see several (14 to be exact) TIFF images of the horrible Fox macroblocking, download the zip file of those images.
It is extremely annoying to watch HD video and see all this macroblockig. Shame on Fox for bitstarving their programming and shortchanging their viewers.
3/23/06 Update: After talking with another person about the low bitrate, it dawned on me as to why they are using such a low bitrate. The satellite transponder they are using to send the data just doesn't have enough bandwidth. Fox is using four satellite trnansponders. Each transponder is digitally configured to carry four HD channels and four SD channels. But there currently isn't enough digital bandwidth to go around. To provide the best video possible basically requires about 17.2 MBps. At four channels, that would mean 68.8 Mbps total. But wait, they currently only have a bandwidth of 55 Mbps, for everything.
I'm sure they are using a statistical mux that will dynamically allocate bitrate to the video that needs it. In theory, they should only need bandwidth for one HD channel and one SD channel during primetime, even though they provide feeds for three time zones. East and west do not overlap. No problem there. East/Mountain do overlap, but that can be solve by putting east/central on one transponder and mountain on the other. That means 55 Mbps can be divided pretty much between the two channels. The SD feed can work perfectly well with 7.5 Mbps. That leaves 47.5 Mbps for the HD channel and the color bars that are on the other 6 channels. Static color bars, with timecode, take up very little in the way of bandwidth. Even so, if you take 19 Mbps for HD (video/audio and other data) and the 7.5 Mbps for SD, that only adds up to 26.5 Mbps, less than half of what is available.
So why the Hell is only 8.55 Mbps being allocated to the HD channel? To top it off, tonight's episode of The O.C. was transmitted with less than 8 Mbps.
Fox is finishing testing of 73 Mbps transponder bandwidth. Why bother going to 73 Mbps when they aren't even using what they have to the upmost, at least as far as I see it?
BTW, if they aren't using a stat mux, it would explain the horrible bitrate, as wasted bandwidth would have to be given to channels that are only displaying colorbars. Since I do not have the ability to receive their satellite signals, I cannot say if they are using CBR or VBR for their video channels.
These pages contain opening credits, closing credits and previews of other TV shows that I like to watch.
Shows that have complete guides are listed in BOLD CAPS.
Select a show from the list on the left.
I am told, indirectly, that the producers of The OC never intended it to be seen in widescreen and that Fox wanted a widescreen version for air. But is that information anywhere on the outside or inside the box? Nope. It seems that the corporate lawyers and head honchos have "templates" as to what can appear on boxes to describe the content. To get it changed basically requires an "act of God."
The box says that the package contains the standard version, i.e., the 4:3 version of the original television airing. Excuse me, but the show was aired in both 4:3 and 16:9 at the exact same time. I know that lawyers and management are dumb, but are they really that stupid to believe that we don't know what aspect ratio we saw it in? If the producers don't want us to see the 16:9 version they gave to Fox, at least they should say so on the outside of the box. Lawyers be damned.
There is a truth in packaging law and I think Warner Bros. violated the intent, if not the letter of the law.
As for American Dreams, it is my understanding that the producers wanted it in Widescreen but Universal did not. Something about us not wanting to see it that way. That is utterly stupid and rediculous. I hope that my understanding is wrong.
Since they shot it in Widescreen and shown in HD (confirmed by checking the official NBC schedule for affiliates) and wanted it released that way, then it should be been released in Widescreen.
Two examples of shows not being aired in Widescreen, but released on DVD in Widescreen are Roswell and The Twilight Zone (2002 version).
If it was shot in 16:9, release it in 16:9. No ifs, ands, or butts.
Janet Jackson screws up and shows a boob with a nipple cover and you guys go off your rockers, going after free speech. We have a Constitution and you are all (OK not all) trying to undermine it.
Now you are going after words on Radio/TV. It isn't up to you to control what I can watch, or listen to. I can control my own listening/viewing. Parents do not need you to be their babysitters. Let them do their own babysitting, like they should.
Tonight (3/21/04) I watched the Canadian show, The Eleventh Hour, which had no problem using the word "fuck" a few times. And here you are getting your knickers in a twist. Canadians have a handle on life, so should you.
Wake up and smell your surroundings.
Here are some examples of what Canadians see at 10ET/9CT (episode aired 4/25/04):
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| Type | Length | Size | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| M1S | 1:15 | 13,228,208 | Scene 1 |
| M1S | 0:10 | 1,891,736 | Scene 2 |
| M1S | 0:52 | 9,226,280 | Scene 3 |
JEERS to ramping up the clutter. We (and just about everyone else) have been screaming for years about those logo "bugs" on the bottom right corner of the TV screen. What do we have to show for it? More elaborate intrusions. Like Spike TV's animated spray-painter writing the channel's logo, graffiti-style, across our screen. Can it, please.
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| Type | Length | Size | Notes | |||
| M1S | 0:27 | 4,873,428 | Season 4 Open Ltbx | |||
| M1S | Season 4 Open WS | |||||
| M1S | 4,740,960 | Season 3 Open Ltbx | ||||
| M1S | 0:28 | 4,912,936 | Season 3 Open | |||
| M1S | 1:28 | 15,368,612 | Season 2 Open | |||
| M1S | 0:32 | 5,737,956 | Season 2 Close | |||
| M1S | 0:25 | 4,517,856 | Season 2 Textless | |||
| MPE | 1:24 | 14,676,060 | Season 1 | |||
| MP3 | 0:25 | 1,002,240 | Season 4 Open | |||
| MP3 | 0:25 | 727,040 | Open | |||
| MP3 | 0:30 | 849,920 | Close | |||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | Notes | |
| M1S | NA | EU | :46 | 8,064,280 | Ver 2 - Textless |
| NA | EU | :48 | 8,415,204 | Ver 2 - Open | |
| NA | EU | :40 | 7,013,832 | Ver 2 - Close | |
| NA | EU | :48 | 8,415,204 | Ver 1 - Letterbox | |
| MP3 | World | :45 | 1,449,984 | Open | |
| World | :38 | 1,218,560 | Close | ||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | Notes | |
| M1S | NA | EU | :48 | 8,529,080 | Season 1 Open |
| NA | EU | :46 | 8,064,280 | Season 1 Open Textless | |
| NA | EU | :31 | 5,793,732 | Season 1 Close | |
| MP3 | World | :44 | 1,763,874 | Opening | |
| World | :31 | 1,223,662 | Close | ||
| The COURT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | Notes | |
| M1S | NA | EU | 1:30 | 15,724,184 | Open/Close |
| MP3 | World | :55 | 1,769,472 | Open | |
| World | :05 | 165,888 | Bumper | ||
| World | :25 | 827,392 | Close | ||
| CROSSING JORDAN | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | |
| MPE | NA | EU | :50 | 8,756,832 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Length | Size | Notes | ||
| M1S | 0:42 | 7,355,460 | NTSC Ltbx | ||
| M1S | PAL Ltbx | ||||
| MP3 | 0:40 | 1,606,208 | 320 Kbps | ||
| MP4 | 954,496 | 192 Kbps | |||
| The EDUCATION of MAX BICKFORD | ||||
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| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | |
| MPE #2 | NA | EU | 1:00 | 10,660,188 |
| MPE #1 | NA | EU | 1:00 | 10,574,200 |
| MPE - Close | NA | EU | :32 | 5,624,080 |
| ELEVENTH HOUR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Length | Size | ||
| M1S | :46 | 8,173,508 | ||
| MP3 | :40 | 1,127,113 | ||
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| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | Notes | |
| M1S | NA | EU | :52 | 9,226,280 | Opening |
| NA | EU | :39 | 6,953,408 | Close | |
| MP3 | World | :51 | 2,019,874 | Opening | |
| World | :38 | 1,503,694 | Close | ||
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| Type | Length | Size | Notes |
| MP3 | 0:30 | 1,209,992 | Open |
| MP4 | 475,134 | ||
| MP3 | 0:36 | 1,448,229 | Close #1 |
| MP4 | 574,431 | ||
| MP3 | 0:30 | 1,207,902 | Close #2 |
| MP4 | 477,832 | ||
| JACK & JILL | ||||
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| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | |
| MPE | NA | EU | 1:19 | 13,806,884 |
| The LONE GUNMEN | |||||
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| Open - :47 | Ltbx - :47 | Close - :39 | |||
| Type | Size | Type | Size | Type | Size |
| MPE | 8,233,932 | MPE | 8,233,932 | MPE | 6,844,180 |
| MALCOLM in the MIDDLE | |
|---|---|
| Open - :35 | |
| Type | Size |
| MPE | 6,146,980 |
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| Type | Length | Size | Notes | ||
| AVI | 1:31 | 27,252,736 | 1080p - DD5.1 | ||
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| Type | Length | Size | Notes |
| M1S | :48 | 8,415,204 | Opening |
| M1S | :32 | 5,737,956 | Close |
| MP3 | :46 | 1,866,274 | Opening |
| MP3 | :30 | 1,206,943 | Close |
| ONCE and AGAIN | |
|---|---|
| Credits - 1:25 | |
| Type | Size |
| MPE | 15,026,984 |
| PRESIDIO MED | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | Notes | |
| M1S | NA | EU | :32 | 5,793,732 | Season 1 Open |
| NA | EU | Season 1 Open Textless | |||
| NA | EU | Season 1 Close | |||
| NA | EU | Season 1 Close Textless | |||
| MP3 | World | :31 | 1,230,976 | Opening | |
| World | :26 | 1,026,176 | Close | ||
| SPECIAL UNIT 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | |
| MPE | NA | EU | :42 | 7,367,080 |
![[Third Watch Cast 2003]](images/ThirdWatch-Cast-2003-01.jpg)
Eddie Cibrian as firefighter Jimmy Doherty,
Kim Raver as paramedic Kim Zambrano,
Chris Bauer Fred Yokas,
Coby Bell as police officer Ty Davis,
Molly Price as police officer Faith Yokas,
Skipp Sudduth as police officer John "Sully" Sullivan,
Tia Texada as Sgt. Maritza Cruz,
Michael Beach as paramedic Monte "Doc" Parker,
Anthony Ruivivar as paramedic Carlos Nieto,
Nia Long as Sasha Monroe
| THIRD WATCH | |||||
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| Type | Mirror | Length | Size | Notes | |
| M1S | NA | EU | 0:52 | 9,226,280 | Open #3 |
| NA | EU | Open #2 | |||
| NA | EU | 1:39 | 17,239,432 | Open #1 and Close #2 | |
| MPE | NA | EU | 0:44 | 7,708,708 | Close #1 |
| TITANS | |||||
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| Movie - 1:19 | Open - :46 | Close - :30 | |||
| Type | Size | Type | Size | Type | Size |
| MPE | 13,978,860 | MP3 | 1,495,040 | MP3 | 978,944 |
![[Wonderfalls Cast 2004]](images/Wonderfalls-Cast-2004-01.jpg) WONDERFALLS - Music Video |
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| Video - 3:07 | Audio - 3:05 | ||||
| Type | Size | Type | Size | ||
| M1S | 32,647,552 | MP3 | 5,943,048 | ||
NOTE: All M1S movies are 352x240, 29.97 fps, 16-bit, 44.1 kHz, stereo [VideoCD compatible].
NOTE: All AVI promos are MPEG-4 (size listed in Notes),
NOTE: 48 kHz, Dolby Digital 2.0
or 5.1.
NOTE: The
DivX or
Xvid
codec required to play these promos (video).
NOTE: The
AC3Filter
required to play these promos (audio).
MicroCrap Windblows tends to configure browsers to stream AVI files. Save the file to your hard drive before attempting to play it. Right-click on the link and save the file.
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