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HDTV Listings for March 17, 2007
What we're watching: The NCAA tournament continues on in round 2 on CBS, but later on we'll look out for a new Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.Our traditional high-def listings continue below.
Apple Pro covers SNL Season 1 and Broadway Video
Apple's Pro ezine has posted a nice piece by Joe Cellini on the production of Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season (available on DVD and in iTS) by Broadway Video. The definitive DVD set includes the original 24 "Not Ready For Prime Time Players" episodes from way back in 1975. Why the long delay? Music clearances, which took a full 32 years to finish, leaving BV only six weeks to complete the DVD set in time for the holiday buying season.Enter XSan. In the process of converting to high-def production, the SNL team built out a ginormous XServe RAID storage network, including a complete 30-year archive of all the standard-def shows stored in 10-bit uncompressed format. Gosh, that's... (quick calculation in AJA Data Rate) about 150 GB per 90-minute show, 30 seasons of 24 shows each: over 100 terabytes of funny, not even counting the HD shows from the past two seasons. With the first season already digitized, the DVD production was dramatically faster than it would have been otherwise, and according to BV, they "did the entire process using Macs running Final Cut Pro, Shake, Final Touch, and DVD Studio Pro, all SAN-based." Cheeseburger cheeseburger!
Found Video: "Steve Jobs" and iPhone on SNL
"Steve Jobs" appeared on Saturday Night Live last night to talk about the iPhone and it's even better than we thought. Apparently it holds 2 billion, with a 'b,' songs! And it even has an on/off button and a clock! Oh, yeah, and don't forget to download The Office in iTunes. Thanks Travis!
Found Footage: SNL - Post-It-Notes
It's always nice to see Apple parodies, especially when they: a) have nothing to do with an existing product, or specifically: the iPod, and b) are from the mid-90's. This is a decent SNL spoof that quickly rose up the digg ranks yesterday evening, parodying a fictitious Apple product that's a bit too much disposable overkill for its own good. Enjoy.[via digg]
HDTV Listings for September 30, 2006
What we're watching: Tonight we have the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, featuring special guest Dane Cook. If you didn't see all of The Class, Jericho, Desire and Fashion House that you wanted to during the week, you can catch recaps of all tonight on CBS and MyNetworkTV. Big Ten college football action rules primetime sports tonight, with Ohio State facing Iowa on ABC while Minnesota and Michigan decide the winner of the little brown jug on ESPN-HD.Our traditional high-def listings continue below.
SNL writers distracted by the PSP
Saturday Night Live cast member Jason Sudekis recently had a chat with Yahoo! about video games on the set of the show. Surprisingly, the PSP handheld seems to be the system for the writers and staff of the show. "They all have PSPs there running around Liberty City Stories or playing 18 holes on Hot Shots Golf. Now that PSP is out everyone can play the same game in the same room and you don't have to have a TV."It appears that his favorite games on the handheld come mostly from Sony's excellent launch with the system: Burnout Legends, Twisted Metal Head-On, and Hot Shot Golf. His top game on the PSP is Lumines (great choice, my man!).Those of you that are interested in joining the SNL cast one day better start getting your PSPs revved up.
Apple: The power to crush the other kids
Saturday Night Live has had some fun at Apple's expense over the years. From Nick Burns (MOVE!!) to Steve Jobs appearing on Weekend Update with Tina, they've all been pretty good. My all time favorite, however, is "McIntosh Jr." Young Zach wows his classmates with the killer project he made for Miss Hanson on his "McIntosh." It's very funny, and MacTV has got it ready for download. Check it out...and crush the other kids.
HDTV Listings for April 8, 2006
What we're watching: I criticized golf for being SD-only recently, now that they have joined us in high definition I'm obligated to watch. Minority Report's impressive special effects should make it a great watch in HD at 8 p.m. on ABC, hopefully we'll be able to buy it on disc someday and watch it in HD whenever we want.Depending on your perspective, SNL could go either way on quality tonight, as Antonio Banderas fills in the guest host spot vacated by last week's Scarlett Johanssen.Our traditional high-def listings continue below
HDTV Listings for April 1, 2006
What we're watching: Final Four time, and still George Mason's run continues. Can they get to the final game? We'll find out tonight at 6 on CBS. If you can possibly tear yourself away from some of the best hoops action in history, Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime seems very interesting as the Entourage star takes a trip through India, first of a two parter and debuting tonight on Discovery-HD.After our April Fools joke earlier, we'll be perfectly honest, we are watching the Saturday Night Live repeat in high definition tonight because Scarlett Johansson is incredibly hot. Our traditional high-def listings continue below
Variety of Saturday Night Live video available on iTunes
The iTunes Music Store was just refreshed with a number of new items including some Saturday Night Live content. A few sketch collections by year are available as well as a number of Best of's including Christopher Walken, Adam Sandler, and Glida Radner to name a few.The Best of's will set you back $1.99 each while the sketch collections go for $9.99.Thanks, Andrew!
iPod Invisa for sale on Ebay
Hey, the Steve Jobs skit that recently aired on SNL is finally funny! The all-new, ultra tiny iPod Invisa is for sale on Ebay. It measures 0.000000mm x 0.000000mm x 0.000000mm, weighs 0.000000oz (shipping weight 0.000001 oz), holds 8 million songs as well as every photo ever taken! Here it is pictured next to an iPod mini.The funny part is that the auction is up to $50US (at the time of this posting) across 12 bids. It was a skit, people. If you're that eager to give up fifty bucks, I'll take it.
