Next Row

Things get fairly predictable through the whole line up of channels..  The next row starts with the channel OV Guide.. What this is, I believe, is short for Online Video guide, strangely enough this channel is basically a potential channel, the possibility that there is something that could be watched.. I never have watched anything on the channel and recently they changed their UI (user interface) and it takes a while to load.. Sometimes when a channel takes a while to load it has the feeling that it has locked up, so I sometimes push the home button to make sure it is still working..  Potential for watching a movie, tv show..  Something and truth be told since I haven't watched anything at all on this channel it should be on the delete list.. But it's that potential thing that gets to me.. Sorry I just can't delete it.. I know I can reacquire it very easily but...   The next channel is.. Yahoo! screen.. This channel is a very good channel but it wasn't in the early days.. In fact that locking the box that I was talking about in the previous channel, is what Yahoo screen was most noted for in the early days of it working... But they got it fixed, and now it rarely locks the box but that can be said for all the channels really.. Yahoo was just very famous for locking it.. What's on this channel?? Well a lot of video clips.. Entertainment, political shit..  late night clips as well as sports.. NHL hockey clips and Major League baseball highlights and the really great is recap where they replay the games pitch by pitch.. Rather than showing the whole games.. They have nascar highlights as well..  Then there is PBS.. PBS is the app/channel to have for a lot of the programming that is on public broadcasting.. The biggest problem with watching anything there is finding the time to watch it.. All the programming on your local PBS station is there..  Fantastic to have, hard to find the time...


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With Football season starting watching this has changed again.. Sort of.. But here we go..

Super Volcano about the volcano under Yellowstone erupting and having the fun of living with that happen..  The problem I have with this "true story, it just hasn't happened yet"  movie was that while having it be dark when the eruption was going on, when the eruption chilled the sky returned to pure blue like nothing had happened.. They said the northern hemisphere would be many shades darker and yet it was very nice looking.. I thought using a colour wash filter or effect was needed for that but.. Oh well, guess scarring the shit out of people was good enough at that..

This isn't available on Netflix, not this as it shows here..  What it is .. is called Slow TV.. and I read about this last week about this being added to Netflix,, What it is.. Slow tv which is a full days trip from one end of Norway to the other in the Arctic circle.. The way it looks is really fantastic, I've always said if I could visit any country it would be Norway..   The version of this video that is on Netflix is an hour long.. This her is the original ten hour opus epic journey..  Slow but exciting.. Enjoy the trip..

Who Took Johnny...  This documentary is a sad statement on the police state that at the time (1980's) and there was still some innocence back then.. I remembered as this was playing that back then we had that Tylenol scare where someone poisoned Tylenol and that started the state of having child proof tamper proof adult proof containers.. Keep people from tampering with products.. A sad state of affairs with this little boy being taken is a lot of things changed.. Back in the day kids walked to school without adult supervision.. That changed about this time and not just because of Johnny but also other children were being taken.. That's where all that started..

Sky with Diane Kruger .. And Norman Reedus he of The Walking Dead fame.. It was strange to see him actually cleaned up..  This movie had an art house feel to it as well as independent production.. Very nice little story..

Star Wars IV A New Hope... this is the original Star Wars movie from 1977.. And no it is not available on Netflix.. I decided since there is a subchannel on the X-TV channel on the Roku to try it out.. It isn't the original movie.. I don't think it is anyway.. There are bits that are changed.. I think anyway although I have to say I haven't seen this is a very long time.. How long ago?? My parents gave me the original three movies to me on VHS tapes back.. when they did, it was before I had a dvd player which doesn't say much, I held out beyond the dvd being around.. i'm always slow on the change of technology, I like it to really take hold, that reasoning was after the buying a Beta vcr when it was quite obvious that VHS was the main format.. I wrote about this elsewhere.. Anyway this is quite the movie, and my plan is to watch the entire series since all of them are on this channel, all seven of them..  We'll see if this rates somewhere in the snooze category..


Badge Henry