Year: 2009

Technology

Elgato EyeTV Sat: the missing Freesat settings

24 July 2009 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

Elgato EyeTV Sat

For a big chunk of this week, I’ve been fighting to the death with an Elgato EyeTV Sat box. This is a nifty little gadget that lets you get Freesat on your Mac, including BBC HD in full high def quality, provided you

  1. Live in the UK
  2. Have a satellite dish and a spare lead from it somewhere
  3. Have £180 or so

The full review is going to be in MacFormat issue 212, so you’ll have to wait until then for my full review of it. However, one of the issues I had was actually tuning it to receive all the Freesat channels, since the auto-tune failed to pick up big chunks of them (including Channel 4, More4, E4, Film4, BBC3, BBC4, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 as well as their time-shifted siblings). Elgato swear this shouldn’t be a problem, but it was.

Fortunately, after a bit of liaising with Elgato over the settings, I was able to get all the channels. Since Elgato doesn’t seem to want to publish them on its web site according to my exchanges with them – and since MacFormat simply won’t have the space to print all this – after the jump, all the settings an EyeTV Sat owner might need to get his or her box working properly.

I suspect I might get as many as 10 or even 20 hits on this page, but I figured it might be useful to some people. The rest of you? As you were.

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Slightly better, extended Heroes: Redemption trailer

24 July 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

I imagine I’m going to keep doing this until the proper version is released by NBC. This is the full extended trailer for Heroes: Redemption (aka the start of season four, at least). Obviously, it contains spoilers, but officially sanctioned spoilers. No Mohinder (oh dear?) but lots of Tracy, Noah, Claire, Hiro, Matt and Nathan as well as (spoiler alert) Peter seems to have his full powers back and Sylar’s still in there. And Robert Knepper’s really good.

Friday’s prequels news

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Doctor Who

Film

British TV

  • Five picks up Flash Forward
  • ITV2 picks up The Vampire Diaries
  • C4 and Five still in talks
  • Supernatural to move to Living and Virgin 1 from ITV2
  • BBC2 to make its own Moonlighting with Toby Stephens and Lucy Punch
  • BBC3 commissions puppet comedy

US TV

US TV

Review: Ruby and The Rockits 1×1

23 July 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Ruby and The Rockits

In the US: Tuesdays, 8.30/7.30c, ABC Family

You kind of have to admire a showbiz family that not only has longevity but sticks together. The Cassidy brothers have been around since the early 70s, with David Cassidy starring in The Partridge Family; Shaun Cassidy starring in The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries; Patrick Cassidy starring in the TV version of Dirty Dancing as well as the movie Longtime Companion; and Ryan Cassidy starring in The Facts of Life.

Shaun Cassidy went on to become a successful TV writer, developing among other things the (unfortunately) not very good Invasion . Now he’s written a sitcom for ABC Family that stars not just one but two of his brothers and has the other working behind-the-scenes.

Unfortunately, just like Invasion and, in fact, most ABC Family comedies, it’s a bit derivative and not much cop, even if it is about two musical former pop stars – you’d think they’d be playing to their strengths there.

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Adam – An Asperger’s love story

23 July 2009 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Just found out about Adam. Ah. How sweet!

In this heartfelt romantic comedy, Hugh Dancy (THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB, CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC) stars as Adam, a handsome but intriguing young man who has all his life led a sheltered existence – until he meets his new neighbor, Beth (Rose Byrne, “Damages,” 28 WEEKS LATER, KNOWING).

It’s already won an award at the Sundance Film Festival, and was the closing night premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival at the end of June. It’s in US cinemas July 29th and in the UK on August 7th.