SpaceRodent » TV http://www.spacerodent.org Move along…Nothing to see here… Sun, 07 Aug 2011 05:16:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Murder, She Wrote http://www.spacerodent.org/2009/09/murder-she-wrote/ http://www.spacerodent.org/2009/09/murder-she-wrote/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:03:46 +0000 dennisr http://www.spacerodent.org/?p=267 First of let me say that Netflix streaming is awesome. I have XBOX Live Gold so I can use my 360 to watch it on my TV. My wife and I have been watching Murder, She Wrote. I love mysteries and the lead character, J.B. Fletcher, is like a female version of Sherlock Holmes.

It’s nice to see a program with older people in it. Seems that all the TV lately is all about the young people. It’s also great to see a world with no internet or cell phones.

Personally after watching a few episodes I figured the F.B.I. would hunt her down as being a serial killer since everywhere she goes someone dies and she “solves” the crime:)

]]> http://www.spacerodent.org/2009/09/murder-she-wrote/feed/ 0 M*A*S*H DVD Menus are the best http://www.spacerodent.org/2009/08/mash-dvd-menus-are-the-best/ http://www.spacerodent.org/2009/08/mash-dvd-menus-are-the-best/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:27:20 +0000 dennisr http://www.spacerodent.org/?p=252 M*A*S*H is my favorite TV series of all time and I typically watch the entire series at least a couple of times a year. One of the things that took me a while to notice was how well the DVD menus are. Each season has a different look and most incorporate scenes from the episodes in the episode sub menu. Fonts are different, they sometimes wrap to scene elements and in one case they are backwards.

I am including a couple of screen shots to make my point.

Here we see the menu tacked onto the ring and it almost looks like it should be there

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The topic for the episode, exchanging red for blue, is used as the menu. I like how they used both colors.

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This one is my favorite. In this episode Radar tries his hand at writing. I love how the font is backwards.

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It seems to me this was the promise of DVD but very few movies and TV series really make use of the available media to make each disc unique.

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