What is WoW? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne badie" <astromancer2...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:59:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Hulu--Who Knew?
Hey, thanks to Martin and Keith, sites like Hulu and Fancast were places I turned to catch up with episodes of shows from the Sci-Fi Channel after Comcrap dumped it into their digital money pit.....Hey guys, as of Mid-March, I have been Comcrap-free! Granted, I'm on DSL and steaming videos sucks on this P4, but I hope Advanced TV comes to my part of town this winter or I can switch to WoW, Comcrap's competitor... --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Augustus Augustus <jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Augustus Augustus <jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [RE][ scifinoir 2] Hulu--Who Knew? To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 5:17 PM continue.... ......... ......... .. the should have gotten the rights 2: firefly and continued it. that was a great show! here is a question, whatever happened 2: surface & invasion? they did one season, and then done. i especially like invasion.... .now that i am ranting, what about threshold? and daylight? still a little miffed about the early cancellation of SG:A too. hell, SG:1 also! heck, they could have continued Enterprise and did a couple of DS9 made 4 tv movies too! sorry about the rant, but it slipped out. Fate. --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Tracey de Morsella <tdli...@multicultur aladvantage. com> wrote: From: Tracey de Morsella <tdli...@multicultur aladvantage. com> Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Hulu--Who Knew? To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 4:42 PM In addition to Dresden add Farscape, Eureka, and Battlestar. I never saw all of Dresden. I will have to check it out From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Augustus Augustus Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:23 AM To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Hulu--Who Knew? Martin, i really missed the Dresden Files. that was one that was kool that scify messed up on. Fate. --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ lycos.com> wrote: From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ lycos.com> Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] Hulu--Who Knew? To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 8:16 AM Keith, there was a web site that had those last three in their entirety. The place was shut down the day after I found it, the old story about rights and so on. :-( Myself, I've only used Hulu a few times, my last visitt not for myself, but for a dear friend who missed an ep of NCIS she really had her mind set on viewing. I went there to obtain and send her the link to it. Before that, it was to catch up on 'The Dresden Files". ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] Hulu--Who Knew? Date : Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:26:29 +0000 (UTC) >From : Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Wow, this is pretty cool! Frustrated at having missed back-to-back eps of "Legend of the Seeker" yesterday, I went to the series' website to watch it online. As I clicked on one of the eps, I noticed that it was a Hulu feed. Hulu, perhaps you've heard of it? :) I haven't done much with it past glancing at a few things. Not currently owning a nice widescreen computer monitor or flatscreen TV, I never much saw the need to watch programs on my 14" laptop screen. But I have to admit, the speed with which "Seeker" streamed surprised me. And the clarity--wow! Even on my old IBM T42 laptop running pokey WinXP, the picture looked great. Intrigued, i then navigated to the Hulu website. Wow. One reason I haven't been as much of a You Tube nut as some people--such as my brother, who's always on me for not watching movies there--is that a lot of the stuff on You Tube is not all that great quality. I especially hate going full screen with an animated clip, only to get a pixelated, blurry image. Other sites like Apple have great looking trailers, but sometimes the download speed is a bit slow. Hulu impressed me by offering the best of both aspects. I found myself going to the Animation section (of course), and was greeted with a wealth of choices. Too many to mention them all, but not everything I could want (no old Looney Tunes or Popeye, Felix the Cat seems to be the inferiour version from the late 20th Century). But still, enough things to keep me very, very happy. Let me mention just a few things that caught my eye: Exosquad! http://www.hulu. com/exosquad? c=Animation- and-Cartoons The late great cartoon that showed Americans could actually make a good, serious 'toon. Fifty-one eps (a handful are missing). Makes me very, very happy! I will note the quality isn't the greatest--not that it's bad, but the series itself never had the sharpness and beauty of something like Robotech or any other Japanese 'toon. But still, it looks the same on Hulu as I remember it on broadcast TV. If you've never watched this show do yourself a favor and check it out. Rocky and Bullwinkle http://www.hulu. com/rocky- and-bullwinkle- and-friends? c=Animation- and-Cartoons The classic, satirical 'toon from the '60s, which even includes great stuff like Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman! Haven't seen yet if my fave, Fractured Fairy Tales, is included as well. But with thirteen twenty-two minute eps, I think it must be there. Talk about a blast from the past! Speed Racer http://www.hulu. com/speed- racer?c=Animatio n-and-Cartoons The Monster Car! The Great Race! The Supersonic Car! All the great, horribly/amusingly dubbed episodes you remember loving as a child. I don't care how many times I see 'em (and I own several), hearing that theme, watching that cool car jump across a chasm or roll along the bottom of a lake, and listening to the characters' hyper speech--it's still great fun! Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids http://www.hulu. com/fat-albert? c=Animation- and-Cartoons This 'toon is like a snowy day in January: too cool for school! And even.... Bravestarr http://www.hulu. com/bravestarr? c=Animation- and-Cartoons the adventures of Marshall Bravestarr, the Native with animal-based powers who protects the people of the planet New Texas. Like Exosquad and many American-made 'toons of that time, it's not exactly the sharpest, finely detailed cartoon around, but it has nice pastels. And I still get a kick of of "Equestroid" Thirty-thirty speaking fondly of his beloved gun Sarah Jane! Now, if only they could pick up eps of the awesome 'toon "The Real Ghostbusters" , "Battle of the Planets", and "Starblazers" , I'd be ecstatic! http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds