I Heart Digital TV

Because I live in South Carolina and not too far from Georgia the local cable system carries two Public Broadcasting stations, one from each state. Both these two stations, along with almost all the other local broadcasters, changed over to digital broadcasting this last Tuesday the 17th, as originally planned.

Now I don’t watch much TV period, so as a corollary I don’t watch much Public Television. Occasionally there would be something I would like to see there, but could never bring myself to watch it. You see both stations are fairly low powered affairs and the signal picked up by the cable company was, to put it mildly, crap, so the picture was mostly snow. Now that the digital era has dawned, the two public broadcasting stations are coming in almost crystal clear, so I might have to again start looking into what these stations have to offer.

While we are chatting about TV, we went out to dinner with friends tonight and didn’t make it home in time to see Terminator:The Sarah Conner Chronicles, so I’m downloading the torrent right now. We were home in time to see Dollhouse and I didn’t bother. I’ve said it here before and I’ll say it again, both Donna and I loved Firefly, but couldn’t stand Buffy or Angel. Sorry Joss, but we are adding Dollhouse to the list of Couldn’t Stands. I know last week I said I would give it time and perhaps if the internet buzz was huge and critics were claiming it as the best new thing on TV since, well, the last best new thing, I might, but they’re not, so I’m not.