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The HT Guys HDTV and Home Theater Podcast #306 - Fall TV Preview
By The HT Guys
Braden Russell and Ara Derderian
Posted on August 28, 2008
Category: General Interest
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Today's Show:
Each year since we've been doing this show we tale a look at the Fall TV season and try to pick shows that we'd like to watch. Back in 2006 when we first starting doing this, a good number of shows were in SD. Today pretty much all of them are in HD with the exception of a few reality shows.

Fall TV Preview

CBS:
Worst Week, The Mentalist, Gary Unmarried, Eleventh Hour, The Ex List

NBC:
America's Toughest Jobs, My Own Worst Enemy, Knight Rider, Kath and Kim, SNL Weekend Update Thursday, Crusoe

ABC:
Opportunity Knocks, Life on Mars

FOX:
Fringe, Do Not Disturb

CW:
90210, Privileged, Stylista, In Harm's Way, Surviving Suburbia, Valentine, Easy Money


Braden's Picks:
New:
  • NBC: Knight Rider, Crusoe, SNL Weekend Update (all 3 of them)
  • ABC: Life on Mars
  • Fox: Do Not Disturb
Possible:
  • CBS: The Mentalist
  • NBC: My Own Worst Enemy
Old:
  • CBS: NCIS, Without a Trace, The Unit, Numb3rs
  • NBC: Chuck, The Office, 30 Rock, ER
  • Fox: Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, 24, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares

Ara's Picks:
New:
  • ABC: Life on Mars
  • Fox: Fringe
Old:
  • ABC: Dancing with the Stars, Lost, Pushing Daises, According to Jim
  • CBS: CSI NY and Miami, Ghost Whisperer, NCIS, The Unit, Numb3rs, Two and a Half Men, How I met your Mother, Big Bang Theory, Rules of Engagement, Survivor
  • NBC: Chuck, 30 Rock, Deal or No Deal, Heroes
  • Fox: Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Bones, House, 24, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, American Idol

Midseason Replacements
ABC - Lost, According to Jim, Scrubs (formerly of NBC) and The Bachelor.

CBS - Rules of Engagement and Harper's Island.

The CW - Reaper

Fox - 24, American Idol and Hell's Kitchen,

NBC - Law & Order, Friday Night Lights, Medium, Merlin, and Kings

TV Guide has a nice grid with all the new and returning shows: Fall TV Preview
Yahoo! has short descriptions for some of the new shows: New Fall Shows

Posted by The HT Guys, August 28, 2008 10:45 PM

Reader Commentary

See Forum Topic: HDTV and Home Theater Podcast #319 - Updates on PlayOn and DLNA Servers (4 replies)
Oct 14, 6:42am
Help me to understand how my Windows PC will have the PlayOn software and connect to the PS3. Do I have to connect these two units together? Can the PS3 go directly to HULU.COM via my wireless router and access the shows that way? Why do I need PlayOn?
Oct 14, 7:03am
Just going by the text of the article it sounds like PlayOn acts as a media server on your local home network. PlayOn manages the content from multiple services and provides the PS3 with a single media player interface. You manage everything from your P
Oct 14, 8:48am
OK. So does the PS3 connect to my PC (with PlayON mediaserver) over my LinkSys home wireless network? Is there special software for the PS3?
Oct 14, 8:56am
It just uses your home networking connection (ethernet) - doesn't matter whether it's wired or wireless. The PS3 will automatically find any media servers on the network whether it's PlayOn or anything else.
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About The HT Guys

The HT Guys, Ara Derderian and Braden Russell, are Engineers who formerly worked for the Advanced Digital Systems Group (ADSG) of Sony Pictures Entertainment. ADSG was the R&D unit of the sound department producing products for movie theaters and movie studios.

Two of the products they worked on include the DCP-1000 and DADR-5000. The DCP is a digital cinema processor used in movie theaters around the world. The DADR-5000 is a disk-based audio dubber used on Hollywood sound stages.

ADSG was awarded a Technical Academy Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2000 for the development of the DADR-5000. Ara holds three patents for his development work in Digital Cinema and Digital Audio Recording.

Every week they put together a podcast about High Definition TV and Home Theater. Each episode brings news from the A/V world, helpful product reviews and insights and help in demystifying and simplifying HDTV and home theater.