I recently activated The Movie Network: OnDemand and I have to tell ya, I don’t think I will ever go back to watching regularly scheduled programs. With a subscription to The Movie Network, I am able to select almost any one of their titles and view the program any time I want. This works great for me because I hate having to work my schedule around the networks programming. So, in the past, I just wouldn’t watch the programs. With more and more people switching to digital cable and PVRs, I can see programming really changing once people have a choice of what they really want to watch. I don’t know how many times in the past I have been turned off to a program because a network has “Given it a new timeslot.” Fuck that! In the past 10 years, I have watched the scheduled programs of X-Files and Carnivale.
Unfortunately, both those series ending with nothing really being solved. I think X-Files actually Jumped the shark. Carnivale, didn’t have the following that HBO wanted for this high budget series. I actually think they cancelled it so that they could show the high budget Rome series in it’s place.
Anyhow, I have started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm with the new On Demand. I also plan on watching Rome as well, although I did originally boycott the series because it took Carnivale’s place.
Here are the highlights with OnDemand:
1. What is it?
The Movie Network OnDemand allows you to view a fantastic selection of movies and series when you want, as often as you want, all with the pause, rewind, fast-forward capabilities you get from your VCR or DVD player. Best of all, The Movie Network OnDemand is FREE with your subscription to The Movie Network.
2. What’s on it?
The Movie Network OnDemand offers you instant and unlimited access to over 100 movies, HBO & Showtime series and original programming. No waiting. No schedules. The movies and series you want to watch when you want to watch them. The Movie Network OnDemand refreshes the library of available titles every Tuesday so that there is always something new for you to enjoy.
3. When is it available?
With your subscription to The Movie Network, you can watch any of the programs available on The Movie Network OnDemand at any time, day or night FREE of charge. The Movie Network OnDemand puts you in control.
You should watch Sleeper Cell. It’s about a group of American Muslim terroists. I watched all the episodes. Good show! Makes you think.
I tried to get to Sleeper Cell website on showtime and I forgot that the site is only available in the US :S
Anyhow, Jody had the same problem and he used some proxy website to get to showtime.
Sleeper Cell isn’t OnDemand yet, so I doubt that I will be watching it. I hate watching TV at night.
Carnivale will be back, it had a great following i think. I think it’s scheduled to come back in late spring, early summer. probably more like the summer, in between the 2 mini-seasons of sopranos that HBO is doing this year.
oh and yeah, i just discovered that OnDemand thing over the xmas break. it’s cool, but i didn’t see many movies i wanted to see on their list…
Really! Carnivale will be back? Thank God!
Me too with the movies. Sometimes there is a diamond in the rough, usually a foreign film that I normally wouldn’t rent. Michelle usually watches those and encourages me to watch them too. She has picked out some pretty good ones too.
I have been watching Curb Your Enthusiasm and that is a riot. It’s like watching the life of George Castanza only better. I know that the George character was based on Larry David but I watched George first.
Here is the real deal Carnivale Season 3, right from the mouth, er words, of creator Daniel Knauf.
CarnivaleHBO Message Board
Sucks if it’s true.
I watched the first two seasons of “Curb Your Enthusiam,” along with the original 1-hour special, and loved it. But it seemed to lose its freshness in the 3rd season, more contrived, and I haven’t watched it since. Surprised it’s gone on to 4 seasons.
I recently rented “The Office” on DVD (UK version, series 1 and 2, plus the special), and I think it’s the funniest show I’ve seen in years. They were smart only to do 2 seasons.
Is the “Sopranos” still going? I watched all 5 seasons on DVD over the period of a couple months. Season 5 seemed to drag on, but the rest of it was excellent.
Has the new season of “Battlestar Galactica” started? Looking forward to that download.
I can’t believe I’m leaving a comment on a blog that isn’t Steel White Table.
Steel White Table is why I started my own blog so don’t feel so bad
I think Curb is on season 5. The first episode I watched, Larry David ragged this guy out for parking in a handicap space. The guy gets out of his car and stutters, “I-I-I have a-a-a-a st-st-st-stutter you fu-fu-fucking p-p-prick!” I don’t think I stopped laughing for about 5 minutes. Then Larry David used the same line when he wanted to use a handicap stall in the restroom and there was a lineup of people waiting to use the normal stall.
Classic stuff!
I emphasize FREE even though it’s a service you have to pay for. It’s just an ultra-super-duper-sekrat payment to the service. Not unlike the secret service, only more entertaining.
Yes, it’s a FREE service that I pay $20 a month for. Go figure!
Well you motivated me to show my girlfriend this article, now we got the movie network for $12 a month.
We watch movies constantly though. Hell, over the holidays I forced her to watch 7 kung fu movies with me, now she’s hooked on kung fu. Eastlink doesn’t have OnDemand yet, but we got the network anyhow. They should have OnDemand in a couple of months or something though.
You bring out the capitalist bastard in me.
$12 a month? I think that what I get charged for the movie network too but I think there is another $8 dollars a month to some bullshit that makes it $20. And no, it’s not a porn channel
I should look up my bill and post all my Rogers expenses.
I have been playing Kung2 on the eyetoy for the PS2. Fucking fun too. You have to actually yell at the TV to get more health
Oh those bastards, they better not charge me another $8 or I’ll burn them down.
The cocksuckers fucked up on adding the movie network to our package too, we somehow lost all our free channels for the promotion they had. They were going to expire soon, but that’s beside the point. So the movie network cost me free channels and $12 (OR ELSE) a month.
I looked up my bill. Here it is:
VIP Ultimate & Movies Package$113.40VIP Digital Terminal19.95Digital Services Fee1.99Before Discounts$135.34VIP Ultimate & Movies Discount23.45VIP Discount5.98Better Choice Bundles 15% Disc.13.79Subtotal$92.12Taxes13.82Total$105.94I needed to rent the HDTV digital terminal. I wasn’t going to buy one for $500. But I am sure they are much cheaper now.
I think Rogers has different packages for different provinces. Here is my bill
My bundle for $117 (after 15% savings)
Your Bundle includes:
Basic Movies & Hi-Speed Bundle
Cable, Ultimate TV Pack, Extra
Outlets, rental of your first
Digital Cable, The Movies Package,
Feature or Primeurs
magazine
5 Specialty channels, Timeshifting, Rogers
Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet
VIP Cable Partner benefits.
Here’s another funny Rogers story. While I was in NB in September, I thought I would call Rogers for my parents and see about getting them digital cable. My dad doesn’t really watch TV (other than the French channel and he speaks Greek….a whole other story), so I thought I would inquire about the Greek channels. In Ontario I think there are about 8 channels to choose from.
Well as I was speaking to the Rogers agent, I asked what International or Ethnic channels they offered in the area. Shockingly enough they offered 2 French channels and I believe an Italian channel and a chinese channel. When I told her I wasn’t looking for any of the 4 channels, she asked what I was looking for. I told her Greek. Her response was “Well, we have this Telelatino channel that might be similar”. Where the hell does Rogers hirer these people from????
They hire them from India. Italian, Roman, Greek, all the same.
How’s my computer package coming along?