Galactica Commentary Podcast Available 147
Kichigai Mentat writes "Apparently SciFi channel is pushing the bounds of your average TV viewing experience with "Battlestar Galactica." First came a full, uncut stream of the first episode, now a full episode commentary podcast available as a Podcast stream, episode-length MP3 file for download, or invividual MP3 files for each "Act." The podcasts are released a week in advance, and listeners are warned about spoilers."
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See Wired's article. [wired.com]
Who cares about terminology. WAS: Re:podcast... (Score:1)
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http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ mp3/109/bsg_ep109_FULL.mp3
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http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ mp3/108/bsg_ep108_FULL.mp3
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Maybe they can get Pat Sharp to be the next HP CEO...
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That is a bad name (Score:3, Interesting)
The iPod sure is popular, but it does not dominate everything.
Re:That is a bad name (Score:5, Informative)
And re: the first person's comment, this isn't a webcast. A webcast would be the idea of something broadcast over the web. The "unique" aspect of the podcasting stuff is supposed to be using the iPodder software to automatically subscribe to podcasts and sync them up to your portable mp3 player to listen to whenever. Which is different than just listening to a webcast online.
-Tom
Re:That is a bad name (Score:1)
"Of course, it works with other mp3 players, but that is where the original name comes from, and it's just happened to stick. "
Apple might eventually get uneasy more and more references to ANY portable sound/music players use the term "pod" or "ipod". They could conceivably end with with the brand name going soft. It has happened before: "While you are at the store, pick me up some coke. Pepsi-brand coke might be ok. Also, a box of kleenex. Puff brand kleenex will do just fin
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What is it? Prince 'o Darkness -casting?
Your host tonight is none other than Lucifer himself!
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in other words.. it's just an audio track.
can't blame them though, just by going with the podcast trend they'll get shitloads of (podcasting)bloggers to mention it.
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Why didn't they just link to the MP3? You have to download *yet another* frikkin app just to listen to it. Personally I'm not going to bother.
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but a gazillion podcasters/bloggers are going to - just so that they can tell of it on their next blog entry or podcast(yes, i am annoyed by blogs that mainly discuss blogging - at the same time i don't read books about writing).
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I get the notion, AmigaAvenger, that it takes a while for you to warm up to new technologies...
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On topic -- The Battlestar Gallactica commentary feeds are a great use for podcasts. I'd love to see someone add support for these to Tivo and MythTV. I eagerly look forward to someone using this to add MST3K type commentary to state of the union addresses.
Good idea, but... (Score:2)
Those are, uh
Adding commentary to a live-broadcast television event via (what I understand to be) a pre-recorded, non-streaming technology might prove just a little difficult to effect.
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The 'pod' part of the name is indeed from iPod, as that is the most popular MP3 player out there.
Check out ipodder.org and podc
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Um, no. That's not what this is. A podcast is an encoded audio file, MP3 or similar, that's delivered via an Atom feed as an enclosure. Your client program, if you choose to use one, downloads it straight into iTunes for syncing to your iPod. Hence "podcast." It's a very specific thing.
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These things get named, and you think, "Wow, someone is broadcasting from their iPod, that's cool!" [Reads article] "WTF? Why do they call it a Podcast?"
I remember when I first heard of 'bots, your friendly little program buddy that will go wandering around the 'net, doing little things, then coming back with information, or whatever. I thought, "Cool! I'll start one of these 'bot things going, log off, come back in the morning, and see what it's found!" [Reads more about
LOL good one (Score:1, Funny)
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Isn't it great... (Score:5, Insightful)
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And of course Cinemax created a whole new market for softcore po
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Ciao
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For me, it's the scriptwriting and the acting that make the new BSG. I really dislike the drunken-cameraman style of cinematography. I don't find it "realistic" since I don't wobble half that much when standing around talking to people. And while Firefly had a few quick-change focal lengths that would fuzz the focus on CG shots and it was a cool effect, BSG does it constantly. It seems every CG s
Re:Isn't it great... (Score:2)
Look, I can understand they don't allow computer networks so the Cylons can't infiltrate the entire ship at once but outlawing Steadi-Cams???
Re:Isn't it great... (Score:2)
I saw '33' and found it irritating and boring.
I just downloaded episode 11 and found it exactly the same, or maybe worse.
The wobbly, nausiating camera isn't half of it; they may as well call the Galactica 'Spaceship One' because its just yanks in space. Ms President... ewwww
The imaginary 'cylon' girlfriend is really stupid; that guy would have been spotted as unstable in the first episode and put away or maybe just drugged and allowed to perform janitorial dutie
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What 'What?'? (Score:1)
Re:Isn't it great... (Score:2)
But it seems that one mans poor acting is another mans good acting; I thought the acting in Space A&B was appaling. As were the plots, the props, the backstory... you get the idea.
I think the animated 'roughnecks' series had better acting...
Just one mans opinion, mind.
Re:Isn't it great... (Score:5, Informative)
In any field.
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Podcast? (Score:5, Informative)
Ah, Wikipedia to the rescue! [wikipedia.org]
Re:Podcast? (Score:2, Interesting)
Ah, Wikipedia to the rescue! [wikipedia.org]
To add to that, (and re-using a previous post of mine);
1. Blog/show format vs. radio. While podcasting is referred to as a type of radio...it's not. It's an audio blog. If you don't like blogs, and could care less about talk radio or public radio, podcasting is a waste of time for you. NPR btw has a few podcasts. I suggest listening to IT Conversations as well...even has non-IT specific content that I haven't heard elsewhere.
2. You can take podcasts w
Re:Podcast? (Score:1)
My two favorite podcasts are music shows and they don't sound like talk radio at all. I highly recommend Coverville [coverville.com] and The Sounds In My Head [thesoundsinmyhead.com]. Both are very well produced and showcase fantastic music with very little talk between songs.
Re:Podcast? (Score:2)
Agreed. For a while I listened to the 250 Million radio show -- http://www.acmenoise.com/temp/250millionradio.xml -- though it seems to have slowed down or has been cancled (or maybe I'm impatient).
If you dig through everything I wrote, there are quite a few other erro
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I subscribe to the $250 Million Radio Show, too. A new show just popped up about a week ago.
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Is there any Podcasting software (ideally for Mac OS X) that will automatically download new podcasts, transfer them to iTunes with special tags of my choosing (so that I can filter them and put them in a special playlist), and then automatically tell iTunes to initiate an iPod sync? Without those features, I'm not totally sold on Podcasting...
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I use NetNewsWire 2, personally. (It's in public beta.) There are other clients, but this is the one I'm familiar with. Under the preferences are settings related to feed enclosures. You can tell NetNewsWire to automatically download audio enclosures and load them into iTunes. You can have it add them to a named playlist, or to put them in their own playlists corresp
Great stuff! (Score:4, Interesting)
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Upwards of $60? Jeez are you ever watching the wrong shows. Most Fox owned series top out at $60 MSRP, and retail for $10-15 less than that.
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Check that. Just ordered it.
Podcast = download. Doesn't even stream (Score:1, Insightful)
It's one guy, talking. And he's boring. This isn't Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's more like "shut up, I'm watching the show".
Incidentally, if you're shipping out voice recorded with one microphone, both channels are the same and there's no reason to send it in stereo. Just bloats the file.
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Stereo? mpg123 reports this when playing:
Doesn't look stereo to me.
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Yeah, every single person downloading the entire file from a single server? Bleagh! Cross this with Bittorrent, and you'll have something worthwhile.
Re:Podcast = download. Doesn't even stream (Score:3, Insightful)
Dude, you got this so wrong.
A 'podcast' is where you have a program which automatically downloads mp3's by checking an RSS feed, and copies them over to iTunes for your iPod (you don't actually have to have an iPod, but the whole experience is designed with the iPod in mind, hence the name). This is like TiVo for your Internet broadcasts, this is far superior to s
Re:Podcast = download. Doesn't even stream (Score:1)
tesla = visionary
got it?
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Seems a bit strange offering an MP3 (downloadable via another app... I can't say this enough... WHY????) - I mean who has an MP3 player on when watching the TV???
Re:Podcast = download. Doesn't even stream (Score:2)
And as for why the commentary isn't included in the broadcast, the answer is obvious: Because the episode was shot and finished months ago, while the commentary was recorded Thursday.
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The main advantage to having it being downloadable via another program is that it is kind of like the old push technology so that you can subscribe to it and forget about it so that next week's episode will be downloaded automatically.
Battlestar Galatica icon (Score:4, Insightful)
There really hasn't been anything like it on TV in a while, and it is obvious that the producers pay attention to what fans think. I rememeber last year, there were postings on Slashdot about why after all the nuking Caprica didn't have nuclear winter effects, radiation. Now, 2nd season, the characters need radiation shots and the weather is awful (although shouldn't it be cold and icy instead of rainy?)
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And the Baltar character is hilarious. Like last episode when Starbuck caught him and his imaginary(?) cylon GF doing it doggy style. It was sexy without being UPNish and funny without being stupid and, well, UPNish. I like how they introduce an edgy, troublesome character like commander Ty's wife and don't just send her off at the end of the episode StarTrek syle. Or it was cool when Boomer started getting hot and bothered over the Cylon fighter ship. I could go on and on. I wish the people who were doing Enterprise had had 1/10nth of the creativity. The one episode where they came close to the human level BSG gets is when they had shoreleave on that one planet, and Hoshi got bent over by that big alien guy. It was funny, totally unexpected from that particular character and made them seem like real people.
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So, you've invented a Cylon detector that always results green?
Yes, avoids too many awkward questions. A time saver, really.
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In a nuclear winter, the first effect of multiple detonations would indeed be a ton of rain, as all the fallout in the air seeds tons of rainclouds. Then, as the dust blanket spreads around the planet, temperatures would plummet and the ozone layer would disintegrate due to the effects of the nitrous oxides released in the explosions. I'm fairly certain most of that constant rain has cleared up, so it should get very dark and cold soon.
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Baltar really is great. He's a perfect example of a character who toes the line between the "good" and "evil" sides, without committing too much to one or the other. Unlike a lot of "renegade" characters who never do anything truly objectionable, even though they might work for the other side, Baltar does things we like and things we hate.
I also like the fact that the Cylons are monotheistic and the humans are polytheistic, insofar as they are religious. There's a tendency in our society to see monotheism as a more sophisticated or advanced philosophy, and usually when we see a polytheistic society fighting a monotheistic one, the monotheistic one is the more advanced and "good" side. Mixing it up like this really gives one an insight into how we unconsciously bias towards societies with religions similar to our own.
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It's not widely known, I guess, but the breathless predictions of nuclear winter in the 1980s have been called into question by new simulations. While nuclear detonations certainly would put a lot of dust into the air, it's not at all clear that a full-scale nuclear war would result in the kind of planet-altering catastrophe predicted by Sagan and others. The planet is big, bigger than most folks realiz
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A full-scale superpower war would probably only target cities in the superpowers, though. Did the Cylon invasion target all cities, or just the major strategic sites? I suppose they would have only targeted strategic sites, to preserve as much as possible for their own use...but if they're after extermination, they might have just carpet-bombed the place. In that case, it might be better to compare the Cylon invasion to the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.
I can't find a screenshot, but I do remember
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We know that it didn't target all cities with heavy weapons. At least one (unnamed) city were left basically intact but for broken windows. Later, we'll see Delphi, a city that was attacked but clearly not hit with a large nuclear weapon.
the planet's atmosphere looks extremely yellow and cloudy
It looked like that before, I think. I think that's just the "Caprica look." I won't swear to that, however; it's just my impression.
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I think the Baltar character is evidence both of the sophistication of the writers and their belief that their audience is sophisticated enough to appreciate such a three dimensional ambiguous character.
pushing the boundaries (Score:3, Insightful)
I hope this works out for them (Score:1)
My personal hope is they end up allowing downloads for all the previous season's episodes. Maybe in a lower resolution and without extras to provide incentiv
Re:I hope this works out for them (Score:4, Interesting)
The little extras they're giving us are just part of their overall campaign. It's a small part, but the attention to detail (such as the behind the scenes interviews with cast and crew) definitely adds to my enjoyment.
I join you in your hope that they will continue to release online versions of all the episodes, but I don't think it will happen beyond a very limited basis. FWIW, I got the miniseries off of BT and watched it last night and ordered the DVD from Amazon about 15 minutes ago. I don't like to think of myself as a pirate, but I'll accept the title of "illegal previewer". =)
SciFi Channel creativity (Score:3, Interesting)
I was never a fan of Sliders (corny and illogical), but the SciFi web site tie in was a true gem, with its clever contests and imaginative episode tie-ins. My favorite was the tie-in for the ep where the good guys are captured by the evil Cromags and thrown in a prison camp. The tie-in for that ep was the camp newsletter. Great stuff!
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The write-your-on-caption feature on the Sci-Fi website was very cool.
Torrent (Score:3, Informative)
Here is a torrent of the Full PodCast. It's 20MB.
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Here is the podcast URL:
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podca s t/ podcast.xml
I'm not making a hyperlink out of that because it doesn't point to a Web page. It points to an RSS feed. You copy and paste that URL into your podcast client. Once subscribed, your client downloads each new audio file as it's available (in this case, each Friday) and sticks it straight into iTunes, where it automatically syncs to yo
Re:Torrent (Score:1, Troll)
Firstly you have to have an Ipod... probably a lot of slashdotters do... they don't seem to be that common in 'the big blue room' (I know one other person with one out of maybe 200 I deal with in a week).
Secondly that Ipod needs to be constantly connected to the PC - which *completely* defeats the object of the ipod. The point is you load your music collection onto it then you're sorted unless you buy some more albums (rare for me).. Hell, mine has only seen a dock twice si
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They are by far the most common music player in the world. Something like nine out of ten music players sold is an iPod.
Secondly that Ipod needs to be constantly connected to the PC
No, that's not how an iPod works. If you don't own one, it's understandable that you should be confused about this, but it's really very simple. You plug in the iPod, iTunes syncs either your entire music library or a subset of it, depending on how big your library and your iPod are. You go
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Besides, the Sci Fi server cluster that hosts both the feed and the enclosures can handle the traffic with aplomb. Your help was (1) not needed and (2) not remotely helpful.
While we are on the subject of the Sci-Fi Channel (Score:1)
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WOW!!! (Score:5, Funny)
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New Behind the Scenes Video (Score:2)
Re:Who cares (Score:4, Funny)
Yep, you nailed it right on the head. It's you.
One of the other networks is broadcasting Three's Company re-runs. You oughta check'em out. You'll like it.
Re:Who cares (Score:1)
Apparently the show has your attention enough to bother responding to this thread. Seriously, dude, if it doesn't interest you, why waste time and bandwidth replying? Why bother even reading the thread? Do you need a life that badly?
I couldn't disagree more.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Think about it. The Cylons are made by humans who then return to destroy us. The US CIA made Bin Laden and built up Middle Eastern dictatorships to fight the USSR and now that has come back to haunt us.
Some of the scenes in the show really brought back hard memories for me of 9/11. I could really connect with the charac
Re:I couldn't disagree more.... (Score:2)
I just rewatched the miniseries with my friend last night. After the Galactica is nuked, they have to seal off some decks, sacrificing 85 people. They get blown out of the ship that really reminded me of those