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Apparently TiVo sent around an email notifying its loyal overpaying customers that it’s shutting down the TiVo Rewards program on May 28th of this year. This won’t matter to the vast majority of TIVo customers, no no, this decision only screws the company’s staunchest word-of-mouth advocates. You know the kind, the alpha geeks obsessed enough with the company’s products to others spend their time zealously recommending it to friends and family in the hopes of spreading the premium DVR experience (and earning some points while they’re at it). Shutting down the program is one thing, but expecting the most loyal segment of TiVo’s cutomer-base to turn in their points before the next series of hardware comes out is beyond lame and decidedly un-TiVo.

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Ariel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday, where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema.

Previously on Movie Gadget Friday, we traveled across war-torn galaxies in the 1978 version of Battlestar Gallatica. Moving forward a few years to 1982, we’ll take a look inside the computational arcade culture of TRON. Saturated with neon suits and Pac-Man blips and bleeps, the sci-fi cult Disney film has achieved pop culture status over the years.

The ENCOM Digitizing Molecular Laser
Using a matter transform sequence and a grid matrix, the ENCOM Digitizing Laser is able to transport physical matter into a digital space. The laser is able to lock on a target and dismantle the molecular structure on a cubic grid. When used for its original intentions, the molecules remain suspended in the laser beam. However, the Master Control Program is able to deviate this sequence into transporting the restructured molecules into a digitized computer game world where TRON resides. The molecules can then be shifted back safely into the physical world by selecting the run mode through the laser system. Surprisingly, the only side effects the laser has on humans is minor disorientation and temporary memory loss. Phew. More after the break.

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The Movie:

The Belzan Forest.

Present day.

1100 hours.

A covert Delta US military force is on a mission to retrieve an enemy scientist. They have to navigate through a dense forest in Chechnya with rebel fighters on the prowl to retrieve their target.

Sound like a tense scenario for an action-packed thriller?

You’re wrong.

This is Bats: Human Harvest: the latest in a long line of Sci-Fi Channel low budget crap with killer animals on the prowl for us humans, now released on home video by Sony.

The original Bats was a fun B-movie romp with Lou Diamond Phillips. This in-name-only sequel isn’t as fun, but it does efficiently follow the template set up by dozens - if not hundreds - of similar movies to premiere on the Sci-Fi Channel or get dumped direct-to-video. First, open with a dramatic kill. Here, we get a bunch of actors who speak English wi…Read the entire review

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Rent It

The Movie:

The Belzan Forest.

Present day.

1100 hours.

A covert Delta US military force is on a mission to retrieve an enemy scientist. They have to navigate through a dense forest in Chechnya with rebel fighters on the prowl to retrieve their target.

Sound like a tense scenario for an action-packed thriller?

You’re wrong.

This is Bats: Human Harvest: the latest in a long line of Sci-Fi Channel low budget crap with killer animals on the prowl for us humans, now released on home video by Sony.

The original Bats was a fun B-movie romp with Lou Diamond Phillips. This in-name-only sequel isn’t as fun, but it does efficiently follow the template set up by dozens - if not hundreds - of similar movies to premiere on the Sci-Fi Channel or get dumped direct-to-video. First, open with a dramatic kill. Here, we get a bunch of actors who speak English wi…Read the entire review

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Rent It

The Movie:

The Belzan Forest.

Present day.

1100 hours.

A covert Delta US military force is on a mission to retrieve an enemy scientist. They have to navigate through a dense forest in Chechnya with rebel fighters on the prowl to retrieve their target.

Sound like a tense scenario for an action-packed thriller?

You’re wrong.

This is Bats: Human Harvest: the latest in a long line of Sci-Fi Channel low budget crap with killer animals on the prowl for us humans, now released on home video by Sony.

The original Bats was a fun B-movie romp with Lou Diamond Phillips. This in-name-only sequel isn’t as fun, but it does efficiently follow the template set up by dozens - if not hundreds - of similar movies to premiere on the Sci-Fi Channel or get dumped direct-to-video. First, open with a dramatic kill. Here, we get a bunch of actors who speak English wi…Read the entire review

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