I drove the Ford Fiesta and the I-3 was no more rough than an I-4. I also own a Honda Insight, and its 3-cylinder engine is “smoothed” by the electric motor pulsing in sync with the engines vibrations. It’s even smoother than my Civic I4.

> let’s get a 1.0 Ecoboost Focus and put a huge turbo on it

> “you can only record over-the-air TV. That means your choice of DVR-able content is pretty limited.”

It is not illegal for a private user (me) to upload a recorded video from my home to my phone.  I’ve done it many times

In the 90s and early 2000s they had DVRs that could record over-the-air television..... only difference is those recorded NTSC and the Amazon DVR records ATSC.  There’s nothing illegal here

I went to that campus for a career day 20 years ago.

While I’m not a fan of Sprint and am a proponent of net-neutrality, what part of “Sprint is not throttling Skype. Sprint does not single out Skype or any individual content provider in this way.” is a “weak-ass” denial?

Why would TOS have to be standard def video? It was captured on 35mm film (model effects too), so that means it is already stored in high definition. It’s just a simple matter of scanning the negatives & selling the result on HD-Bluray.

> Fox did its best to kill DS9 by broadcasting the last few seasons late at night on Saturday.

DS9 and TNG often ran back-to-back in certain markets.   DS9's Nielsen household ratings were only 1% lower than TNG.   There was some dropoff, but the difference wasn’t that dramatic.

> Most of the masters were lost because Foundation Imaging had to give them to Netter Digital, which lost them when it tanked.

Buffy would have been mostly-okay, if WB had stayed with the 4x3 ratio instead of trying to make it widescreen.  Joss Whedon wrote: “Buffy was shot 4x3 cuz TVs were shaped that way. Widescreen Buffy is nonsense.”

70,000 is a small addition, since the original production cost was (adjusting for inflation) 3.2 million per episode. So the HD remastering increased Paramount’s per episode cost to approximately 3.3 million.

(1) You are misspelling Bluray. (2) Other shows from HBO, Showtime, AMC are only 10 to 15 episodes per season, where TNG is 26 episodes. So you’re getting 175 to 225% more content. OF COURSE that will cost more

>Essentially, for the HD release of Star Trek, all people had to do was scan each episode.

She didn’t “just die”. She knowingly terminated her life. She made a choice, just as my old college friend made a choice when he hung himself. At least my friend’s death only hurt himself. (We were obviously sad to lose him, but it didn’t harm us physically or financially.) HER actions cost ~2400 people thousands of…

You are clearly Not in the majority. Way back before you were even born, people using the internet or usenet in the 1980s developed something called “netiquette” which basically meant be nice to one another. It also included spoiler alerts:

DS9 was syndicated. Your local Fox affiliate may have broadcast it, but the Fox network had absolutely nothing to do with it.

B5 was annoying because they actually saw the HD and widescreen revolution coming and protected the show for it, only for WB not to pay a relatively small amount for a widescreen reference monitor for the CGI outputs. The CG team members will complain at length about that even now if you ask them (I wouldn’t be…

GOOD. Only the original series is relevant.