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Galactica Commentary Podcast Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-isn't-that-clever dept.

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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  1. podcast... by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ok, nothing annoys me more then someone renaming a technology, and then everyone jumping on the bandwagon of this new and great thing! it is called a webcast. as in broadcast combined with the web. there is no (i)pod in this stream whatsoever...

    1. Re:podcast... by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Insightful

      well.. it's not a stream. just a file that gets synched to your mp3 player(be it ipod or whatever). conviently and semi-automatically.

      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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      world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  2. Isn't it great... by anti11es · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't it great when somebody actually get's it...unlike some people.

    1. Re:Isn't it great... by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Oh, I don't think that Sci Fi and Comedy are the only real innovators in Cable, at least in North America. HBO reinvented the miniseries, Discovery-History reinvented the documentary/educational series and later on the whole home and auto improvement genre. ESPN totally redid sports reporting and news as well as creating events like the NFL draft which had gone from a non-event to 3-4 day round the clock event with very high ratings for cable.

      And of course Cinemax created a whole new market for softcore porn at all hours.

  3. Battlestar Galatica icon by minairia · · Score: 3, Insightful
    We've seen lots of BSG stories lately on Slashdot,and with the quality of the show plus forward thinking initiatives on that part of the producers such as this "podcast", there will likely be many more stories to come. So, when will BSG gets it's own icon ?(Instead of that StarTrek TOS looking bumpy headed alien.)

    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.

  4. pushing the boundaries by dean.collins · · Score: 3, Insightful

    this is a great idea, and I do think it's pushing the boundaries. Cheers, Dean

  5. Re:Podcast = download. Doesn't even stream by samdu · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some valid points. However, I think I'd rather see both a streaming AND a downloadable version. Some of us prefer to download the entire thing so we can listen to it whenever. Being downloadable != backward technology, just a different choice.

  6. Re:Podcast = download. Doesn't even stream by node+3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The actual MP3 is here. It's not even on a streaming server; you have to download the whole thing. This is a step backwards to 1999 technology.

    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 streaming audio. Streaming is so Marconi!

    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".

    This is like another modern technology you appear to be unfamiliar with--the DVD. Once you've watched a show, you can watch it again with commentary, that's what this commentary is for. Again, via a podcast this is vastly superior to the DVD method (omigod, imagine if this had been around when B5 was on!).

    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.

    Oh so true. Fortunately the guys at SciFi know this (not terribly surprising that a television network would understand the 'vagaries' of audio channels, lol), and made the file mono.

    There's absolutely no way I haven't just been trolled...