This is quite an important comment to note.
If you look at the episode list side-by-side with the Wikipedia entry (section with the episode list)... or if you just know all the episodes and the order etc... you'll note two things:
a) They've decided that, shockingly, order does matter! They have gotten it right there.
b) They've decided that the full season shouldn't be aired. While they have gotten the order right they've ditched the last four episodes: 11. "Trash", 12. "The Message", 13. "Heart of Gold", 14. "Objects in Space" (thanks Wikipedia).
I really don't see them building this up to a big four episode finale. Unless the 18th is some public holiday in the US, then they're really not giving it a chance. Give it a Saturday. Get new fans. Make more money (DVD sales). Even split it over a Saturday and Sunday. *shrugs* Oh well.
Maybe this is different in the U.S. but over here in Ireland (and the UK) recording of TV is illegal. It's just not a law that is enforced. It's the same story for recording from the radio. Recording for personal use is considered acceptable.
I can see your point though but you've got to remember that they already have your money if you're recording it from your own TV (or at least they should do!). They're more bothered about people distributing them. Maybe when we get to the stage where we can record at the same quality as DVDs (I realize that's almost possible for some places but we have 1 useless High-Def channel in Europe so I'm talking in that context) then they'll worry about DVD sales and worry about people recording things. That said, before DVDs we had videos and videos you bought were only ever so slightly better than the ones you could record yourself - assuming you had a decent enough TV connection. I'm sure we'll see in the next few years...
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This is quite an important comment to note. If you look at the episode list side-by-side with the Wikipedia entry (section with the episode list) ... or if you just know all the episodes and the order etc ... you'll note two things:
a) They've decided that, shockingly, order does matter! They have gotten it right there.
b) They've decided that the full season shouldn't be aired. While they have gotten the order right they've ditched the last four episodes: 11. "Trash", 12. "The Message", 13. "Heart of Gold", 14. "Objects in Space" (thanks Wikipedia).
I really don't see them building this up to a big four episode finale. Unless the 18th is some public holiday in the US, then they're really not giving it a chance. Give it a Saturday. Get new fans. Make more money (DVD sales). Even split it over a Saturday and Sunday. *shrugs* Oh well.
Maybe this is different in the U.S. but over here in Ireland (and the UK) recording of TV is illegal. It's just not a law that is enforced. It's the same story for recording from the radio. Recording for personal use is considered acceptable. I can see your point though but you've got to remember that they already have your money if you're recording it from your own TV (or at least they should do!). They're more bothered about people distributing them. Maybe when we get to the stage where we can record at the same quality as DVDs (I realize that's almost possible for some places but we have 1 useless High-Def channel in Europe so I'm talking in that context) then they'll worry about DVD sales and worry about people recording things. That said, before DVDs we had videos and videos you bought were only ever so slightly better than the ones you could record yourself - assuming you had a decent enough TV connection. I'm sure we'll see in the next few years...