All of you on-the-fencers who wish you were watching Battlestar Galactica, but want to start from the beginning are finally in luck!
Of course, you do need a high-definition television and a cable/satellite provider that has Universal HD as an available channel. But honestly, if you don’t, you may as well just rent the DVDs since anything widescreen is better than 4:3 ratio.
UHD ran a promo this week announcing that Battlestar Galactica could be seen from the beginning starting in January of 2008, which is exactly what I have been looking for. I had been thinking of just purchasing the HD-DVD set of Season 1, but now I’ll just Tivo the UHD episodes instead and save me some bucks.
I’ll keep you guys updated on this and the schedule as the time nears.
UPDATE: First episode is January 5th. Read more on my newer blog post.
If they do it right, the season starts off with a 2-hour miniseries which gets the whole show off the ground. You see the entire Cylon war begin, who is at fault and what state the human race is in right after. It’s deliciously fun.
I just want to re-iterate one more time. This show is one of the best things on TV, a drama as good as Lost, or the Sopranos or any of the top series out there.
Give it a chance…watch the first 5 episodes and if you don’t like it, I’ll find it hard to believe.
Have you seen the unedited version of Razor on DVD yet??!?! Theres a TON of edited out stuf, clips from the very first cylon war, a totally extended Viper / Cylon fight scene with a young Adama we never saw on the TV version. Its RAD!!!
I wanted to get that, but I also was hoping to see it come out on HD-DVD first. But I don’t even know if it ever will.
[...] as I noted a few days ago after seeing a promo for it on Universal HD, my DVR today picked up Episode “33″, which [...]
Widescreen makes me drool. When shows aren’t in HD they make your big widescreen TV look bad =/
Unedited version of Razor on DVD rocks ! recommended