Cave of Forgotten Dreams
This week is a good one for 3D fans, in theaters Martin Scorsese's Hugo is racking up the acclaims for its integration of effects and story, while at home viewers can finally experience Werner Herzog's trek into the Chauvet Caves of South France, exposing the oldest known human drawings. The entire documentary is filmed in 3D to help bring the shape and depth of the cave paintings alive, and by all accounts it's effective. Since you're probably not on the (very short list) of people who will ever be allowed access to the cave and its delicate relics, this is your best shot at taking a step 35,000 years into the past at an entirely different era of humankind. Check out the trailer after the break, but after seeing this one in theaters earlier this year we can definitely say 3D is the only way to watch.
(November 29th, $18.99 on Amazon)
College Football
The last week of the college football season means everything comes down to these games to decide conference championships and who goes on to which bowl games. From the Big East being decided by the result of West Virginia vs. South Florida, to a couple of brand new conference championship games for the Pac-12 and Big Ten, to the always classic ACC and SEC football championships, and even a few rivalry games like Baylor/Texas and Oklahoma/Oklahoma State -- it's all here. No matter which team you root for there will be something at stake this weekend, so arrange your schedule accordingly.
The Take
After jumping into the original programming game earlier this year with Moby Dick, Encore is ready to push The Take, a British crime drama. Tom Hardy (Inception, Bronson, The Dark Knight Rises) stars as Freddie Jackson, an ex-con fresh out of prison who is trying to take over London's underworld with the help of the rest of his similarly crooked family. As you can tell by the name, the theme here is that everyone and everything is available for a price, we're willing to spend an hour of our time and see if this is a series worth watching thanks to its strong cast, check out a quick trailer embedded after the break.
(December 2nd, Encore, 9PM)
Blu-ray Games
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D)
- 30 Minutes or Less
- Our Idiot Brother
- Another Earth
- Tucker Dale vs. Evil
- The Smurfs (3D)
- The Art of Getting By
- Smallville: The Complete Tenth Season
- Sly Cooper Trilogy (PS3)
Monday
- The Closer (winter premiere), TNT, 9PM
- Rizzoli Isles (winter premiere), TNT, 10PM
- House (fall finale), Fox, 9PM
- Bored To Death (season finale), HBO, 9PM
- The Sing-Off (season finale), NBC, 8PM
- Urban Legends (season finale), Syfy, 11, 11:30 11:59PM
- You Deserve It, ABC, 9PM
- Giants/Saints Monday Night Football, ESPN, 8:30PM
- Terra Nova, Fox, 8PM
- WWE Raw, USA, 9PM
- American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior, Discovery, 9PM
- Enlightened, HBO, 9:30PM
- Rock Center with Brian Williams, NBC, 10PM
- American Guns, Discovery, 10PM
Tuesday
- Victoria's Secret Fall Fashion Show (special presentation), CBS, 10PM
- Ringer (fall finale), CW, 9PM
- Scott Turow's Innocent (special presentation), TNT, 9PM
- Sons of Anarchy (season finale part 1), FX, 10PM
- Auction Hunters, Spike TV (season finale), 10PM
- Last Man Standing, ABC, 8PM
- Glee, Fox, 8PM
- 90210, CW, 8PM
- Man Up!, ABC, 8:30PM
- New Girl, Fox, 9PM
- Raising Hope, Fox, 9:30PM
- Knights of Mayhem, National Geographic, 9PM
- Sanctuary, Syfy, 10PM
- Parenthood, NBC, 10PM
- Covert Affairs, USA, 10PM
- Flashpoint, Ion, 10PM
- Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan, G4, 10PM
Wednesday
- I Hate My Teenage Daughter (series premiere), Fox, 9:30PM
- Blue Mountain State (season finale), Spike, 11PM
- Mythbusters (fall finale), Discovery, 9PM
- Whitechapel (season finale), BBCA, 10PM
- Christmas in Rockefeller Center 2011 (special presentation), NBC, 8PM
- Grammy Nominations Concert Live!, (special presentation), CBS, 10PM
- Ricochet (special presentation), TNT, 9PM
- West Virginia/South Florida college football, ESPN ESPN 3D, 7PM
- Survivor, CBS, 8PM
- The X-Factor, Fox, 8PM
- Inside The NFL, Showtime, 9PM
- Harry's Law, NBC, 9PM
- Nova, PBS, 9PM
- Rocket City Rednecks, National Geographic, 9 9:30PM
- Psych, USA, 10PM
- The Real World, MTV, 10PM
- Law Order SVU, NBC, 10PM
- The Ultimate Fighter, Spike, 10PM
- American Horror Story, FX, 10PM
Thursday
- Weed Wars (series premiere), Discovery, 10PM
- Big Shrimpin', History, 10PM
- Eagles/Seahawks Thursday Night Football, NFL Network, 8PM
- Community, NBC, 8PM
- The X-Factor, Fox, 8PM
- Parks Recreation, NBC, 8:30PM
- Bones, Fox, 9PM
- The Office, NBC, 9PM
- Less Than Kind, DirecTV 101, 9PM
- Call Me Fitz, DirecTV 101, 9:30PM
- Whitney, NBC, 9:30PM
- Burn Notice, USA, 10PM
- Prime Suspect, NBC, 10PM
- It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, FX, 10PM
- Beavis Butt-head, MTV, 10PM
- Good Vibes, MTV, 10:30PM
- The League, FX, 10:30PM
- Gigolos, Showtime, 11PM
Friday
- Pac-12 College Football Championship: Oregon/UCLA, Fox, 7:30PM
- MAC College Football Championship: Northern Illinois/Ohio, ESPN2, 6PM
- The Take (part 1 of 4, series premiere), Encore, 9PM
- Game of Your Life (special presentation), NBC, 8PM
- Nikita (fall finale), CW, 8PM
- Supernatural (fall finale), CW, 9PM
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Cartoon Network, 8PM
- House of Payne, TBS, 9 9:30PM
- Sanctuary, Syfy, 10PM
- Onion News Network, IFC, 10PM
- Boss, Starz, 10PM
- X-Men Anime, G4, 11PM
Saturday
- The Ultimate Fighter (season finale), Spike, 8PM
- Conference USA College Football Championship Game: Southern Miss/Houston, ABC, 11AM
- SEC College Football Championship Game: Georgia/LSU, CBS, 3PM
- ACC College Football Championship: Clemson/Virginia Tech, ESPN ESPN 3D, 7PM
- Big Ten College Football Championship: Michigan State/Wisconsin, Fox, 7:30PM
- Oklahoma/Oklahoma State college football, ABC, 7PM
- Texas/Baylor college football, ESPN, 2:30PM
- Primeval, BBCA, 9PM
- Saturday Night Live: Steve Buscemi / The Black Keys, NBC, 11:30PM
Sunday
- Neverland (part 1 of 2), Syfy, 9PM
- Hung (season finale), HBO, 10PM
- Around The World In 80 Ways (season finale), History, 11PM
- Lions/Saints football, NBC, 8:15PM
- 60 Minutes, CBS, 7PM
- The Cleveland Show, Fox, 7:30PM
- The Simpsons, Fox, 8PM
- Once Upon A Time, ABC, 8PM
- The Amazing Race, CBS, 8PM
- Allen Gregory, Fox, 8:30PM
- Family Guy, Fox, 9PM
- Leverage, TNT, 9PM
- Dexter, Showtime, 9PM
- Desperate Housewives, ABC, 9PM
- The Good Wife, CBS, 9PM
- Boardwalk Empire, HBO, 9PM
- The Cleveland Show, Fox, 9:30PM
- Hell on Wheels, AMC, 10PM
- Homeland, Showtime, 10PM
- CSI: Miami, CBS, 10PM
- Pan Am, ABC, 10PM
Article source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/28/must-see-hdtv-november-28th-december-4th/
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I got my Kindle Fire last week. I plan to keep my older keyboard Kindle for reading books - eInk and ePaper are still the best way to read eBooks. The main reason I bought the Fire was for viewing movies. I have an Amazon Prime subscription which allows me to stream certain movies and TV shows, but I couldn't help wondering if adding Netflix streaming movies to the mix would be worth the extra $7.99/month. Since Netflix offers a 1-month free trial, I figured what the hay, might as well try it, I've got nothing to lose.
The first thing I did was download the free Netflix app from the Amazon Appstore. I then signed up for a Netflix account. The signup process was very easy, and I was surprised that during the signup, they tell you explicitly how to cancel your membership if you decide that the service isn't for you. It can be done online (no arguing with someone on the phone), and they tell you exactly how to go about it.
Immediately after signing up, I loaded the Netflix app on my Kindle and logged in to the account that I just created. I found a couple of movies that interested me and added them to my Instant Queue. I tapped on the movie that I wanted to watch first, and a box popped up with a description of the film and an image of the movie's package with a "play" button in the middle. I tapped the "play" button, and voila! Instant streaming video! Excellent quality video, I might add, with no hesitating or obvious buffering during the playback.
Now the question became, do I need Netflix, or is Amazon Prime Instant Video enough? I checked several titles, including the two that I selected first, and it appears that there are a lot of titles that Amazon either doesn't have, or they're not free with Amazon Prime. I Spy (the Eddie Murphy/Owen Wilson version) is free at Amazon Prime, but Amazon doesn't even offer Diary of a Nymphomaniac. I found a number of titles (especially foreign films) that Netflix offers but Amazon Prime doesn't.
Also, with Amazon Prime you have to pay $79.00 up front, where with Netflix you only have to shell out $7.99 at a time. That's pretty cheap when you consider that you can watch their movies and TV shows all day, every day if you want.
I think I'm probably going to keep Netflix, but if I change my mind I can easily cancel on December 20 (I marked my calendar so I won't forget). Give it a try! You've got nothing to lose!
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