The first disc has shipped from Netflix woot. I hope I can finish watching these and The Office Season 3 (being released next week) before the new seasons start the week of the 24th in September. Anything to cure the long wait until Lost starts.

Edit: Episode 1 is up for free (temporarily?) on Xbox Live Marketplace in HD.

I started watching this series because it was available to stream from Netflix. The show is about... an office. It is close to a fake reality show, since they acknowledge the camera and they each have their own sit down which gets edited in to give different opinions on events.

I thought it started off very slow, and it takes a while to get used to the seemingly dead employees. But they do come to life later on, each with their own unique personalities. The boss is the center of the show, the guy that will take over every conversation. He can be very obnoxious but not offensive. His acting is also excellent.  It is a very short six episode season and the basketball episode had me tearing up from laughter.

Since Blockbuster raised their prices on plans that offer in-store exchanges, I decided to try out their biggest competitor, Netflix. They are about the same prices as Blockbuster's current rates, but their website is a huge improvement over BB. Recommendations are much more accurate and being able to stream content is a big advantage.

I decided to try out The Office, a comedy shown on the NBC network. The quality was much better than expected. I use my 40" LCD TV as a second monitor, so I just dragged the window over there and set it to full screen. It is probably not as good as a DVD, but it certainly was good enough. I have yet to try an action movie, so that may make a big difference. It never once stopped to buffer and it took a maximum of maybe 20 seconds to get started. I will probably get my first DVDs tomorrow and unless there is some horrible experience with that, Netflix it is.

So Blondie lost. Judging by what was shown on TV it seemed like she got the food out much faster than Rock's team. I don't understand how Rock could not serve anything in 30 minutes and they still finish at about the same time. Must be some editing. I guess she was not the best at quality control, having some raw stuff sent back by a customer.

I'm still waiting for the Heroes season 1 DVD to be released later this month. I'm pretty sure the season starts next month, only giving a pretty short time to catch up for those who missed it.

Also some new updates to XNA will be released at the end of this year, including online libraries for the 360. Got to get cracking.

Wow, Fox pulled a fast one. Unlike other shows which get 2 hour finales, this show is split up over 2 weeks. The first hour was a lot of filler, visiting Las Vegas, looking back through the episodes, reintroducing some old contestants, etc. Bonnie is definitely my favorite to win. Rock lost me after he blew up during dinner service.