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Doctor.… who?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Ear­lier this week the first episode of the new Doc­tor Who series, by the BBC, was leaked onto the inter­net. I was able to obtain a copy and give it a quick whirl¹. I have to say that I’ve not enjoyed watched the Doc­tor so much since Tom Baker played him and while I still miss that mas­sive scarf; the new Doctor’s look suits very well. At least from what one can tell in a ~40 minute episode, Mr. Eccle­ston seems to have cap­tured that play­fully annoy­ing essence which is so esste­nial to por­tray­ing the Doc­tor prop­erly. I look for­ward to see­ing more of this new sea­son and hope that it will be quickly released to DVD (to make it eas­ier to get here in the States).

¹ Actu­ally, it wasn’t all that quick as I was try­ing to fig­ure a way to make the AVI file into a SVCD. I came really close with Tovid but the qual­ity wasn’t all that great to begin with and the video was totally cor­rupted towards the end. Still, I did get a lot closer with Tovid’s CLI tools than with Tovid GUI, so maybe with some more work I can fig­ure this out. That’d be great as I’d really like to burn some quick&dirty SVCDs using CD-RWs to watch var­i­ous down­loads on my real TV rather than my PC. What can I say, the futon is way more com­fort­able than my desk chair.

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