Tired of the high prices of cable or satellite television? Wish you could just get all your content via the Internet? In this week's show, we take a look at how to "cut the cable" and get all your video content through other methods. What sources are available? How much bandwidth will you need? Should you get a media PC or just get devices to supplement what you already have? How do you get the content from the Net to your television? Check out this week's episode and find out!

RC #42: Cutting the Cable
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After a brief discussion of G.I. Joe, Avatar, and some other films, Erik, Andrew, Ned, and Ren take a spoiler-free look at District 9 and some past movies and shows about aliens living among us.

RC #41: Aliens Among Us
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Are we finally getting a Halo movie? Will Joss Whedon get full creative control over Dollhouse? Will the next season of 24 be its last? Is Redbox undermining the DVD market?

Find out on this week's episode of RandomChatter!

RC #40: Morgan, We Love You!
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Erik and Andrew look back at the movies and television covered at Comic Con, and Brian drops in for a few minutes.

This week on RandomChatter:

Did you miss FOX's latest premature cancellation, Virtuality? Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek) created a great new series, and true to form, FOX shot it down before it ever had a chance to get off the ground. You can still check it out on Hulu, and Erik & Andrew discuss why you should. They then talk about Ron Moore's other upcoming series, the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica. They wrap up with a quick update on Andrew's trip to China and the radical differences in the box office over there.

RC #38: Virtuality, Caprica, and Ron Moore
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This week we start out with some nice, peaceful good news, such as which television series are getting renewed. Dollhouse will be back! Woohoo! (Note: Terminator: TSCC has been canceled, but we recorded this weeks ago, before it was announced.)

Then we get into some... well, not-so-peaceful discussion. See, they're releasing more and more films in IMAX, and there seem to be more IMAX theaters popping up everywhere, especially in the AMC and Regal theater chains. However, the screens aren't any bigger than normal screens.

Erik takes one side of the debate. Ned takes the other. The gloves come off, and Andrew has to drop by to settle the argument. Check it out!

RC #37: The IMAX Experience...?
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When you think of shows that were canceled before their prime, some obvious mentions come up, such as Firefly and Arrested Development. But what other unforgivable sins have the networks committed?

RC #36: Unforgivable Cancellations
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Brian gets his buttons pushed, and then later in the episode he pushes back at Erik. Ned, in the meantime, just sits in the background instigating both sides. Ned: 1. Brian: 0. Erik: 0.

After discussing some television, including the now-infamous "missing" Dollhouse episode, the three of us talk about some of the recent movie rewrites resulting from scripts being leaked online. Are the writers/studios handling the issue appropriately, or are they being arrogant buttheads?

And finally, in Ned's rant this week, we discuss 10-year-olds' support of homosexuals coming out.

We look forward to your comments upon this episode. :)

RC #35: Pushing Buttons
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Today's episode is brought to you by the word "Turgid."

We're running without show prep this week, so Ned and Erik ramble on about unemployment, the infamous "Fox Wolverine Review Firing," piracy, and other topics.

RC #34: Turgid!
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SEX! That's right, this week's RandomChatter episode is all about sex. Sex in film, rather. There seems to be no more controversial topic in film than sex. Why is it the MPAA is stricter on sex than on violence? Why is it female nudity is okay but male nudity isn't? Why is there such a double-standard for homosexuality in film?

[This week's show is technically "safe for work," as there's nothing particularly explicit, but we do discuss a lot of mature themes (and we discuss them maturely), so if you're at work, school, or in public, you may want to use headphones this week.]

RC #33: SEX!
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