PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Post by e1ven » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 10:02 PM UTC

PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight
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Post by hyperberry » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 10:57 PM UTC

The Kauffman Foundation + STL IT Entrepreneurs Network (iten.org) hosted an early screening of this film at Washington University in St. Louis a couple months ago. I was fortunate to see it.

The movie offers an inside look at the earliest days of Si Valley, including the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley to form Fairchild Semiconductor. After that they focus mainly on the 70s-80s with a bunch of great anecdotes about Apple/Steve Jobs and Atari.

Worth watching IMO.

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Post by larrys » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 11:04 PM UTC

NY Times review:

http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/arts/television/silicon-val...

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Post by rmason » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 11:12 PM UTC

Saw an early screening in Ann Arbor a few months back. It's definitely worth watching to get an idea of how Silicon Valley was built.

Also worth watching is Steve Blank's secret history of Silicon Valley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

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Post by wallerj77 » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 11:19 PM UTC

looks good - chapter one is already up including some other bonus videos on the PBS site here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/

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Post by hkmurakami » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 11:23 PM UTC

I tried in vain to figure out what time of day this will be airing on the West Coast, since I'm at the office and can't check the show schedule. Hopefully I can get home early enough to record a re-run :(.

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Post by aaronbrethorst » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 11:29 PM UTC

hkmurakami wrote: post #6

I tried in vain to figure out what time of day this will be airing on the West Coast, since I'm at the office and can't check the show schedule. Hopefully I can get home early enough to record a re-run :(.

At least in Seattle, it's airing at 9PM.

If you have Comcast and a DVR, I recommend checking out their What's On app, which lets you remotely schedule stuff for your DVR to record.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whats-on-by-comcast-labs/id5...

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Post by hkmurakami » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 11:31 PM UTC

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #7

hkmurakami wrote: post #6

I tried in vain to figure out what time of day this will be airing on the West Coast, since I'm at the office and can't check the show schedule. Hopefully I can get home early enough to record a re-run :(.

At least in Seattle, it's airing at 9PM. If you have Comcast and a DVR, I recommend checking out their What's On app, which lets you remotely schedule stuff for your DVR to record. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whats-on-by-comcast-labs/id5...

Unfortunately I have Dish, and since they usually don't adjust for time zones, that probably means that it airs at 6pm for me. Thanks for the info; hopefully I can catch the rerun ><

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Post by dhughes » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 11:34 PM UTC

hkmurakami wrote: post #6

I tried in vain to figure out what time of day this will be airing on the West Coast, since I'm at the office and can't check the show schedule. Hopefully I can get home early enough to record a re-run :(.

It's on at 9pm until 10:30pm where I am in Canada but we get Boston PBS but I'm one hour ahead of US Eastern but the show times are shown in my local time by my TV provider.

For the US Eastern time zone 8pm to 9:30pm, if US Pacific time does PBS show at the same time or 8pm locally?

There wasn't that easy? lol

I'm guessing 8pm.

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Post by jmcgough » Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 11:55 PM UTC

is there any way to view it without a television?