What they don't show on TV

Why is it that on CSI, or whatever other cop show is hot these days, you never see the people fighting with their computers, or having printer issues? There are never any IT guys in jeans and black band t-shirts under their desks, trying to resolve a server or network issue. All their computer equipment functions perfectly the first time around, and they never ever have compatibility problems with the evidence. ("I'm sorry, the suspect uses a Mac and we have PCs, which means we can't open that file...")

The TeeVee police also fight over jurisdiction the wrong way. On TV the police want to take the case, and are prepared to fight to keep it. In real life, the police spend a lot of energy trying to get rid of cases they don't want: "Sorry, not our jurisdiction. That's for the SPVM/SQ/[insert other police service here]." Budgets and personnel constraints means that everyone tries to pass the buck to someone else.

Art reflecting the way it would really like life to be.

Dear flist

Dear flist,

My Google Fu has failed me. I therefore appeal to you, who are way better at this sort of thing than I. I have been trying, without success, to get my hot little hands on the DVDs of Re:Genesis, starring Peter Outerbridge and Conrad Pla (among many others).

Thus far, it looks as though Season 1 was produced only for Region 2, and may even have been discontinued. There are at least five seasons of this baby, and I would really love to have it.

Before you tell me to go download it off BitTorrent, or whatever, allow me to re-iterate that my downloading skills are made of weapons-grade fail. My poor old computer wants nothing to do with downloading anything bigger than a small .pdf (and even then it takes forever and the computer chokes 50% of the time). My computer won't even play YouTube videos. So.

Ideas? Help? Anyone? Bueller?

Thanks!