Screen Grabs: Engadget makes its prime time TV debut on XIII

Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dot com . It’s been a long time coming but after years of cataloging various gadgets in TV and movies, we finally got our own starring role on the small screen. Our HTML code stood in for the usual computer gibberish pretending to be a dangerous hacking program on an episode of the French / Canadian TV series XIII and was spotted by a keen-eyed (and HDTV-equipped) reader as seen above. US viewers might recognize the title since it was also the source of a videogame in 2003 and a miniseries that aired on NBC in 2009; in its current iteration, the tale of a conspiracy in the US government airs strictly outside our borders. A clip of the scene is included after the break, check for the “5 years old, highly encrypted source code” at about 1:29. Nice job Prodigy Pictures, but next time we expect a speaking role, two scenes with co-star Aisha Tyler , a trailer and a bowl of M&Ms — but only the green ones. Have your people talk to our people, we’ve been looking for a new career . [Thanks, Dennis] Gallery: Engadget on XIII Continue reading Screen Grabs: Engadget makes its prime time TV debut on XIII Screen Grabs: Engadget makes its prime time TV debut on XIII originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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