Archive for the 'Entertainment' Category
Mobile DTV Brings TV to Mobile Devices 15 Feb 2010
I remember the days of the portable TVs, with their little 1- or 2-inch CRT screens and how bad they were, so it’ll be interesting to see how this new generation of mobile TV devices get on and whether there is actually demand out there.
Will E-Books Mean Cheaper Textbooks? 11 Feb 2010
So I’m reading an article over at CNN where ten tech luminaries (their words) are commenting on the future of reading and I stumble across this from author Jeannette Walls: I think electronic readers and tablets are going to have a huge impact on the textbook business. Some textbooks cost more than $100. What student [...]
Borderless Media 24 Jul 2009
The film, TV and music industries need to get their act in gear and realise media can no longer be divided by borders. Take, for example, the video I posted about yesterday about the Okinawa Churaumi aquarium. The author has been very careful to put links to the band site for the music he used. [...]
Red Dwarf Review 14 Apr 2009
I agree with the summation of Red Dwarf‘s return to the small screen from Graeme McMillan over at io9. I’m a fan of the series, not a huge fan, but I’ve seen most of the episodes and I was hoping this would spell a return after some poor later series. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like [...]
Discovering New Music 25 Nov 2007
There’s an interesting article on the San Francisco Chronicle site about how TV adverts can launch a song, it also mentions the shrinking options for launching a new band into the limelight: Further complicating the matter is a decline in overall band exposure. For the most part, radio has been unwilling to break the Top [...]
The Shelf Life of Music 11 Oct 2007
Does anyone else find it a bit odd that when you first hear a song, while it may not strike a chord immediately, once you like a song you can listen to a song over and over and it still sounds good and, for want of a better word, energises you, then slowly it becomes [...]
Finding Similar Items 19 Sep 2007
A lot of places, mainly online stores, now have the ‘if you like this you may like…’ or ‘customers who bought this also bought…’ features to help (and encourage) you to find similar items you might like. Unfortunately they’re often not very good, people buy a lot of wild things on one order so you [...]
Stationless TV 15 Sep 2007
It has started. I think more TV shows will end up going out to audiences in ways like, maybe establish and audience on a regular channel, then split to online media. Some will eventually start away from TV stations, maybe a few websites will become their own TV channels or listings sites, so the wheat [...]
Irony 14 May 2007
Definition: Executives of a TV network who are unhappy about a parody of a TV show that employs parody and satire for much of it’s humour.
The Right to Royalties 30 Apr 2007
I’m somewhat torn by the current copyright laws. It does seem strange that a performer doesn’t get the same coverage as songwriters and composers, after all, it is they that breath life into the words and music, they the public fall in love with. You don’t see actors getting less rights than writers and directors. [...]