Tag Archives: Video

New interactive digital cable software from Redmond: Microsoft Corp. presented new software Monday to help cable television companies develop digital TV programming and services. The software, called Microsoft TV Foundation Edition, is a new technological platform designed to run on the digital cable boxes that sit atop many television sets. …

Just as the FCC ruling to loosen media ownership rules has caught the public’s attention, the studios are being sued for price fixing by Intertainer: The one thing about the Intertainer service on which everyone can agree is that it was ahead of its time. Founded in 1996 to deliver …

The baffling headlines scream for scrutiny and interpretation: Barry Manilow, fresh from seaside recording with Bette Midler, disoriented, walks into wall, breaks nose. Barbra Streisand, strident free speech advocate, sues for millions over internet photos of beach-cliff estate. Comedic actor Jamie Kennedy, perceives expansion of hilarious white rapper character from …

Henry Jenkins has a perceptive analysis of the “collective intelligence” of the Internet and its bearing on Survivor – really: The Survivor winner is one of the most tightly guarded secrets in the country. Some say that the show’s producer, Mark Burnett, engages in misinformation campaigns, planting misleading information in …

New movie-editing software goes on sale June 14: Apple, based in Cupertino, California, had unveiled the software in April during the National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Las Vegas. Final Cut Pro 4 will sell for about $999 [$911.99 from Amazon!!] Apple, like many personal computer companies such as No. …

The soundtrack for the The Hulk, will be out June 17. Danny Elfman – who is engaged to Bridget Fonda – composed the score. The soundtrack also includes “Set Me Free,” recorded by a post GN’R super group featuring Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots; vocals), Slash (Guns N’ Roses; guitar), …

This seems, uh, overbroad: If your company is thinking about delivering interactive video-on-demand cable-television programming or movies via satellite to consumers, maybe it’d better start thinking about paying royalties to Microsoft first. That’s because Microsoft has just been granted exclusive United States patent rights to a “networked interactive entertainment system” …

An American Doofus in London

In an Esquire magazine interview published today, Phil Spector claims actress Lana Clarkson shot herself in his mansion in February: “She kissed the gun. I have no idea why — (I) never knew her, I never even saw her before that night … I have no idea who she was, …

Yet another AFI film list – this one the 50 top screen heroes and villains: ATTICUS FINCH OF “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD” PROCLAIMED #1 HERO AND DR. HANNIBAL LECTER OF “THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS” DECLARED #1 VILLAIN Indiana Jones, Norman Bates, James Bond, Darth Vader, Rick Blaine, The Wicked …