Tag Archives: Video

Malaysian government tries to help it’s CD and DVD industries help themselves with some tough love: This week, Deputy Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk S Subramaniam told buyers to quit spending – temporarily, at least – to force the industry to reduce prices. Subramaniam’s statement, reported by the …

FCC Chariman Powell and Sen. Byron Dorgan, who opposes the media ownership rule changes the FCC voted in yesterday, on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer: TERENCE SMITH: To explain the new ownership rules, we’re joined by the commission’s chairman, Michael Powell. Commissioner Powell, welcome to the broadcast. Would you make …

Six Feet Under's season finale reflected both the highs and lows of its third year.

When we talked about the case a couple of months ago, it seemed pretty cut and dried to me: the company used material in the public domain and made something new out of it. That’s what the public domain is FOR. Fortunately, the Supreme Court agreed 8-0: The Supreme Court …

“Hello MTV,” the name of new mobile phone service: Music video channel MTV is to venture into the world of mobile phone service provision in Sweden. Beginning this month, MTV Europe is to offer pre-paid mobile services in the Scandinavian country as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) over Telia …

CSPAN2’s Book TV sees itself as sober nonfiction book talk each weekend from 8am Saturday to 8am Monday – it is rare that participants nearly come to blows. But this little tiff proves the left-right gulf hasn’t closed any since the war ended: Unlike Ernest Hemingway’s encounter with poet Wallace …

George Ziemann with some interesting history: Eastman Kodak agreed to sell filmstock only to authorised producers. The MPPC took over all but one of America’s film distributors. The courts upheld Edison’s claims that most of the film cameras in use infringed his patents. Then Edison got too pushy. The MPPC …

The 1973 concert film Wattstax returns for a limited engagement theatrical run staring June 6 with original ending restored: On August 20, 1972, more than 100,000 people attended what came to be known as “the black Woodstock.” The popular appeal and broad diversity of the attending Stax Records artists ensured …

Bootleggers contributed mightily to new Led Zeppelin DVD release: When ex-Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page lamented “it’s a real shame that … there isn’t enough live footage of us,” he wasn’t being completely candid. PAGE, WHO WAS speaking to me in 1998, knew full well just how much footage there …

Hardly, with at least three paid moles for Saddam: On Tuesday, when al Jazeera fired its director general, Mohammed Jassem al-Ali, the world was reminded once again of one significant reason–Saddam Hussein’s regime infiltrated media outlets throughout the region, including al Jazeera. According to a dispatch from Agence France Presse, …