Tag Archives: Video

Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee members wonder why the price of cable TV has risen 50% since deregulation: Key members of a Senate Committee lashed out at the cable television industry yesterday for repeatedly raising rates on service that effectively forces consumers to subscribe to dozens of channels they …

Justin Timberlake has been signed as a special correspondent by Turner Sports: singer will report from several sports events for TNT, including the NBA playoffs, NASCAR races and the PGA championship. For TBS, he’ll appear at major league baseball games and Big 12 and Pac-10 college football games. “We are …

Brian, check it out: First Scene Film & Music Expo provides a premier platform for emerging filmmakers, and other artists to debut their projects while giving influential members of the New York film/Arts community a first look at exceptional new work. First Scene will commence on May 21st at Pressure, …

CNN interview with one of the four college students sued by the RIAA for contributory copyright infringement: BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: A story we talked about yesterday want to pick up again today. The recording industry opening up a new front in its fight against file sharing over the Internet. …

Via, Glenn Reynolds, Sonic Foundry, maker of our beloved Acid music creation and Vegas video editing software, has been swallowed up by Sony: Sony Pictures Digital and Sonic Foundry®, Inc. announced today Sony Pictures Digital has struck an agreement to purchase all of Sonic Foundry’s desktop software products and related …

Remember Wendy and Lisa from Purple Rain, all tarted up and ready to slam in Prince’s Revolution? They don’t look much like that anymore, and they aren’t rock stars anymore either, but they are making a good living from music, as is Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh: Talk about crossover acts. Melvoin, …

Gilligan’s Island theme composer George Wyle dies at 87: Wyle also wrote the Christmas classic “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and more than 400 other songs. He died Friday of leukemia at the Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center in Tarzana, his son Jerry Weissman said. “The Ballad of Gilligan’s …

The Coral meet The Wicker Man

Ukraine is the Blackbeard of copyright violators: The United States on Thursday issued its annual list of countries with the worst record of protecting copyright material and other intellectual property, again identifying Ukraine as the worst culprit. [worse than the 98% music CD piracy rate of Peru?] The U.S. Trade …

The first DVD for digital high-definition computer and television monitors: The two-disc DVD contains one standard DVD of hit 1991 Schwarzenegger movie, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” for playback in a normal DVD player. The second disc, however, contains a high-definition version of the movie to be played on a computer …