Tag Archives: Video

I wandered in to my sister’s living room Sunday night – she had the 29th Annual Lemming’s Choice Awards on the big screen. Tony Danza was playing the trumpet, which brought up more questions than my mind could handle: Why was Tony Danza hosting? Why was he playing the trumpet? …

Great Wall Street Journal story on two screenwriters who got a little more reality than they bargained for touring gangland with the police in East LA: There are a million stories in this town, and any one of them could end up as a screenplay. On a cool night last …

Although media deregulation would appear to have not served the public interest, almost incredibly, the FCC is considering EVEN MORE deregulation. The TV creative community, usually at odds with itself, has banded to fight further deregulation: The coalition combines directors, writers, actors and producers — groups more often known for …

Kazaa’s bobbing and weaving to avoid being dragged into the Grokster-Morpheus lawsuit has been stopped with a body blow: A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that record companies and movie studios can proceed with a lawsuit against the parent company of Kazaa–the most popular online file-swapping service–in the United …

I personally would hold God to a higher standard than a device that digitally records television, but that’s just me: The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is a new convert — to the personal digital video recorder faithful. “My favorite product that I got for Christmas is TiVo,” FCC …

Striking back at the ability of viewers to skip commercials via personal video recorders likeTiVO, a new WB variety show will build the commercials in: A leading television producer and two major advertisers have joined forces to present a live variety show with no commercial interruptions. Instead, the advertising messages …

Mister Sterling Vs. Queens Supreme

A look at Season Two's premiere of The Shield

If you – like I – feel that daytime broadcast TV programming is a stinking morass of titilation, innuendo, mindless psycho-babble, self-debasement, and stupefaction, the nyou might be appalled that Judge Judy has new contract for $25M a year. I don’t really give a hoot – if she can get …

Norwegian teen acquitted of charges associated with posting DVD decryption code on Internet – another legal win for decrypters (see Elcomsoft acquittal): The case had been widely described as a “David vs Goliath” battle, pitting 16-year-old Jon Lech Johansen from a small town south of Oslo against huge corporations and …