Tag Archives: Video

For at least the last five years, whenever my father-in-law and I start talking about computers and-or music, he always comes around to a statement something like this: why isn’t there a service where I can pick any song I want and have them make a CD for me? If …

Fortune looks at legality of TV show swapping: TiVo is a leading brand of personal video recorder (PVR) that saves shows to hard drives instead of cassettes. (Ironically, TiVo counts several of the plaintiffs in the SONICblue suit, like NBC and CBS, among its investors.) Consumers love TiVos for the …

PBS’ Media Matters show is featuring blogs in the episode debuting January 16, with two of our very own Blogcritics, Glenn Reynolds and Oliver Willis, securing heavy face time. Check out the cool video trailer for the show here, and BOW DOWN BEFORE THE ASSEMBLED MIGHT OF G AND O! …

Season Two of U.S.A.'s big summer hit begins - in January!

Oscar-winning cameraman Hall succumbs to cancer at 76: the Oscar-winning cinematographer[‘s] … bold color experiments enriched such films as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “American Beauty” and 2002’s “Road to Perdition”… …An expert in the use of light, Hall filmed nearly three dozen movies in a career that stretched …

Image is everything in Hollywood, and one’s mate is among one’s most important accessories. Stars would never be as coldly calculating as this NY Post column suggests, would they? MICHAEL Douglas did it. So did Heidi Klum and J.Lo. We’re talking, of course, about romantic upgrades, a bona fide celebrity …

A Swedish couple has put together a vast repository of annotated Madonna pics in chronological order on their site, MadonnaShots. From baby shots in 1958, through school, first nudes, early career, and the image wanderings of the chameleon once stardom struck in the early ’80s, Madonna has never been camera-shy. …

Yesterday you could have turned your TV on at 1pm and happily left it on broadcast TV until the 10pm news, with Fox being the big winner. CBS had the early NFL playoff game yesterday between the Browns and the Steelers, Fox the late game between the 49ers and Giants; …

Movies had an amazing year in the theater and in the home as DVDs had another record year: A preliminary survey of the home video industry shows that DVD sales saw a 65% increase to an estimated total of $8.9 billion last year, compared with $5.4 billion in 2001. Although …

Jane Black in Business Week on digital privacy: entertainment industry’s honchos will once again journey to Capitol Hill when Congress convenes a new session later this month to ask lawmakers and the Federal Communications Commission for more protection. However, if Hollywood has its way, consumer privacy — not piracy — …