China Says No More Movies And TV Shows About Time Travel
It's no secret that time travel stories in movies and TV are a bit cliche at this point, but that doesn't stop people from using them repeatedly. It's just such an easy plot device. But, don't expect...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable, Viacom Go To Court: Does TWC Need Permission To Let Paying...
We recently noted that the various TV broadcasters were quite upset that Time Warner Cable was trying to promote their content to subscribers. Seem strange? It is. TWC set up an app for subscribers of...
View ArticleTV People Realizing That The Internet Is Global
It's kind of amusing to read this NY Times article about how the producers of Doctor Who had the brilliant idea of showing the latest season in the UK and the US on the same day this season, rather...
View ArticleSmartphones Make People Ignore Commercials Way More Than DVRs
For years, the TV industry has been at war with the DVR, because of their fear that people would just use DVRs to skip over commercials. And, of course, there were the requisite reports about how DVRs...
View ArticleYet Another Company Rigs Up A Silly Technical Setup To Let You Watch...
And here we go again. Peter Kafka has the details of a new company, called Bamboom, which will let people stream broadcast TV to their iPads, and which must be waiting for the inevitable lawsuit. The...
View ArticleFox Decides To Drive Fans To Piracy, Rather Than Giving Legitimate Options
It appears that the Fox Network hasn't learned a damn thing from well over a decade of evidence concerning how you deal with people infringing your works. Rather than providing a legitimate and...
View ArticleWill TV Providers Finally Realize That People Really Are Cutting The Cord --...
This week, my wife and I finally decided to drop our satellite TV service. We almost never watch it. I turn it on maybe once or twice a month, at most. For what we're getting, it's crazy expensive....
View ArticleOf Course: New Fox Delay Means More Unauthorized Downloads Of Fox Shows
Back in July, when the Fox Network announced plans to block or delay many of its popular shows from going online, we predicted this would increase the number of unauthorized downloads. This just...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable CEO Remains In Denial About Cord Cutting
There's growing evidence that hordes of people are cutting the cord from cable TV, with many realizing that it's just way too expensive for what they get -- and compared to alternative options. But,...
View ArticleTV Companies Plan To Make Hulu Suck Even More Making It More Difficult To...
We've talked about how the entertainment industry is really good at killing the golden goose every chance it gets. Any time some new online service actually gets people to move away from infringement,...
View ArticleHulu's Owners Unable To Find Idiots Willing To Overpay To Take Hulu Off Their...
We recently noted that the attempt by Hulu's owners to sell Hulu wasn't going well, mainly because those same owners had made it clear that they hoped to kill Hulu, by limiting how much it could...
View ArticleDear Pro Sports Leagues: Can I Watch The Game Please?
In Mike's latest annual New Year's message about innovation and opportunity, he mentioned how technology is allowing the masses to say "no" to impediments set down by those seeking to control: "The...
View ArticleStudy Confirms: News Networks Owned By SOPA Supporters... Are Ignoring SOPA/PIPA
While the debates about SOPA/PIPA have been raging all over the internet, and appearing regularly in all sorts of mainstream newspapers, they still have been almost entirely absent from TV news. We've...
View ArticleNetwork TV Execs Discover What Pirates Always Knew: Making Stuff Available...
Want to understand just how tone deaf and clueless the legacy entertainment industry players are these days? It appears that network TV execs have just discovered the brilliant idea of using the...
View ArticleSmart TVs: Not Such A Smart Idea
A Smart TV is a TV that includes at least a rudimentary OS, access to web and Internet functions, and streaming content. They have been a hot product category at the last two CES shows, and the rumor...
View ArticleMIPCube Looking For Startups Disrupting The Video Market
For a few years now, we've been attending and/or partnering with Midem, the big music industry conference. The same folks are now also doing MIPCube, a similar conference focusing on TV and video....
View ArticleBoxee Ramps Up Its Fight To Stop The FCC From Letting Cable Companies...
Last month, an interesting fight broke out concerning the cable companies' desire to block out competing set top boxes. The simplified version is that the cable companies asked the FCC for a waiver to...
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It's An Olympics Tradition: How Difficult Can NBC Universal Make It To Enjoy...
Is it really that time again? When NBC screws up its coverage of the Olympics by showing people what it thinks they want to see, rather than what they actually want to see? Every two years, the...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable Is Ready For A 'Conversation' About Rising Costs, But Not...
It's no secret that lots of internet users hate the idea of metered broadband. It adds serious mental transaction costs in using the internet ("will watching this movie actually cost me lots of money...
View ArticleOver 400,000 Homes Have Cut The Cord So Far This Year... But Cord Cutting Is...
For a few years now, we've been hearing pay TV execs (and some of their favorite Wall Street analysts) claiming that cord cutting in the US is some sort of myth, even as the numbers continue to prove...
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