Tag Archives: Video

From Disney to your home digitally – what middle men? Walt Disney plans to start live tests this year on a digital home video distribution system which could bypass conventional rental services, undermine movie piracy, and deliver new profit streams directly to the group’s bottom line. The announcement, from Michael …

SIX, a documentary written by Knoxville forensic psychologist Dr. Helen Smith, washes over the viewer with the power of shaped fiction as it traces, via interviews and court footage, the inexorable, “perfect storm” series of baby steps that led straight down a rural Tennessee road to the 1997 murder of …

Yes, it’s a big week for the Crowe: his band with the odd, self-deprecating name, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, released their new album, Other Ways of Speaking on Artemis yesterday. Other Ways of Speaking was recorded all over the world – from Austin, TX to Sydney, Australia to Baja, …

fx's new John Corbett dramedy.

TiVO as content hub: The San Jose, Calif., company on Tuesday made available a new software upgrade that will allow its TiVo Series2 digital video recorders to tap content stored on a home PC. ….the Home Media Option software will let the TiVo boxes access and distribute content such as …

The truth be known I am emotional and pretty damned squeamish, so when it comes to aspects of life that touch heavily on both – like war – I try pretty hard to concentrate on the macro view and not get too caught up in the micro, where it ALL …

They’ve been talking about this for 20 years, but now real time translation is “good enough“: Most Americans likely have difficulty understanding the broadcasts of Al Jazeera, the Arab news network, but several government agencies now can watch it while simultaneously receiving an English translation of the programming. Virage Inc., …

In today’s NY Times, David Edelstein acclaims Three Kings a great movie, and unambiguously anti-war: I agree with the former point. Obviously, the director David O. Russell meant it to be anti-war, but I came away from the film sickened not by the Gulf War – though I am disgusted …

Been watching the war on TV this afternoon – CNN (left-center), MSNBC (center-center except when that idiot Savage is on), FoxNews (triumphalist-right) – and the pictures are remarkable, driving with troops down the highway right through the middle of Baghdad, the shit-for-brains Iraqi Dis-Information Minister claiming the footage of Americans …

20th Century Fox sued a young video company for appropriating old footage from a documentary THAT WAS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Amazingly, a lower court agreed and ordered the company to pay Fox $1.5. Now the case is before the Supreme Court: Justices were urged to watch a seven-hour World …