Autism: is TV the culprit?
New report points to television being a cause behind the growth of autism in the US (it has gone, apparently, from one in 2500 children in the late ’70s to one in 166 today).
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TV shows to fight (Neilsen Net) ratings wars
This one’s a little beyond my simple mind, but I get the gist. NewTeeVee delves in a possible near future for the television and movie industries, taking recent predictions of an exponentially expanding online video market and converting it into a new currency for TV producers:
Using today’s encoding techniques, an hour of video content equates [...]
XBox to become your TV and cinema?
You can understand why the television and movie industries are in such a fluff. Their businesses are changing in front of their very eyes, and the film and TV execs are not necessarily in control of their own destinies.For example, who would have imagined five years ago that games consoles could eventually outstrip cable and [...]
Studio employee seeds P2P networks with new TV show
AllYourTV claims to have an interview with a Warner Brothers Television employee, who admits to leaking episodes of a major new series for the network onto P2P and BitTorrent sites.
The nameless employee uploaded with files of ‘Pushing Daises’ with help from a ‘neighbour’s kid’, who got ’some kind of uploading credit’ in return for helping [...]
TV advertising should return to the 50s
David Kiley at BusinessWeek is sick of the quality of television commercials, and argues that the broadcasters are becoming ever more desperate in their ploys to make you watch ads. I think I agree: it may be a result of old age, but I seem to remember better TV advertising in the 80s and 90s [...]
How we all learned to stop doubting and love our TVs
I lost a Saturday afternoon recently, having lazily turned the TV on to be greeted by the opening credits to Network. The next two hours vanished: I was only 13 when the Sidney Lumet film was released, and had somehow managed to miss it in the intervening 31 years.
It is one of the most powerful [...]
Joost: one million and counting
Joost – The new way of watching free, full-screen, high-quality TV on the internet
And we are about to go live on the service. Dead excited. Oh, I know that there are new ways of delivering video springing up from every corner. But there’s something about Joost that’s right – maybe it’s the ‘oooh, it’s just [...]
ABC launches Hi-Def streaming
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Now this is what we needed: hardcore streaming. You’ll need to download a player (and no, you won’t be able to skip the ads), but the new ABC.com HD shows could be just what the Gadget Doctor ordered.
We’ve been thinking about HD video ourselves, partly inspired by the new Hi-Def vidcasts from the [...]