Entertainment
SLINGERS looks interesting. Well, to me as a sci-fi and heist movie/TV show nerd, at least.
David Cross and Will Arnett reunite for new UK series. Yeah, getting my hands on this as I write.
V returns March 30; ABC delays mid-season schedule to apply lipstick to the pigs
General Zod is apparently available for weddings. WTF?
Neil Patrick Harris is Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman. Kinda funny.
Joss Whedon comes clean about why DOLLHOUSE failed. The doomed series returns tonight. I'll probably watch since I doubt I'll have anything better to do.
Video Games
MAX PAYNE 3 delayed until late next year. As a fan of the other two games in the series, I was looking forward to this, but don't really care too much about the delay. I'm more psyched for stuff like DEAD RISING 2, SPLINTER CELL: CONVICTION, BIOSHOCK 2, HEAVY RAIN, and ALAN WAKE.
Shock: Treyarch's CALL OF DUTY set in the past again. Boring. Boooooooring.
Redbox closer to rolling out $2 game rentals. I doubt the games industry will try to fight this like the idiot movie studios.
Business
How Hollywood plans to keep prices up as movies go online. Nothing surprising. Even with digital download the markup is ridiculous, especially once you factor in the removal of most of the costs associated with physical media: the cost of manufacturing, packaging, storing, transporting, etc. There's a lot of money to be made with all of that. Even if it were to go away, they don't want to lose that money. For example
It's pure greed. Plus, let's face it, as much as a lot of people would like to see physical media fade away and digital downloads replace them, it won't happen as long as bandwidth caps exist. Speaking of which...
"Bandwidth hogs" join unicorns in realm of mythical creatures. Yeah, I don't buy into the ISPs fairy tales either. With cable companies it's simply an anti-competitive move designed to force you to use their on-demand services, rather than a competitor's like streaming Netflix. It also keeps their (far more inexpensive than they claim) bandwidth and equipment upgrade costs down. Giving less and charging more.
Will movie streaming destroy piracy? Nah. Streaming sucks for anything but short clips.
Some speculation on Comcast buying NBC...
Comcast buys NBC, clouding online TV’s future
Why a Comcast/NBC merger is bad news
Let's not forget about the music biz...
Time for musicians to take charge: stop waiting for others to fix the music business. The day of record labels is done my friends.
Google CEO says not to blame for news media woes. I use the net for my news. Screw newspapers.
SLINGERS looks interesting. Well, to me as a sci-fi and heist movie/TV show nerd, at least.
David Cross and Will Arnett reunite for new UK series. Yeah, getting my hands on this as I write.
V returns March 30; ABC delays mid-season schedule to apply lipstick to the pigs
General Zod is apparently available for weddings. WTF?
Neil Patrick Harris is Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman. Kinda funny.
Joss Whedon comes clean about why DOLLHOUSE failed. The doomed series returns tonight. I'll probably watch since I doubt I'll have anything better to do.
Video Games
MAX PAYNE 3 delayed until late next year. As a fan of the other two games in the series, I was looking forward to this, but don't really care too much about the delay. I'm more psyched for stuff like DEAD RISING 2, SPLINTER CELL: CONVICTION, BIOSHOCK 2, HEAVY RAIN, and ALAN WAKE.
Shock: Treyarch's CALL OF DUTY set in the past again. Boring. Boooooooring.
Redbox closer to rolling out $2 game rentals. I doubt the games industry will try to fight this like the idiot movie studios.
Business
How Hollywood plans to keep prices up as movies go online. Nothing surprising. Even with digital download the markup is ridiculous, especially once you factor in the removal of most of the costs associated with physical media: the cost of manufacturing, packaging, storing, transporting, etc. There's a lot of money to be made with all of that. Even if it were to go away, they don't want to lose that money. For example
With the online movie transition, studios have done a better job at keeping prices high. Look at the recent Star Trek film. On Amazon, the basic DVD goes for $14.99 and the Blu-ray is $19.99. On iTunes, it's farcheaperexactly the same: $14.99 to buy in standard definition, $19.99 in high-def. In fact, you could argue that you're actually paying the same amount of money in return for less on iTunes—the film is more heavily compressed and comes with only limited extras.
It's pure greed. Plus, let's face it, as much as a lot of people would like to see physical media fade away and digital downloads replace them, it won't happen as long as bandwidth caps exist. Speaking of which...
"Bandwidth hogs" join unicorns in realm of mythical creatures. Yeah, I don't buy into the ISPs fairy tales either. With cable companies it's simply an anti-competitive move designed to force you to use their on-demand services, rather than a competitor's like streaming Netflix. It also keeps their (far more inexpensive than they claim) bandwidth and equipment upgrade costs down. Giving less and charging more.
Will movie streaming destroy piracy? Nah. Streaming sucks for anything but short clips.
Some speculation on Comcast buying NBC...
Comcast buys NBC, clouding online TV’s future
Why a Comcast/NBC merger is bad news
Let's not forget about the music biz...
Time for musicians to take charge: stop waiting for others to fix the music business. The day of record labels is done my friends.
Google CEO says not to blame for news media woes. I use the net for my news. Screw newspapers.
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2 comments:
I think the Frosty thing would have been a lot funnier if it were like the Scrubs Charlie Brown thing (link in case anyone hasn't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Of_mna-Rs ) and not just audio from the show put over clips of Frosty.
Thanks for the heads up on The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret . I'm sure that will be swell.
Yeah, I agree on the SCRUBS thing.
I also just finished watching the TOOD MARGRET pilot. I really liked it. "I will fuck the old out of you."
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