Movies
Is the Deal Being Made in the Smoke Filled Back Room? – The MPAA Meets with the FCC Behind Our Backs!
The MPAA has had two high level meetings with Commissioners of the FCC behind the backs of the American people. Such closed door meetings are permitted so long as they are disclosed. Single party back room meetings are generally disfavored in the American court system – but then this is not taking place in a [...]
Revision3 Shutdown – WSJ Gets it Wrong!
Update: View Story Leo Laporte’s interview of Jim Lauderback here. It offers a great deal more insight than the WSJ article discussed below and is a great supplement to Lauderback’s blog post on Revision3. The Wall Street Journal in an article for subscribers here has done a masterful job of obfuscating the true ineptness and [...]
Revision3 CEO: Blackout Caused by MediaDefender Attack
Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 an internet site that aims to be the first real U.S. internet television (or monitor) network, describes here how an (in)famous company known for its contract work for the MPAA and RIAA to counter internet piracy purposefully or accidentally shut down the Revision3 business over the long Memorial Day weekend. [...]
Hauppauge HD PVR Supported by SageTV, Snapstream & GB-PVR
As reported in an earlier article Snapstream’s BeyondTV will support the new HD PVR. Now, it has been confirmed that SageTV will also support the USB 2.0 device that takes full advantage of the analog hole. According to this post SageTV CEO Mike Machado confirmed that the HD PVR will likely be supported when the [...]
Disney and Pixar have Ambitious Plans Through 2012 – 3-D Makes a Comeback
Disney/Pixar issued a press release discussing their planned animation releases through 2012 -a total of 10 motion pictures. Amazingly, following the release of “Bolt” all Disney animated movies will be released in Disney Digital 3-D(TM). I do not believe they will be only screened in 3-D, but that the movies will, in some select theaters, [...]
Home Brew HD PVR Timeshifting Soon to be a Reality!
Finally the home brew PVR HD solution is available! Snapstream has pictures here of BeyondTV working from a prototype Hauppauge HD PVR. One caption reads “the red light means Beyond TV is busy making a recording off this thing.” The analog hole has finally been exploited. Hauppauge is taking orders for $250 a unit. When [...]
HD Set-top Box PVR Finally a Reality
Update 8/09/2008 Snapstream is hard at work to make BeyondTV and the HD-PVR to operate well together. See the article here. Update 6/20/08: Hauppauge has issued new drivers that are available for download. Soon we will see if BeyondTV will work with the new drivers. Update 6/3/2008 The HD PVR is in – See the [...]
Top Five Classic Charlton Heston Movie Moments
Few actors – of his or any generation – can lay claim to having been responsible for so many of cinema’s definitive big-screen moments. However, one scene is missing from this DIGG list. A list of Charlton Heston moments cannot be complete without this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE read more | digg story
