Not as much as I’d thought, honestly. About a year ago, Apple released its iPhone 7. It was the first mass-market phone in about a decade without a proper headphone jack. Before that, phones had proprietary…
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Quick. What’s your best friend’s phone number? You get points if you got it right. Still, you probably can’t give the phone numbers of your ten closest relatives. The odds are overwhelming that you can give…
Here’s another true story taken from my own life. I was recently housesitting for a friend. Nothing terribly hard about housesitting, because let’s be honest most houses don’t exactly change from day to day. But you…
Does your family look like this anymore? Of course not. Your TV doesn’t look like this anymore either, I’d bet. So why are you still watching television in standard definition? If you’re still using an old…
That’s right, I said it. I didn’t just beat around the bush like SlashGear or LightReading. Those sites want to warn you about a possible future where practically every program you want will require its own streaming service….
So the other day I was having lunch with a friend and his son. The son is in his 20s, and lives on his own. We were talking about Mr. Robot, which is not coming back until the…
You’ve probably read the news. Disney is ending its relatively short relationship with Netflix and starting its own streaming service sometime in 2019. Personally, I think it’s just a bridge too far. This might be the…
If I were a local broadcaster I’d be worried. I guess I’d be in the minority, though. In the last several years, local broadcasters had the opportunity to sell back their licenses to the FCC and…
Eventually everything ends, so I’m sure at some point satellite TV, at least DIRECTV, will end. But folks, it’s not coming anytime soon. A lot of folks are worried that DIRECTV is going to wind down…
What’s the next big thing? If I knew that I’d be rich. I don’t know, honestly. But I’ve been watching consumer electronics for a lot of years. Most of the time when I thought something was…
That’s pretty low. The 2016-2017 broadcast year was the worst on record, with the top rated shows performing worse than most cancelled shows from the 1990s. Let me say that a different way. In 1997, a…
The latest trend in TV is shorter seasons. Unless you’re talking about the major broadcast networks, it’s rare to see a show go more than 10-12 episodes in a season now. Most broadcast TV shows do…
Read this blog long enough and you’ll realize I don’t like Sprint. Yes, I get it… their prices are lower and the quality of their service is almost as good. But, over the years they’ve just…
Pac12 Network. Spectrum Sportsnet LA. There are other channels out there that DIRECTV fans crave but those two keep coming up as examples of how DIRECTV has “lost its mojo” or “become a slave to the…
Is the new version of Twin Peaks a success or a failure? Much like the show itself, it’s hard to tell what’s real. An unusually insightful article in Buzzfeed lays out the arguments, but doesn’t get to the real heart of…