Right off the bat, I want to tell you that my thoughts here come from reading an article at Jezebel where they report on the petition signed by 180 recording artists asking for some reforms of the Digital Millennium…
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Because TVs sound like the speakers are made from tinfoil. My $2,000 TV sounds terrible. My $300 TV sounds even worse. It’s kind of ridiculous. I shouldn’t need a whole home theater system just so I…
Goodbye, 17″ monitor, hello 40″ screen!
I really want an UltraHD Blu-ray player, which is a sure sign the format is headed for an early death. As my friends know, I have the worst luck picking sides in electronics battles. I was…
I can’t explain why, but it seems like the world has gone batty for virtual reality lately. I’m old enough to remember the last time this came around, back in the 1990s, and I have a…
With so many sources out there, where do you get your news?
I don’t remember who exactly first gave me this idea. It was clearly a long, long time ago, because at one time it went like this: “What if there was a VCR that, instead of recording…
I’m an early adopter. Surprised? It means I get to play with cool stuff pretty early on, and it also means I often get stuck at a dead end, having invested in a technology that went…
I really like that segment on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver when he asks, “How is this still a thing?” I’ve been using that phrase for years and it’s true, you look at something and it’s…
I’ll admit that when I’m in our Southern California office, I sometimes watch TV news. I mean the local news sometime between 4 and 6pm. I don’t watch long unless there’s a car chase, which happens…
Broadcasters complain that they’re on the verge of losing everything. They claim they need 18 minutes of commercial airtime every hour in order to keep American Idol and Dancing with the Stars on the air. On the other hand, DISH…
It’s become almost cliche to say broadcast networks have an advertising problem. People skip commercials. They just do. Unless you’re watching a show live, a lot of the impact of the commercial is lost. And that’s…
OK, there’s one avid reader of this blog who will shout “No!” But let’s put that aside for a moment. There was a time when we all wanted TVs with picture-in-picture. Watch two shows at the…
The writing’s on the wall… at least that’s what a lot of people think. Regional sports networks, which started in the 1980s as modest ways for people with cable TV to see out-of-market games, have grown…
When I want to own a movie, I want the best possible quality. Today that’s Blu-ray disc, and soon it’s going to be 4K Blu-ray. Streaming and downloadable doesn’t come close, at least not yet. But…