Apple has signed News Corp’s 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the way people pay for online film content.
The agreement will allow consumers to rent the latest Fox DVD releases by downloading a digital copy from Apple’s iTunes platform for a limited time, according to [...]
18 Dec
Posted by Geoff as Apple, Apple Macintosh, Mac, Mac OSX, Mac OSX Leopard, Macintosh, iMac
Forget Windows and especially forget Vista and all of its problems. Apple keeps getting better and better with its Macintosh computer line-up. Actually a pioneer in the computer industry, Mac computers are fluid, intuitive, secure and actually enjoyable to use. You spend less time worrying about configuration and security issues, and more time enjoying your [...]
The Blu-ray Disc Association is having a Blu – not blue – Christmas, according to sales figures it released Monday.
The group reported Black Friday sales “were decidedly Blu” for both hardware and software, accounting for a total sell-in since launch of 2.7 million players in North American households as of Nov. 24.
Although the announcement did [...]
16 Dec
Posted by Geoff as TV, television
There have been a a lot of questions about how to get information regarding the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration $40 digital-to-analog converter box credit coupon. View details at the NTIA website. Digital-to-analog box converter program
Starting January 1, 2008, all U.S. households will be eligible to request up to two coupons, [...]
14 Dec
Posted by Geoff as Hollywood, Internet TV, Internet television, Internet video, TV, TV shows online, online video, television, web video
The Hollywood union strike between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is turning into an all-out war. Last week, the WGA made more threatening demands, but the Alliance refused to budge, choosing instead to reply with rhetoric aimed at turning rank-and-file writers against the union’s “power-hungry” leaders. [...]
Google’s lead over competitors has almost gotten embarrassing. The company grew its market share by roughly 1 percent in November, and by nearly 10 percent from November 2006, according to Compete.com.
The news is particularly bad for Yahoo, whose market share fell nearly 1 percent sequentially and roughly 7 percent from the year-ago period. If it’s [...]
10 Dec
Posted by Geoff as Hollywood, Internet TV, Internet television, NBC Universal, TV, TV shows online, Video on Demand, movie downloads, movies online, television, web video
If you haven’t noticed it yet, the TV industry is in a bit of trouble.Between the writers’ strike, Arbitron’s delay of the Portable People Meter system, and ongoing doubts about ratings systems in general — not to mention a global increase in TV “piracy” — it’s tough to see a happy future for the traditional [...]
07 Dec
Posted by Geoff as Apple, Apple Macintosh, Mac, Mac OSX, Mac OSX Leopard, MacBook, Macintosh
Switchers keep gaining in importance to Apple and that’s easy to see in the company’s advertising campaign during this holiday season. Almost all the stories are aimed at switchers and Windows users: one compares the many Vista SKUs with the single Mac Leopard SKU; another tells Windows users not to give up on Vista; and [...]
05 Dec
Posted by Geoff as Apple, Apple Macintosh, Leopard, Mac, Mac OSX, Mac OSX Leopard, MacBook, Macintosh, iMac
Well, after a three month “flirtation” with a beautiful HP 17 inch widescreen laptop with Vista Home Premium, I decided to sell the computer (on eBay) and bought an iMac.
The HP was actually performing OK after several hardware and Vista-related issues. And this was a “native” machine with Vista pre-installed. But, I had no faith [...]