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I don’t have a plasma TV. I do have a nice little LCD.
The big news this morning was that Pioneer is laying off persons and getting out of the plasma TV business (story here). Apparently, Vizio is also pulling out of plasma TVs in favor of LCD TVs. Story here.
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Andy McCaskey talked with the folks at Cavium Networks to discuss their technology for wireless HD viewing and multi-casting – ultimately eliminating the wires to go from your Blu-ray to your HDTV. Most importantly: Do all this with zero latency and high quality picture.
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In Part 1, we looked at last years predictions. The numbers weren’t too shabby. This year, we’ve expanded the list to anyone that wanted to contribute. And Contributions I did get. 250 of them.
I spent most of Friday night and subsequent morning filtering the list to a couple pages worth of information. We have CEO’s, CTO’s, Marketers, Podcasters and even a Psychic helping us with this years list.
Of course at the end of the list I will be adding my 2 cents worth for 2009 on Page 2. So without any further ado, let’s get started.
No Comments »As a kid I had this really cool TV. it was a Bentley with a 5″ Black and White screen and ran on AC power or 9 “D” batteries. It went all the way up to Channel 83, so if I hooked it up to the cable today, I would get the Big 10 network, MTV, and Disney. Yeah, Black and White, but sometimes you have to go old school.
Joost is no Bentley, but they might have finally pulled into a niche here. Last week they made an iPhone app for the Joost service. It’s not the best thing in the world, but it’s better than nothing.
I saw this as I was driving out of my local YMCA on Wed. It was sad to see these items at the curb, but it also shows me how tech has changed. So I snapped, and thought I would share.
I didn’t have a TV with remote until 6 years ago. The TV’s we had were fine with me, mostly because I didn’t watch too much TV. When my main 19″ died, I went to the local pawn shop and baught a 20″ TV with remote. It now sits in the basement as the spare TV, but really – I watch even less television than I did before.
I DO have a VCR in my room. No Tivo or other DVR. If you don’t watch TV, you don’t need to record anything. Yeah, I miss a couple shows but then again, I can usually go online and watch them from the networks’ website. The VCR is technically a TV tuner, and it was also connected so I could convert a few home movies into DVD format. Otherwise, see my comment above about TV’s.
This shows us the end of an era is fast approaching. Analog is 8 months from dead. A TV like this won’t be worth a hill of beans without a HD converter box. But then again, I already have converter boxes controlling my televisions’ content.
No flatscreen yet (except for my computer monitors). I will eventually have to break down and get one, but why do it now? My guess is Flatscreens will be the gift to give this holiday season and prices will be low.
Still, this picture definitely sums up the direction we are going.
One hundred days. Imagine a produce department without fresh produce for 100 days. Imagine not stepping into a room for 100 days. Now imagine no new programming written for 100 days. Or wait – was it?
The writers’ strike ended on Feb 13th, just in time for the Oscars. The main issues the writers were bringing up were that they were getting paid for content to be aired on TV. However people also watch the show online as well as downloading clips and pieces to ipods and computers. Many were making money off this new facet, that is, except for the writers.
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Another Vocalo.org member, Jesse decided to remix the bit I did on Men who would be celebate for 6 months to get a free 50 inch tv.
This one you might want to wait til you get home. Kinda NS-FW
I remember the Holidays back in the 70’s and 80’s. It was a different time then. Phones were wired at the house, we all watched TV on a 20” CRT monitor, and video games were on an Atari, NES or SEGA system. Cars ran on Regular (til the early 80’s) or Unleaded and sometimes Diesel. You spent about 20 minutes outside warming up and scraping off the car. Albums were on CD. And all your Spam came in letter format, through Magazines or TV commercial.
Does anyone remember the onslaught of Ronco products, Patsy Cline and Zamfir album commercials? Send only 9.99 plus S&H to the address on your screen? They were only a minute long. Not 30. Remember flipping through 3-4 channels and watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” on all of them Christmas eve? Read the rest of this entry »
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