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NBC Wants You to be a Criminal

January 19, 2009 – 9:16 pm

In addition to full episodes of their TV Shows, NBC’s website has lots of web only content. All of that content is blocked from outside the US. To me this sends one message unmistakable message. Look elsewhere. Of course the other popular service, Hulu, is blocked as well. That means if I want to see [...]

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OLED TV’s Will Make Your LCD’s and Plasmas Look Like Poo

October 10, 2007 – 10:43 am

OLED has: brighter colors sharper contrast much thinner weighs less more energy efficient faster video relay (no blur like LCD & Plasma) But here is why you don’t want one today: expensive small viewing size (only 11″ diagonal) limited life span (sort of, 30,000 hours which is roughly 10 years of viewing it 8 hours a day) It seems at this point that OLED will be the standard, but it isn’t ready for the spot light just yet.

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NBC Wants People to Stop Buying TV Shows

August 31, 2007 – 10:23 am

On the heels of iTunes getting rid of DRM in music NBC says they want more. Apple has announced that they will not carry NBC shows because NBC wanted each episode to sell for $4.99 which is more than double what they cost now.

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Andy Barker P.I.

March 10, 2007 – 11:21 pm

They’re putting a new mid-season replacement show out onto the interweb before airing even one episode on TV. I can only assume it is a move to make sure the show has a chance to be seen considering this is a time when no one really expects to see new shows.

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