Nov 06
Watching your favorite TV show is so much better when you have someone to chat about it with. OneLouder’s new app, Live 140 makes it very easy to do just that. More »
Nov 05
At 10pm EST, Bravo’s awful and totally hilarious self-parody of a Silicon Valley reality TV show, Real Startups of Atlanta, or some bullshit, premieres. We will be watching and liveblogging in Kinja. Related, we’re also trying to fend off the impending apocalypse that this show is trying to usher in. More »
Nov 05
Here’s the Horrendous First Scene of Amazon’s Original Musical Comedy "Browsers"
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Rumors are flying that in a bid to get some original content, Amazon is close to pushing through a musical comedy about four interns working for a “Huffington Post-esque” website, a project that was previously dropped (and rightly so) by CBS. What could possibly come of this? We thought long and hard about it, and here’s what it might look like (as imagined by yours truly, once an intern though not here). It ain’t pretty. More »
Nov 05
CBS and Hulu make content deal, stream back catalog shows starting in January 2013
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CBS has been the lone Hulu refusenik among the biggest US broadcasters — even with rumors of licensing discussions underway at least two years ago, we’ve usually had to visit the network’s own site if we wanted a CSI fix without paying by the show. The deadlock is over at last now that CBS and Hulu have struck a deal. The agreement isn’t quite what we’d hope for, focusing almost exclusively on back catalog titles like Medium and Star Trek, although celebrity gossip junkies will like knowing that Entertaintment Tonight segments will be viewable the day they air on regular TV. We’ll have to wait until January 2013 for the selection to be ready — not to mention shell out for Hulu Plus to get full access — but there’s at least an end in sight to one of the longer content droughts in streaming video.
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Nov 05
CBS is home to many shows in which some unsuspecting individual with a special gift helps law enforcement agencies solve crimes once a week. And if you happen to be a fan of these shows, but don’t like watching them over broadcast or using the CBS site, there’s good news: they’ll stream on Hulu Plus next year. More »
Oct 29
As a profit-driven network, ITV has its work cut out in the online streaming world when the BBC’s iPlayer looms overhead. How do you compete with a cultural institution? Its solution these days is one of sheer choice: it’s launching a publicly available beta of its ITV Player refresh that offers TV show rentals. While viewers will have free, ad-backed viewing for the last month’s worth of programming, they’ll also have the choice of renting 30-day access to archived episodes at 49p (79 cents) each without the pesky commercials in between. Anyone who just can’t get enough Collision can spring for a 90-day rental of a whole series at a lower total price, and the broadcaster is even planning trials of streaming-first episode premieres — if only we were so forward-thinking in the US. We’d question the wisdom of anyone who really, truly needs an uninterrupted The Only Way is Essex, but at least those who want fodder for water cooler chats can blast through their pseudo-reality TV at a record pace.
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Oct 26
AUO develops IGZO-based, 65-inch 4K TV screen, vows high resolution without the high power
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It’s now clear that Sharp doesn’t have an exclusive lock on IGZO displays, even for the big-screen TVs that are still the company’s domain. AU Optronics has developed a 65-inch IGZO panel that wields the very light-friendly technology to reach 4K resolutions without the usual penalties — as the screen doesn’t need much backlighting to illuminate all those pixels, it can stay slim and keep the shocking energy bills to a minimum. The smaller size and miserly power draw also leave a real chance that any pricing will be closer to the mere mortal realm than current 84-inch behemoths. And while it’s mostly up to other companies to decide if and when they use AUO’s flagship display, we’ll have choices of our own should the IGZO TV still be too rich for our blood: the Taiwan firm has simultaneously developed a more conventional, 55-inch 4K screen with a wide color range as well as a 50-inch, 1080p panel with an extra-skinny 0.14-inch bezel. It’s at least good to know that there’s already competition for technology that’s just getting started.
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Oct 26
LG’s 84-inch 4K TV goes on sale in the US for $19,999, home mortgage optional
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Sony might have beaten LG to the punch in the 84-inch 4K TV wars with its XBR-84X900 pre-orders, but you’ve got to be on the field to win — and the first to show up for battle is LG’s 84LM9600, which is officially on sale and in stores as of today. Anyone who can find a retailer carrying the Ultra High-Definition LCD can drop $19,999 to get what will undoubtedly be the centerpiece of the room, even if there’s hardly any content to fully exploit those six million extra pixels. LG does have a $5,000 price advantage over the Sony 4K set shipping next month, although we won’t kid ourselves here. Anyone who can see themselves spending five digits on bleeding-edge TV technology is either wealthy enough not to mind or busy explaining to the family why home refinancing is totally worth it.
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Oct 25
The Best/Worst Parts of the First Clip from That Awful Silicon Valley Reality Show
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Bravo has released the first clip from Start-Ups, its parody-rife reality show about Silicon Valley. Here is the rundown of the short scene in which angel investor Dave McClure looks over a pitch from brother-sister disruptin’ duo Ben and Hermione (Hermione!) Way’s rip-roarin’ vaguely-purposed company, Ignite. It follows what we’ve come to know as Standard Reality Television Script and relies heavily on Start Up Lingo: More »
Oct 25
If you’re a big fan of movies and television, undoubtedly you have some of your favorite shows that may or may not be on the air anymore. A lot of people out there would love to own a prop used in one of their favorite movies or TV shows, and you can do just that. A company called ScreenUsed has announced a new auction that will be conducted on Saturday, November 3 of this year packed with cool props.
The auction has a huge number of items that were used on the screen in some of the most popular movies and television shows out there. If you ever want to own Jayne Cobb’s Vera machine gun from the series Firefly, here is your chance. The auction in November has a lot of other cool stuff as well.
Other interesting items that will be on auction include a Wink costume from the flick Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Neo’s coat from The Matrix Revolutions, and an even a production used clapperboard from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. While all that stuff is cool, those aren’t the most interesting items to me.
One of the most interesting items in the auction is the full racing suit worn by Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights. The racing suit is a customized Sparco racing suit worn by Ferrell along with the Wonder Bread hat and puma shoes. Another of the supremely cool items on display is a full endoskeleton chest from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. There are also multiple Star Trek uniforms and props as well as the Superman bodysuit worn by Christopher Reeve in Superman III.
Geeky movie props turn up at auction is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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