Time to get ready for the new UHDTVs.
Ultra High Definition Television will have resolutions up to eight times the current king of HDTV resolution, 1080p.
UHDTV will come in two different versions: 4K, with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, and 8K, with a resolution of 7680 x 4320 pixels. That’s basically equivalent to the size of a photo taken by an 8-megapixel camera and a 32-megapixel camera.
Source: thedaily.com
If even half of this comes to pass, COMCAST just secured my monthly payment for another few years.
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Sherlock Series 2 - New Trailer!
Going to a movie and buying a Blu Ray are basically the same price now. Congratulations Hollywood, you’ve priced yourself out of the market.
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HBO, Bigpoint to Develop ‘Game of Thrones’ Online Game
Source: hollywoodreporter.com
The pain of it all!
Amazing. No show name and no network logo. No need for them.
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Colonial House and [2002’s] Frontier House are different types of reality. They’re experiential history programs. Moving forward, we’ll look at those types of things. To get younger people engaged in history, you have to really look closely at the formats. And since reality has taken over, I think there are some aspects of it that we can do.
Paula Kerger, CEO of PBS
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I just hope when she says ‘some aspects’ she means none.
Source: hollywoodreporter.com
I Tried To Watch Game Of Thrones...
Hollywood’s core piracy “problem” is perfectly captured in this one cartoon by The Oatmeal.
In fact, I’ve had this exact debate with myself. I really want to watch Game of Thrones. But I’m not an HBO subscriber because I’m not a cable subscriber and unfortunately, the two go hand-in-hand, no matter what I’m willing to pay.
Speaking of “willing to pay”, okay fine, I can’t get Game of Thrones on HBO, but I’m willing to pay a quite a bit of money to get it via iTunes. Wait. Nope. Can’t do that either. At least not for a few more months — well over a year after the first season wrapped.
Netflix? Nope. Not streaming or DVD/Blu-ray. Amazon? Nope. HBO.com? Not unless I’m a cable subscriber.
So my options are…
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…well, I only have one option. Thanks Hollywood!
On this, Parislemon probably doesn’t have all the facts. There are many reasons that a show hasn’t become available outside it’s regularly subscribed user base. A lot does indeed come down to greed and poor planning as he suggests. But sometimes, it has to do with ego, or old business practices, or one of many other reasons.
Sometimes, the legalities of the situation behind the scenes - whether that’s a Producer who hates downloading therefore wouldn’t sign away the rights or a deal that was put in place 10 yrs ago and still has 5 yrs to go - prohibit anyone from doing what everyone knows to be the ‘right thing’. It happens all the time.
So until HBO issues a written statement on exactly why it’s pursuing this coarse of action, Parislemon should do his job as a reporter and investigate the situation instead of just bitching about it - just bitching is my job.
Source: parislemon
How social media helped make ‘Downton Abbey’ a hit PBS show
Kevin Dando?! Hey, I know that guy!
Check out this brand new infographic “10 Facts About Downton Abbey.”
(via pbstv)
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The ‘story sync’ for AMC’s The Walking Dead doesn’t mince words.
The Super Bowl and Social Media PreGame
From Coke to Chevy, NBC Sports to GetGlue; everyone is gearing up for the big game.
Hands on with Taglists for iPhone and iPad
I found a review online about an app that lets you tag content from different sources with a hashtag, which then allows users (any user) to view that tagged content as a live stream.
What piqued my interest was the notion that it would be possible for PBS, as a content provider, to tag our video, photo, news content with certain category tags. Then anybody could stream that curated content to their device. Or, if they have an AppleTV, to their big screen television. AKA: A new TV channel is born based around a subject!
For example:
- Washington Week, Newshour, & Frontline each individually tag their content with #PBSElection2012. Anybody who wanted to see PBS’s election coverage then plays that stream and they get all that content personally curated into one stream and pushed to their device.
- Masterpiece tags all their different branded shows with #PBSMasterpieceClassic, #PBSMasterpieceContemporary, #PBSMasterpieceMystery and a user gets each one of those genres streamed to them.
- All our news partners each tag their content about a certain subject, #PBSSOPA. They could tag their news articles, their photos, and video. Then all that content doesn’t have to be searched for in many locations anymore. A person just types in the hashtag and all that content becomes a playlist on their device. The same hashtag could be used on-air and on twitter to create a total experience around one topic.
The beautiful thing is that users, if we wanted, could add that same hashtag to their own content and it would show up in the stream. That means a local station could run a story (AKA: #WETAHurricaneAlberto) and they could push stories about the hurricane with that tag. But then local users could add their own photos & videos with the same tag to the stream creating a robust local news experience that grows all on it’s own.
This would blow search out of the water. You might never have to search for a main subject again from a content provider. Instead of a search box, the main page might just have curated hashtag links. Clicking on a link provides a stream of content about a specific subject from multiple and varied sources - photos, news stories, video, etc.
No more broken searches or pushing users to other sites for different content. It just all reveals itself in one neat coherent stream.
Source: imore.com
