media

I’ve been thinking about the relationship between media consumers and producers recently. There is a clear gap between these two view points. Unfortunately, the current relationship isn’t working. Consumers don’t like paying for content, navigating past advertisements, and balancing true opinion with purchased placement. Conversely, producers are sick and tired of having their content ripped, [...]

Over the last few weeks apple has totally relaunched their media player market. No, I’m not talking about their portable media players, I’m talking about their desktop media players: Quicktime and iTunes. iTunes On 9/9/09 at apple’s ‘It’s only rock and roll’ media event, iTunes 9 was launched with a slew of new features. Among [...]

With the nightmare we call an economy affecting more and more people, it’s becoming very important to cut back. We need to save enough for the needs of today and any disasters tomorrow. Although you don’t want to, cutting cable TV can significantly reduce monthly spending. On a positive note though, cable can just as [...]

Today I saw a promotion for ‘current customers’ to get comcast highspeed internet for $19.99. I contacted comcast and was rudely told I was wrong. “The deal is for current customers who only have television service”, I was told. However, upon reading the terms there was no mention of this requirement. I contacted comcast again [...]

Walt Mossberg in this 8 minute video talks about the world wide web as a video delivery medium. It’s clear that the internet will be taking over this platform that conventional television broadcasts have held but the true question is when can this happen? Honestly, and what I feel Walt was talking about, is that [...]