Tag Archive for 'television'

Tim Wu’s “The Master Switch” — a book of revelations.

If you want to save the Internet rather than hasten its demise, read this book. It’s important.

Art imitates life in PhoneShop.

Though more about high street sales culture than the mobile phone industry specifically, each episode of PhoneShop is good for a jab or two at prepaid customers — i.e., the ones who don’t sign on for multi-year contracts…

Ok, I’m calling it… DVD-Video is dead.

I won’t deny that DVD-Video was a saviour for home entertainment when it first came on the scene in the dying days of the last century, or that the PlayStation 2 was the perfect Trojan horse for widespread adoption of the format. I know. I was there.

But the days of DVD-Video have clearly come and gone…

In praise of Canada’s APTN.

Though I willingly gave up my cable television service last October I still, from time to time, feel the urge to park my ass on the sofa and stare into the idiot box for a few minutes. Or an hour. It doesn’t help that I still receive a trickle of channels via my cable Internet cable. Thankfully, one of them is Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

Wait, what?

Pioneer One, episode one is here!

You must understand that this project is very big deal, whether you’re a fan of the subject matter or not.

If it’s successful Pioneer One could pave the way for a golden age of video storytelling — funded by fans, delivered by BitTorrent, all without any meddling by big media…