Entertainment… Observe and Report–Seven Word Review 25 Sep 2009 A bit more disturbing than I expected.
Entertainment… Bandwidth Conclusions 5 May 2009 A couple of weeks ago, I posted some updated discoveries regarding bandwidth usage when streaming content. My totals are, unfortunately, not much higher than they were when I posted that…
Entertainment… Real-World Bandwidth Usage 19 Apr 2009 So, as I've mentioned before, I'm looking at what sort of bandwidth is actually used when you take advantage of the many media offerings made available on the internet. For…
Entertainment… Time Warner’s Bandwidth Caps 11 Apr 2009 PC Magazine has a write-up about TWC's proposed bandwidth caps, which I briefly mentioned here. According to PC Mag, TWC will offer a super-rock-bottom class of services with 768kbps down/128kbps…
Entertainment… Blockbuster Over? 7 Apr 2009 So sayeth MSNBC. Well, actually, so sayeth AP, so maybe I shouldn't link this story... (more on that in my next post). (Link. Via Gizmodo, via via via...) In any…
Entertainment… New Shuffle 11 Mar 2009 I'm not sure why Apple product releases always get top billing. Okay, actually, I know why. It's because a lot of people own them. And they're really gleamy. But they're…
Entertainment… This is where we’re going… 4 Mar 2009 CNET (and, as of 9:06a central, a few others) are talking about ZillionTV (link here or here), which purports to stream television shows and movies to you, without the need…
Entertainment… Censorship Before the SCOTUS 4 Nov 2008 Well, today the Supreme Court of the United States is going to tackle one of those juicy cases. You know, the type of case that will probably end up in…
Entertainment… Getting Netflix on a Mac 27 Oct 2008 As time goes on, I may begin to seem a little more critical of Macs than non-Macs. Macs are gorgeous machines (if a little blah in the color-scheme; a guy…
Entertainment… No surprises here…. Studios Don’t Like RealDVD 30 Sep 2008 My last post (three weeks ago, natch) suggested that the studios would find some way to sue RealNetworks for its software, RealDVD, even if Real wasn't hacking the encryption. Looks…
