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06/01/2006
Think About That For a Minute by Steve Effros
THE NEXT "BETAMAX" CASE In a column in September of 2004, I posed the question of whether it made any sense whatsoever to consider the length of the wire between a recording device and the home television set as the determining factor for copyright law. The answer for me was no then, and it is […]
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04/10/2006
My Back Page: The Changing Faces of Cable…
…aren’t just on the show floor at the National Show in Atlanta. The real changing face has been and is at the subscriber level: First, when the industry didn’t quite take seriously enough the advent of direct broadcast satellite. We lost a lot of customers because of that ostrich-like response to initial competition. But cable […]
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01/24/2006
Programming
HDNet will premiere Steven Soderbergh’s "Bubble" on HDNet Movies the same day the movie opens in theaters. — Megan Mullally hosts the 4th annual "TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV," Mar 19, 9pm. – During Black History Month in Feb, YES Net honors Elston Howard, the Yanks’ first African American in a special […]
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01/09/2006
My Back Page: What Do the Following Have in Common?
New video game "effects" on Philips TVs. The Sprint/cable deal. "Free" VOD. MobiTV. Slingbox. ReplayTV for PCs. IPod w/video plus downloads. Fly pen computers. Mark Cuban’s digital movie theaters (and day-and-date DVDs). DVDs of TV series…old and new. Akimbo. A la carte. Google video searches. Video games. Video game consoles. Hi-def TV…and only half who […]
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01/03/2006
Happy New Year!
Well, it’s here, so let’s make it a happy one! We’ve been writing about things to come, to watch out for, to avoid and to pray never happens. We’ve also been reading everyone else’s predictions for the coming year. (Note: I like Tom Eagan’s going out a limb with ten events he says – hopes […]