| From the "If a video-sharing site falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it" department...The San Diego tech company DivX is shutting down its Stage6 video-sharing site, which aimed to be... | |
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| Last year, I wrote about how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences requested that YouTube yank any clips from the Oscar telecast...and yet the official Oscar site didn't offer much video to... | |
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| - The NY Times offers some interesting data about how people consume video online: the 20 percent of viewers who watch the most video view more than 140 times as much of it as the 50 percent who... | |
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| VFX World talks to John Knoll, Mike Fink, and Scott Farrar about their nominated movies: 'Pirates: At World's End,' 'The Golden Compass,' and 'Transformers.' (Courtesy of vfxblog.)Fink says:If there... | |
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| Big thinker Allan Yasnyi e-mailed today to make sure I'd seen this WSJ piece on the on-again/off-again relationship between big media companies and the videogame business. (I hadn't.) The... | |
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| - NY Times columnist David Pogue evaluates four leading Internet-connected set-top boxes, and gives the $300 Vudu the highest overall grade. (Others included in his survey include Xbox 360, Apple TV,... | |
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| Looking back at the history of the Academy Awards, you can pinpoint five Oscar wins that were central to the evolution of the movie industry, altering the way movies are made by directors and... | |
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| Anne Thompson of Variety has a blog posting and a column that together offer a very thorough update on alternative distribution.Madonna recently said that she's planning to explore Internet... | |
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| The producers of the science documentary 'BLAST,' about the launch of a high-altitude telescope, claim that they're the first ones using ArtistShare to raise money for a film. ArtistShare is an... | |
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| The final nails were hammered into HD DVD's coffin this week, with Netflix, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart deciding to stock only Blu-ray discs and players.Here's an obituary from today's NY Times.From the... | |
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