Do you watch tv regularly? How about cable? I tend to think that cable falls upon blind eyes nowadays since I don't really know anyone who takes cable tv seriously anymore. The only good stuff is on the primetime networks, and they post most of their best content online - LOST and The Office do it for me. And when shows are delayed a few days for their online counterparts, people (not me...) can torrent HD recorded episodes from other users online. It's really quite simple why people are turned off by having to "tune in" to watch what they want.
Maybe everyone already knows about this but me, but there's a site called Trailer Addict that I'm falling in love with. I don't know about you but I love me some movie trailers. I can't get enough of them. When I was a kid I used to hate my sister for always making us late to the theater - losing my chance at seeing what would be coming soon to a theater near me. With Trailer Addict, though, that will never happen again, or to you either.
I dig the sites mission - trailers on demand, and in HD too - but its homepage is a bit too convoluted for my taste. It took me a while before I realized that clicking on the near hidden "Coming Soon" button that I could browse upcoming movies, listed in order of date of release. Drop down menu's would be a welcome change, and a bit of consistency in layout as well. Other than though, if you can navigate yourself through this mess, you'll find gold: Clash of the Titans, Black Dynamite, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
In another collaborative review, Nick and I dissect the in’s and out’s of what exactly makes Left 4 Dead 2 different than its predecessor. New weapons, enemies, and modes give it more than just an expansion type feel to the series - making it a true sequel to last year’s hit game. Brains, brains, brains!!
For those who haven't seen the recent post, Comcast now owns NBC, which also means they own Hulu - a site dedicated to bringing you your favorite tv shows online. Many college students use it since most rooms don't have cable.
Comcast COO Steve Burke notes "NBC has been careful not to put too much cable content on the Internet. We think that's a smart strategy... We think that going forward, you're going to continue to have free broadcast stuff on Hulu, and cable stuff on TV Everywhere."
Rumors of a Hulu Premium are looking more and more true. Even though the deal has gone through, everything has to be approved through the FCC as well as the Justice Department.
For full Press Release check out Here
[Via Engadget] -NM
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Trusted "sources" are said to the basis for changing the Google Phone 'rumor' status to 'real product'. On top of that it's supposed to run a special version of Android software, or rather the REAL Android that Google has yet to reveal in any of its supported phones.
But why is this phone so special? Well, I guess you could compare it to Apple's iPhone. This will be Google's own personal product, running their own software with the hardware being sold by a third party, which more than likely will be T-Mobile, as reported on in other blogs. This is pretty big for them since they could run their own show, so to speak. No more waiting on Apple's app review process to have one of their products put on display. Now they can just put it on their own platform. And by having that special perk they can do what no other phone service has done before - offer VoIP calling over a data plan.
Not sure exactly how this will be pulled off but my guesses are that you'd buy the phone, then sign a contract for a data plan for the Google Phone, which you can then use to let's say run Google Talk. Which in theory would give you "free" mobile phone service, although there would be limitations, but then again we're talking about Google. I'm pretty sure they're more than capable of taking care of themselves and planning ahead. I'm actually pretty excited to see where this leads.
Estimates put the phone being released as early as January 2010.
[LiveScience via Gizmodo]
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