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CBS is positioning 47 high-definition cameras in Miami’s Dolphin Stadium. “We’re plastered [with cameras],” said Ken Aagaard, SVP of operations and production for CBS Sports. “It’s the Super Bowl, so there is no stone unturned.” Here’s the gear rundown which includes a Phantom camera (pictured) that can capture 2,000 frames per second for super-duper-slo-mo.
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Some 59 percent of Americans in a poll said parking in a fire lane is a more serious offense than illegally downloading a movie. “Most people perceive celebrities and studios to be rich already and as a result don’t think of movie downloading as a big deal,” said Kaan Yigit, study director at Solutions Research Group. If that’s the way Americans think about movie downloads, you can only imagine what they think about downloading torrents of TV shows, which originate from free television.
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Good piece on 60 Minutes last night. Nominally, it was about the “Geek Squad,” an interesting story in itself. (Started by one guy, eventually bought out by Circuit City Best Buy. Also- why they wear those outfits.) But the excellent reporter Steve Kroft took the story a step beyond, to examine how computers are taking over our lives - and why they are so damned confusing. Best bit: Northwestern professor Dr. Donald Norman, who helped set HDTV’s technological standards, had to hire a geek to set up his own HDTV. “Someone complained to me, ‘You’d need a degree, an engineering degree from MIT, to work this damn thing’…Well, I have an engineering degree from MIT. And I couldn’t work it.” (Video is on story’s page.)
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