Archive for December 28th, 2007
‘Tis that time of year, LostRemoters: The champagne is chilling, the orchestra is tuning up for Auld Lang Syne, and even though he’s not with us officially, Safran is trimming his BoSox memorial handlebar ’stache and shining up his Patriots cufflinks for the big New Years Eve. Oh, and everyone in the business is kicking out their Year In Review lists. BBC offers “The technology with impact 2007″, including the iPhone, Facebook, the launch of Vista and the XO laptop. Wired has AFI’s list of “Moments of Significance” that includes the writers strike, the iPhone, and the “hyper-tabloidization” of television news.
Ok, Faithful. You know how we do it here. The comments are open for your YIR lists. Tell us the winners, the losers, the best and the worst, and the most significant happenings in television, online and anything else for 2007.
December 28th, 2007
This is a great article.
As the Hollywood writers strike drags toward 2008, the video game industry is hoping a lack of fresh episodes in prime-time could motivate more people to pick up video game controllers instead of remotes — especially with the millions of Wiis and copies of “Call of Duty 4″ under Christmas trees this holiday season.
Last time the writers went on the picket line, the big gaming competition came from Tetris. Now that games have powerful narrative components and blockbuster movie visual effects, gamers have other ways to spend their time than watching reruns. “Call of Duty 4″ screen grab…
December 28th, 2007
Amazon.com added Warner Music Group to the growing number of labels that sell music free of copy protections in its digital music store. In the linked article, Forbes contends that Amazon is training its guns on Apple in a music download shoot-out. Only EMI sells rights-free music on iTunes.
December 28th, 2007
The Hollywood Reporter got an early shot at the new-media survey from Deloitte & Touche, “State of the Media Democracy.” About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others. LR faithful know Cory always says the UGC revolution has only just begun, and I’m the game and mobi guy. This one has something for both of us: In Deloitte’s first edition of the survey just eight months earlier, 24 percent of consumers used their cell phones as entertainment devices, meaning that usage has soared 50 percent. What’s your mobi and UGC strategy for 2008?
December 28th, 2007
Must be the last official news day of the year, because the story that leads my feeds is the yawner about Wal-Mart shutting down movie downloads less than a year after they tried to get into the business. Now, I don’t have a big pile of demographic data before me, but the gut check tells me that the Wal-Mart brand just doesn’t carry an online value proposition that could touch the love people have for Netflix or other online movie sources that carry that spunky, creative do-something-new vibe. Maybe it is just me.
December 28th, 2007
