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Boot Camp for Your Brain: Last week I wrote about brain maintenance, and it seems like I'm not the only one with gray matter on my mind. An Associated Press article about the growing market for "brain fitness" revealed that software to train your brain resulted in $225 million in revenues in 2007. That's a...; Tags: Brain, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CC Holland; Blog posts 2008-07-03
The End of the Middlemen (i.e., Newspapers and TV Networks): Disintermediation. There's a term you probably haven't heard much since the '90s. But the idea of eliminating the middleman is alive and well in the media industry, circa 2008, even if we don't talk about it in exactly those terms these days. While traditional journalism debates --...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, David Weir, Fox, TV, Disintermediation, newspaper company, network; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Don't Touch That Technology -- Please: I got a link to an interview transcript from On the Media, the NPR program about the media industry, and had to pass it on because it's one of the smarter discussions on technology and the Internet I've seen in a while. Jonathan Zittrain was hawking his new book, The...; Tags: INTERNET, DVR, Digital video, Erik Sherman, EchoStar Communications Corp., Jonathan Zittrain, Apple Inc.; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Family Guy Creator Teams With Google to Re-create Banner Ads (and Mass Media): Seth MacFarlane, who helms Fox's raunchy cartoon Family Guy, and Google announced a new plan for advertising today, as reported in the New York Times. The plan will see MacFarlane creating a series of animated shorts, titled for now "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy," that will be placed via...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Jake Swearingen, Macfarlane, Google Inc., banner advertisement; Blog posts 2008-06-30
How Mark Wattles Fixes Broken Retailers: If Mark Wattles pulls off a deal to acquire Circuit City, by looking at his last two companies -- Hollywood Entertainment and Ultimate Electronics -- we can garner some strong clues how the company might right itself. by Lisa Everitt; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Games, Lisa Everitt, Mark Wattles, Ultimate Electronics, HDTV; Blog posts 2008-06-26

New Tivo/TRA Partership Seeks to Bring Better Metrics to TV: TiVo, which made DVRs mainstream and caused untold ulcers within the ad world thanks to the handy feature of being able to skip ads, announced a new deal today with TRA Inc. to bring better metrics for those interested in making TV media buys. From the press release: Through...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Jake Swearingen, TRA Inc., TV, advertisement; Blog posts 2008-06-24
Is DVR the Difference Between U.S. and U.K. TV Markets?: I was lucky enough to get another perspective on my post from yesterday, looking at why online ad spending is likely to outpace TV ad spending in the U.K. within a year, but will take longer for the same shift to happen in the U.S. I emailed Jeni Chapman, Executive...; Tags: TVs, DVR, TV & Home Theater, Digital video, Network technology, Jake Swearingen, online advertising, TV, advertisement, cable, digital video recorder; Blog posts 2008-06-20
Is DVR the Difference Between US and UK TV Markets?: I was lucky enough to get another perspective on my post from yesterday, looking at why online ad spend is likely to outpace TV ad spend in the UK within a year, but will take longer for the same shift to happen in the US. I emailed Jeni Chapman, Executive...; Tags: Advertisement, U.K., Digital Video Recorder, Online Advertising, TVs, DVR, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Jake Swearingen; Blog posts 2008-06-20
Why Online Ads Will Surpass TV in the UK Within a Year (And Why They Won't in the US): Today another report came out, this time from Enders Analysis, showing that in the UK, online ad spending is set to outpace television by the end of the year. This only cements the conclusions an earlier Internet Ad Bureau report reached this year this year (though that report posited 2009...; Tags: Advertisement, U.K., Online Advertising, Broadband Penetration, Print Market, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jake Swearingen; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Microsoft Buys TV Ad Firm Navic: Microsoft said Tuesday that it has acquired Navic Networks, which provides TV ad technologies. Navic, based in Waltham, Mass., has technology that manages campaigns, optimizes placement and delivers ads via interactive TV. In a nutshell, the acquisition of Navic gives Microsoft the ability to bundle ads offline...; Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-18
The Friday Round-Up: This week was all about the 1970s, and not in a good way. Our standard of living is slipping while costs rise, says the Mail. Memories of the decade of the three-day week and blackouts are doing little for the nation's mood. Labour's brought back the...; Tags: TVs, Flash Memory, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, BNET UK Staff; Blog posts 2008-06-13
Jacked and Vusion: Two More to Watch: The night before he presented his company Jacked to the audience at last week's Under the Radar conference, CEO Bryan Biniak saw his service break a new threshold -- 20,000 simultaneous hockey fans tracking a three-overtime playoff game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins. ...; Tags: Experience, Vusion, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-06-11
When the "News" Leaves the Newsweeklies Behind: In simpler era, the newsweeklies ruled the U.S. media roost. Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report broke stories and often had the definitive word on important issues. Their choices of which faces to place on their covers made news. But first cable television, then the...; Tags: Newsweek, News, Cable, TVs, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-06-10
Hollywood Sign: High Tech Security System/Internet Site: The Hollywood Sign, global icon of the entertainment industry, stretches 450 feet across the top of Mt. Lee in the Hollywood Hills. Ranking among the world's most recognizable landmarks, The Sign measures 50 feet tall and weighs 450,000 pounds. Charged with protecting arguably the most famous nine letters on earth,...; Tags: Panasonic, microwave, security; Case studies
Case Study: Tongsville: Tongsville' was created for quirky film and video producers Hammer & Tongs, best known for their music videos and TV ads, and more recently the big screen version of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The brief requested that the site remained deliberately unspecific as to what H&T do, but to...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, advertisement, video; Case studies
West Philadelphia Enterprise Center: The West Philadelphia Enterprise Center, located in urban Philadelphia, was the original home of the American Bandstand television show. A life-cycle cost LCC analysis of the Center's proposed GeoExchange system versus a water-source heat pump system with an electric boiler and cooling tower was conducted by Alderson Engineering, Inc., of...; Tags: Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium, GeoExchange, analysis, TV; Case studies
UK Film, Television and Video: Overview 2003: This paper elaborates on Film Production and details about the film industry. The advent of interactive multimedia devices such as the internet, and the mobile phone has meant that the art of mass manipulation in the entertainment industry has rarely reached such sophisticated levels. Hyping up products, whether they are...; Tags: TVs, British Film Institute, public relations, TV, marketing, mobile phone, industry, multimedia, mobile, phone, video, Internet; White papers
West Philadelphia Enterprise Project: An historic but deteriorating television production and broadcast facility in Philadelphia has been transformed into a dynamic center of urban renovation. It now serves as headquarters for the West Philadelphia Enterprise Center WPEC, a non-profit organization with a mission to serve as an incubator for new urban businesses. Modifications include...; Tags: American Standard Inc., Philadelphia, geothermal energy, TV, computer; Case studies
Genesis Structured Media White Paper: Residential structured cabling represents a fast growth market that no distributor or electrical contractor can afford to ignore. By 2004, it is forecast that more than half of all new homes in the United States will include a structured wiring system. If this prediction holds true, residential structured cabling will...; Tags: audio, voice, home theater, fax, video, phone, security, network; White papers
Packaging Technology Fosters a New Product Category: Packaging technology is helping to create a new product category limited-play DVDs and expand the distribution channels for these home entertainment products. This article briefs on how oxygen-scavenging film and vacuum packaging expands sales channels for DVD-based home entertainment products. Vacuum packaging, combined with oxygen-scavenging OS film, ensures product integrity...; Tags: Stagnito Communications, oxygen, home entertainment, DVD, disk, storage, sales, operating system; White papers