Collaborate Disseminate
Comcast plans to spin off several of its cable TV networks into a standalone company as it shifts focus to streaming and other profitable ventures like Peacock, theme parks, and broadband services. The Associated Press reports: Those one-time stars for… Continue reading Comcast Spins Off Cable Networks
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple plans to license some of its Apple TV+ content to competing services in an effort to save money and spread its reach. From the report: Apple has hired an executive to license its original productions to o… Continue reading Apple TV+ Will License Its Movies To Other Services To Reduce Billions In Losses
Customers have formed new habits of regularly pausing subscriptions and returning to them within a year. From a report: As subscription prices rise and streaming-centric home entertainment becomes the norm, families are establishing their own hierarchi… Continue reading A New Streaming Customer Emerges: The Subscription Pauser
According to The Verge, Netflix plans to delist almost all of its interactive shows and films as of December 1st. Only four of the 24 interactive titles will remain: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, Ranveer… Continue reading Netflix Is Removing Nearly All of Its Interactive Titles
TVs used to be round, and the GE M935AWL is a great example of that. [bandersentv] found one of these ancient sets, but found it had a “cataract”—a large ugly …read more Continue reading Cataract Surgery For An Old TV
Speaking of streaming services, an anonymous reader shares a story that looks into Apple’s entertainment offering: Ever since its launch in 2019, Apple TV+ has been carving out an identity as the new home for prestige shows from some of Hollywood’s big… Continue reading Why is Apple So Bad at Marketing Its TV Shows?
Amazon Prime is launching a new Shark Tank-style competition show where contestants pitch products to a panel of celebrity investors and a live audience called “The 100.” If a product wins audience approval, it gets featured in Amazon’s Buy It Now Stor… Continue reading Amazon Is Launching Its Own Shark Tank Where Winners Get To Be Amazon Sellers
It’s been a long time since the family TV has had a CRT in it, and even longer since that it was using what was basically an overgrown oscilloscope tube. …read more Continue reading Curing CRT Cataracts Freshens Up Retro Roundy TVs
It is hard to imagine that a handful of decades ago, TV wasn’t a thing. We’ve talked a few times about the birth of television. After an admittedly slow slow …read more Continue reading Retro Gadgets: Things Your TV No Longer Needs
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple is rethinking its movie strategy after the disappointing box office performance of several big-budget films, including Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon, Argylle and Fly Me to the Moon. Ap… Continue reading Apple Rolls Back Its Big Plans to Release Movies in Theaters