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Posted by Joe Peicott in Film, Technology, Tools Of The Trade on 11. Apr, 2008 | No Comments
Adobe is going an HDR route, but with focal length and depth of field. Instead of making a gigantic photo Length-X-Width-wise, they make a gigantic photo with multiple photos stacked on top of each other and seemlessly blended together.
Posted by Joe Peicott in As-I-See-It, New Media Trends, Podcasts on 10. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
One of my favorite new podcasts is Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. It’s this guy, Dan Carlin, rambling on about historical events. He really does ramble. He takes a historical event or trend, say the Battle of Hastings, and talks on about it at motormouth speeds for 45-minutes or so.
Posted by Joe Peicott in As-I-See-It on 02. Dec, 2007 | No Comments
The Wall Street Journal is running a story about the Ritz-Cartlon’s hip new short film campaign.
Taking a page out of BMW’s playbook, the Ritz aims to portray its stuffy old lodging brand as trendier hospice, suitable for the newly moneyed young exec. set.
While I haven’t seen the films (they’re not out yet, even [...]
Posted by Joe Peicott in Advertising Dollar, Apple, Apple TV, As-I-See-It, Funding, Network TV, Old Media, Subscription Model on 23. Sep, 2007 | 4 Comments
A quick overview of the Big Four TV Networks’ current online distribution strategies in this week’s Weekly Variety.
Let’s take a look at the Net making the most waves in the Digital Distribution arena this season, NBC:
NBC famously ditched Apple’s iTunes store a few weeks back. Word on the Street is that NBC wanted to [...]
Posted by Joe Peicott in Apple, Apple TV, As-I-See-It, HighDef, iPhone on 12. Aug, 2007 | No Comments
It seems all but official: the Apple TV is a dud.
At last week’s iMac/iWork/iLife announcement press conference, Mr. Jobs gave a downright .mac-ish answer to a quandary about the once-applauded TV interface device: ‘we’re workin’ on it…’
Prior to its release, the Apple TV was a product I was quite hyped up for. I was [...]
Posted by Joe Peicott in Film, Old Media on 29. Jul, 2007 | No Comments
Article in this week’s Weekly Varietey showcases the Cinema16 series of DVD’s. Each DVD is a collection of short films shot on 16MM, mostly European fare (the DVD Series’ Editor believes that European short films are generally better and more interesting than American shorts, because Film School Culture in America teaches kids that short [...]
Posted by Joe Peicott in As-I-See-It, Network TV, New Media Trends, Old Media, Streaming, TV News on 07. Jul, 2007 | No Comments
Friday’s Variety has a quick article on a $5-million award to the PBS News Mag Frontline by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
“Frontline” exec producer David Fanning said the show plans to develop a video player to allow for even more enhanced content on the Web. The MacArthur grant “will allow [...]
Posted by Joe Peicott in Apple, As-I-See-It, Cool Service, Music, New Media Trends, Scrobbling, Streaming, iPhone, iPod on 04. Jul, 2007 | No Comments
Oh yeah– this thing’s an iPod too?!
It’s by now been speculated by quite a few tech commentators that if the iPhone had debuted without any wireless or phone features, as simply the great next-gen version of the iPod, it would have been met with universal acclaim. As it is, though, you’d be hard-pressed to [...]
Posted by Joe Peicott in Film, Funding, Old Media on 22. May, 2007 | No Comments
A disappointingly meandering article in last weekend’s Variety details Phase 2 of Wall Street’s foray into the movie industry.
Private Investor money has long been flowing into Hollywood, but over the past few years a new investment scheme was hatched: super-rich investment funds began investing in a slate of a Studio’s films, so that they owned [...]
Posted by Joe Peicott in Apple, As-I-See-It, Music, Online Marketplace, Subscription Model on 01. May, 2007 | 1 Comment
With the iPod, Steve Jobs managed, with a seemingly inconsequential device, to enter Masters of Industry class, in that he, through sheer product alone, was able to create a new archetype of consumer. Steve Jobs became the Henry Ford of a new, new age. Remember, in Ford’s day, someone who owned a car [...]
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