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And So It Begins: 20th Century Fox to End Film Distribution

all digital theatrical in 2013

film futuremedia
23 days ago by dsankey

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Dexter Tops Game of Thrones as Most Pirated TV Show of 2011

"There were 3.62 million illegal downloads of Dexter this year, as compared with an estimated 2.19 million legitimate viewers of the show in the U.S." Was discussing pirate vs. legit viewership for Mad Men. So since Mad Men doesn't show up on this list of top downloads, it's got to be less than 1.7 million, as compared to the 2.5 million legit viewers (not including timeshifting, reruns, Netflix, DVD etc).

tv futuremedia torrents
4 weeks ago by dsankey

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1080p video smackdown: iTunes vs. Blu-ray

the new 1080p files on iTunes come close, but fall short of Blu-Ray. Still problems with banding etc. (<a href="http://macrumors.com">via</a>)

apple video futuremedia
10 weeks ago by dsankey

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When The Consoles Die, What Comes Next?

he had me at "the wedding theory". But seriously, this is a must-watch for those interested in the art and business of games. (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/113824/When-theres-no-more-room-in-Hell-the-consoles-will-walk-the-Earth">via</a>)

games business futuremedia
10 weeks ago by dsankey

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Here's the Amazon page of a book I'd like to read

that came out 4 years ago, hardcover is $8.15, paperback is $6.40, Kindle ebook $20. WTF. "This price is set by the publisher", and I'm guessing the publisher doesn't like Amazon's ebook business too much.

books ebook futuremedia
12 weeks ago by dsankey

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Patience and piracy: Why helping yourself hurts good TV

reasoned consideration of the Oatmeal / Game of Thrones piracy issue. I don't agree though - the window model is something that is in the process of being radically reworked, as any kind of enforced scarcity system should be at the moment, yet HBO has longer windows than anyone. I do like how VanDerWerff realizes that HBO has painted itself into a corner.

tv futuremedia piracy internet
12 weeks ago by dsankey

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Heavy Hangs the Bandwidth That Torrents the Crown

re <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones">that Oatmeal comic</a> from before. Dunno, I see both sides. There are so many ways of doing things now that it seems like bad business to stick to one or two customer-hostile methods.

futuremedia internet
february 2012 by dsankey

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With "Lilyhammer" Netflix Wants To Destroy Traditional TV, Get You "Hooked" On All-At-Once Watching | Fast Company

"If a show debuts without a premiere, will anyone watch it? That's the multi-million-dollar koan Netflix is looking to answer. And fast."

futuremedia tv internet
february 2012 by dsankey

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9% have cut cable, another 11% are considering it

I am considering it.

tv futuremedia
january 2012 by dsankey

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Please let this not be the future of reading on the web

good followup to "The Pummeling Pages".

web futuremedia ads
november 2011 by dsankey

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Sweet emulsion: why the (near) death of film matters

heh. I used to post a lot of "death of film" stuff 5-6 years ago, when digital projection systems were just getting started, and now it's actually here.

film tech futuremedia
november 2011 by dsankey

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What's Really Next for Apple in Television

Siri as the new remote. The big problem though is that big content and the cable/sat providers still control the industry. If Apple is seen as a threat, big content can stop licensing the shows, and cable providers can make non-bundled internet accounts prohibitively expensive. But perhaps Apple is planning on buying all the studios and starting its own ISP with all that cash.

tv tech apple futuremedia
october 2011 by dsankey

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10 things to remember about Netflix while scratching your head about Qwikster
business film futuremedia
september 2011 by dsankey

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Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?

This was stuck in my Instapaper list for ages. You've probably already read it.

culture facebook futuremedia
september 2011 by dsankey

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Digital distribution, participatory culture, and the transmedia documentary by Chuck Tryon
film futuremedia
august 2011 by dsankey

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Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

an essay on the post-physical future of books presented beautifully on the web (and also available for the Kindle)

books futuremedia ebooks
june 2011 by dsankey

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Netflix Is Winning the Internet

not in Canada they ain't. I love netflix, but a few months in the shallow catalog is starting to feel pretty constraining up here.

futuremedia tv internet
may 2011 by dsankey

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Online video surging in Canada

highest in the world for online video viewing, and still going higher. Keep this in mind for usage-based billing debates

canada internet futuremedia video
april 2011 by dsankey

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The Satsisfaction Paradox

looking at a future world where recommendations for what media to consume are more valuable than the media itself. I've been meaning to do a post on this for ages.

futuremedia
march 2011 by dsankey

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Amazon Cloud Player Lets You Play Your Music From Anywhere

anywhere is the web or android phone. Essentially costs $1/GB/year, which is decent. But this sounds like what MP3tunes got sued for.

music tech futuremedia
march 2011 by dsankey

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Viral videos a slippery slope for late-night hosts

ratings are consistently down among late-night talk shows as people increasingly just watch choice bits online. Question is, would those bits still get play in the absence of the hour-long show?

futuremedia tv comedy web
march 2011 by dsankey

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EU raids publishers in ebook price-fixing probe

"ebooks ... can cost more than twice as much as their printed cousins." Which makes no goddamned sense.

ebook books futuremedia business
march 2011 by dsankey

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The Very Rich Indie Writer

encouraging developments from the Kindle store - indie ebooks are selling for less yet making their writers more money than traditional publishers' fare. (<a href="http://waxy.org/">via</a>)

books ebooks writing futuremedia internet
march 2011 by dsankey

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Prophesies of McLuhan

"The future of the future is the present." Plus link to his early TV appearances. I love McLuhan.

ideas media futuremedia
february 2011 by dsankey

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Criterion jumps from Netflix to Hulu

in the US, obviously, as Canuck Netflix doesn't come close to having Criterion in it.

film tech futuremedia
february 2011 by dsankey

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Ubisoft on next-gen portable dev: 3DS / PSP2 first, 'the other machines' next

this is interesting: Ubisoft plans to launch games first for 3DS and NGP, followed by cheaper versions for phones. Sort of like the theatrical-followed-by-DVD window system in film.

games business futuremedia
february 2011 by dsankey

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Smart phones and tablets becoming video game machines

underwhelmingly-titled article has quotes from John Carmack on the topic I was just discussing - "Carmack said there’s a chance the new 3DS and NGP could be the last generation of specialized handheld game consoles ever built."

games phone iphone apple futuremedia
february 2011 by dsankey

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Should We Accept That Indie Film Is Now A Hobby Culture?

by Ted Hope, who produced some of the most significant indie films of the 90s.

film business futuremedia
january 2011 by dsankey

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This Rocking Lead Singer is a 3D Hologram

surely not the first time a fake /composite pop star became popular. Monkees, Milli Vanilli, Gorillaz...

music ideas futuremedia
october 2010 by dsankey

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PS3 Pushes Blu-ray Into Nearly 20% of U.S. Homes

just above the percentage that have Netflix. I read somewhere else that owners of Blu-Ray hardware are only buying 1.5 discs per machine, though, which is sad but reflects how obviously overpriced the discs are.

futuremedia film hometheatre tech
october 2010 by dsankey

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Netflix launches in Canada with limited selection

it's here finally - $8 a month. Selection does seem limited, especially new release films and TV series, but there is still a shit ton of stuff that I would watch.

futuremedia canada tv film internet
september 2010 by dsankey

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The Hot Blog: New Toys

David Poland on the cable alternatives like Hulu, Netflix streaming etc.

tv futuremedia film
august 2010 by dsankey

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BitTorrent Releasers Are The New Kids On The Piracy Block

inside baseball with the movie bootlegging crowd

film futuremedia tech internet
july 2010 by dsankey

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Does the Internet Make You Smarter?

Clay Shirky fights the enemies of the innernette

culture futuremedia internet ideas
june 2010 by dsankey

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iPad TV

lonelysandwich on the iPad as a new video experience, and the possible future of AppleTV. Reminds me of Lost fan theorizing.

tv apple futuremedia ipad
june 2010 by dsankey

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Ars Technica digs up the details of the P2P indie film lawsuits
film internet futuremedia
june 2010 by dsankey

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Playback scales back to online only

Canada's film/tv industry paper is closing its print operations, and laying off 18 people. There will undoubtedly be a lot more of this in the coming years.

film tv canada production business futuremedia
june 2010 by dsankey

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Wired Magazine’s iPad Edition Goes Live

farily nifty looking. (via <a href="http://funkaoshi.com">funk</a>)

ipad books ebooks futuremedia
may 2010 by dsankey

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Google TV

Big announcement at Google's currently running dev conference. So many questions: why a text search i.e. keyboard interface for a living room setting? What will the hardware be like? Will it ever come to Canada?

futuremedia tv google tech
may 2010 by dsankey

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Jane McGonigal Lives the Game

The Escapist profiles the world's most prominent ARG designer

games arg futuremedia
may 2010 by dsankey

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Millions of Americans cancelling or cutting back on cable

"One in eight Americans will cancel or cutback their pay TV service -- either cable or satellite -- in the next year, because it's getting so expensive, according to a major new study."

tv futuremedia
may 2010 by dsankey

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Ken Loach Films

on YouTube. He is going to add his entire filmography. (via MeFi)

film video futuremedia
may 2010 by dsankey

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Producers Guild Of America Agrees On New Credit: “Transmedia Producer”

or "trannies"

film futuremedia
april 2010 by dsankey

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The Death (Or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store
music futuremedia
april 2010 by dsankey

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Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past

"an archaic system called 'renting'." Genius. I've felt like this in HMV, too.

comedy video futuremedia
april 2010 by dsankey

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Commercials coming to video on demand

it was bound to happen.

tv canada rogers futuremedia business
april 2010 by dsankey

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How 'Avatar' changed the rules of deliverables

Cameron insisted that there be hundreds of different prints depending on screen size, brightness etc.

film tech futuremedia
march 2010 by dsankey

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Dollhouse Star Enver Gjokaj's New Webseries Channels Twin Peaks

This is a great idea - a show that's all recaps. Like trailervision in reverse. Also, this dude is an amazing actor.

tv web video futuremedia ideas comedy
march 2010 by dsankey

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Broadcast Yourself

"In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself." I will now go and sue myself.

google futuremedia youtube tech film tv
march 2010 by dsankey

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Variety Lets Two of Its Top Critics Go

including Todd McCarthy. Brutal.

film futuremedia journalism
march 2010 by dsankey

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Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop on Vimeo
future futuremedia ads internet ideas
february 2010 by dsankey

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Pirating the 2010 Oscars - Waxy.org

torrenting of Oscar screeners is way, way down this year

film futuremedia internet bittorrent
february 2010 by dsankey

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FRONTLINE: digital nation - life on the virtual frontier

online-viewable PBS doc examines the effect of digital tech on cognition & development

futuremedia future documentary video
february 2010 by dsankey

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Why The iPad Is Crap Futurism - io9

ok this shit is getting out of hand. Is Apple canceling Macs? No.

apple ipad futuremedia
january 2010 by dsankey

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The Millions: Confessions of a Book Pirate

fascinating interview that shows how dangerous it can be for big content corporations to go after pirates, as they are more likely to be enthusiasts motivated by the desire to share, not dudes with peglegs and scurvy. Also interesting (if common sense): there is less piracy the cheaper the book.

books piracy ebook futuremedia
january 2010 by dsankey

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