YouTube's flirtation with widescreen images and high-definition has bloomed into a full-scale romance. Have a look, courtesy of our animal friends Big Buck Bunny (an HD toon) and Charlie the Unicorn (widescreen with the quality upgrade). Now check out the downside, via another online video critter. As you can see, YouTube today expanded to … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2008
CinemaNow: Now sold to Sonic Solutions
CinemaNow, one of the original online movie distributors, has been sold to Roxio parent company Sonic Solutions. The deal gives A/V tech outfit Sonic access to something like 6,000 pieces of premium entertainment content. The brand will live on as a unit of Sonic. The CinemaNow-Sonic Solutions deal was put at $3 million. CinemaNow has been … [Read more...]
Hulu chief: We’re still a start-up
Jason Kilar of Hulu.com got in five minutes of face time with CNBC viewers, saying his online TV service owes its success to one simple rule: "We obsess over every pixel." "We think that if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap that good things will happen," the Hulu CEO told CNBC's Julia Boorstin on Tuesday. "Users will adopt … [Read more...]
‘Little Rascals’: The kids are all right, still
"The Little Rascals" was the original after-school special, seemingly on a local TV loop that ran every day of the week. Those kids and that dog were everywhere. The shorts looked old even in the 1950s and '60s, and the adults insisted on calling them "Our Gang" comedies, but no one seemed to mind: These inventive kids from the past always were … [Read more...]
CBS goes mental, pulls full episodes
Fans of CBS' new shows "The Mentalist" and "Eleventh Hour" are letting the network have it after full episodes were suddenly removed from cbs.com "You're losing viewers like me," one "Mentalist" viewer warned the network on the program-specific message boards. Another griped: "Why tune in to CBS shows when the other networks offer full … [Read more...]