If you’re a TV watcher, you’ve sorely been missing your fave shows like I have. (Especially since broadcasters have their brains shut off and run crap instead of good classic shows.) But finally, the WGA strike is just about over (not completely over like Michael Eisner declared, but almost). The full deal is still being […]

The 2005 movie Crash, which won an Academy Award for best picture and an Oscar for original screenplay is coming to TV on Starz channel. Don Cheadle, who co-produced, helped with casting the movie and he’s likely to do the same with the series, in which he is expected to reprise his role as a […]

Largehearted Boy has a big list of DVD releases for this week, including many for TV series. [Largehearted Boy]
Microsoft is getting deeper into the entertainment business. They’ve award a new HDi grant to Jason Kohn, director of a prize-winning Sundance documentary. The grant is awarded in joint with the Sundance Institute and is worth about […]

Today was a big day for Apple, with Steve Jobs pushing his media mogul status into new territories: online movie rentals. This move has been speculated upon previously, so it’s really no surprise, but it’s still very important.
The company announced that they’d cut licensing deals with all top film studios. What’s more, the movies available […]

This is a roundup of recent movie, TV, and entertainment related news.
Dusty Cohl, founder of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) died Friday after a long struggle with cancer. The TIFF is often considered one of the most important film festivals in North America and always draws Hollywood’s celebs.
Bob and Harvey Weinstein reached an independent […]

Reasons to Go With Blu-Ray?
Gizmodo posts some great stills from the Lord of the Rings trilogy to show the difference between Blu-ray and regular DVD. Of course, a proper comparison would also show HD-DVD stills, except that New Line Cinema has gone exclusively Blu-Ray, as have several other big movie studios.
io9’s Dead Sci Fi Show […]

This is a roundup of recent tech news related to film and video.
What’s the Best HDTV Resolution?
With the coming change over to high-def TV broadcasting, anyone in the market for an HDTV unit is probably wondering which of the several resolutions to go with. News.com.au has an indepth article on HDTV and suggest that 1920 […]

Imagine a color display screen so thin that it’s like paper - especially flexible. E-paper displays have been in development for a short few years, but LG.Philips just came out with one of the largest: 14.3 inches on the diagonal. Except it’s only available in Korea, like many new consumer electronics products.
Soon, I hope. Now […]

Flatscreen TV manufacturers are reporting that consumers aren’t really buying many sets over 42 inches (diagonal). Is this surprising? Even though prices have dropped considerably, they’re still costlier than regular TV sets. And then there’s the impending changeover to HD broadcasting. And what about space in the home?
There are sets up to 103″ (even a […]

Robin Williams was Letterman’s guest last night and wow was he ever BORRRRRING! He used to be incredible at ad-libbing, but it was painful listening to him, wonder what the heck he was talking about. Letterman - who was sporting a ridiculous white beard - seemed to be wondering as well. Was Williams on crack? […]