formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
A “vibrant” rebrand, a major bundling pact with NBCUniversal and a blockbuster $750 million deal to nab Formula 1 from ESPN signals a new effort for the tech giant to put its imprint on Hollywood. Source: Apple TV Revs Up … Continued
Sixty years ago, anthology series Out of the Unknown premiered on the BBC. It served up serious, one-off sci-fi dramas exploring our relationship with technology, among other things. Source: ‘The first time sci-fi was presented as serious drama’: The forgotten … Continued
Many industry executives look back at the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Paramount (then Viacom) against YouTube in 2007 as a signpost of an era when linear broadcasters and online video platforms just couldn’t play nice, let alone … Continued
Apple TV Plus blended live coverage of Red Sox versus Tigers with feeds captured on iPhone 17 Pro. This was not a promo reel but real cool angles inside a real broadcast. The label on screen told viewers exactly when … Continued
A century ago, on 2 October 1925, the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted a recognisable moving image of a human face. The original TV star was a young office worker, William Taynton, who returned to television 40 years … Continued
They are televisions from another era, replaced by the flat screen, high-resolution displays of the modern era. Yet cathode-ray tubes are still surprisingly in demand. Source: ‘You just can’t recreate that glow’: The people who hunt old TVs