TV & Technology News
The television industry is changing. Nearly every TV you buy nowadays is a smart device with hundreds of apps, special features, and WiFi connectivity. These TVs are geared towards cord-cutters, customers who have left their …
In 2019, 40.2 million US households were without a paid cable TV service, and this number has continued to rise since. Cutting the cord is becoming a popular route to save money on monthly bills …
Google’s Nexus Player, launched in 2014, was a quick follow up to Google’s first Android TV success with the Chromecast. The now-discontinued Nexus player was a streaming device launched to compete with Amazon’s Fire Stick …
Discovery Communications, the parent company of the well-known Discovery channel, launched a virtual reality network in 2015. Virtual reality was (and still is) in its infancy. It has some potential to shape the way that …
Take a breath…this is a long intro and it’ll probably challenge any narcissistic garbage you picked up in school or around the scholastic-minded monkeys that throw hallow prose (or verse- ick) like so much shit. …
Summer is upon us and now is the best time to grab some friends, stock up on some buttery popcorn, and watch a movie in the theatre. Movies have a way of causing you to …
We all live busy lives. At the same time, each of us want to stay in the know with topics and trends that we are passionate about. That can be hard with the overbooked schedules …
Perhaps it was “The Shield.” “Oz,” though, certainly played a role…as did the “X Files.” And who can forget “The Sopranos?” These are some of the first shows with criminal protagonists. Oh, sure, there were …
The police procedural (pp) is diluted. Robots. Magicians. Psychics. Lucifer. All have made appearances solving murders and bickering with detectives. The genre itself is bloated, tired, and 20th century. That sweaty producers would turn to …
On any TV show, there’s always a main character the audience is meant to root for. That protagonist might not necessarily be a “good person” (see The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc.), but they’re reasonably charismatic …
In the first decade of the 2000s, HBO was undoubtedly the king of TV drama. No other channel came close to the quality of its programming. The Sopranos ran from 1999 – 2007, and The …
Maybe it was the surprise hit “Spartacus,” or “The Tudors,” or “Rome.” More likely, it was “Game of Thrones,” which in turn probably gained credence from “Lord of the Rings.” Whatever the root cause, cable …
Perhaps one of the most noteworthy trends in TV today is the adoption of movie licenses. Limitless, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Fargo, and Bates Motel are among the first, and most prominent, examples of this recent expansion. …
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