Today’s links of interest:
- Analyst Sees ‘Modest Success’ for Zune
Well, it’s better than what they’re saying about the Putz — we’ve heard rumors that the batteries are being recalled before they’ve been manufactured. - Reviewing Mike Judge’s Idiocracy
Buried by its studio, we’ll all be watching it on DVD - ‘Veronica Mars’ Makes Warhols A Little Less Dandy
Apparently, they’ve slightly messed with the theme song. I’m still waiting for the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s version. And you should be watching "Veronica Mars" when it debuts next Tuesday.
The sad irony of home entertainment technology is that we love new media devices, but we hate their remotes. It’s not that the remotes are bad (although some are terrible), it’s that we hate the way they accumulate on the coffee table and add unnecessary complexity to what is supposed to be leisure time.
When I made the decision to be a DVR early adopter, I chose Replay-TV over TiVo. It’s just that I thought that the Replay was slightly better for the money. It wasn’t a Mac vs. PC decision: I wasn’t taking sides in some great cultural war or anything. At the time, if you said that you were getting a DVR, people had no idea what you were talking about, anyways.
About five years ago I started phasing CDs out of my life entirely. I digitized my entire music collection and moved the jewel boxes into the garage. I stopped buying new CDs and committed to only acquiring new music in a digital format (
The idea of true, pure, unfettered video-on-demand has been a movie industry chimera since the dawn of time. What if, executives say teasingly to their audiences, we gave you everything in our catalogs whenever you want it? You would never leave the couch.