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How Paramount Steals My Life, A Few Minutes at a Time

October 3, 2006 by Jim Connelly

Warning: This DVD forces you to watch evil previews!!In our house, we watch an embarassing amount of TV on DVD. My guess is that we pretty much jumpstarted the entire market. Just me and Rox.

Me the second I realized that I didn’t have to keep my old VHS copies of the original broadcasts of The Simpsons (I started taping it from the very first show, since I figured out that something so awesome would never ever last, and once I got locked into it, I couldn’t really stop, could I?), and Rox, who has already purchased the entire runs of both Buffy and Angel. Twice.

We have a 5-disc carousel that is always full of various TV shows. For example, right now, we have:

  • Veronica Mars Season 2
  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 2
  • Arrested Development Season 1
  • Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5
  • Taxi Season 2

It’s this last one that is causing all of the consternation. Not because of the show, which is an all-timer (and we haven’t even got to Reverend Jim yet!), but because some marketing genius at Paramount has decided that they want steal my life, a few minutes at a time.

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Filed Under: Actual Mileage, Marketing, Television Tagged With: DVD, paramount

The Daily Loper – October 2, 2006

October 2, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Amazon.com Drops Search Engine Features
    Bizarre and peculiar.
  • DVD Jon Fairplays Apple
    The infamous DVD Jon has apparently reverse-engineered FairPlay. Now he wants to sell it to content providers. Who wants Apple hardware compatibility without iTunes? Lots of people!
  • Giving ‘Veronica’ an air of mystery
    Rob Thomas talks about his process for creating "Veronica Mars," which you may have heard that we like, and starts up again tomorrow night.
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Filed Under: The Daily Loper

YouTube and Orphaned Art

October 2, 2006 by Kassia Krozser

YouTube LogoSo we here at Medialoper have a friend named Joe. It’s not that Joe is a Luddite, but he’s maintained for years that this whole Internet thing is a fad. He’s warned us — oh, has he warned us! — not to get too comfortable with this whole online culture. Nothing good can come from it.

Then Joe discovered YouTube and a treasure trove of classic rockabilly videos (or whatever they were called before they were called videos). At least one ‘loper mother is sending her son links to old Buck Owens recordings. And so it goes. A lot of filmed material, stuff that formerly sat on the shelf, gathering dust, is being released into the YouTube wild.
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Filed Under: Copyright, Unexpected Results, YouTube Tagged With: Copyright, Terry-Teachout, YouTube

The Weekly ‘Loper – October 1, 2006

October 1, 2006 by Jim Connelly

While you were busy making daily lineup changes in order to win your Fantasy Baseball league, here’s what we were looking at:

  • The MPAA’s Final Solution to DVD Piracy: Two Doggies! – Sometimes the tactics that organizations like the RIAA and MPAA use to combat piracy seem evil, other times, they seem silly. This is the latter.
  • Woe Is Wal-Mart – Why the studios shouldn’t delay downloadable movies.
  • My Home Stereo Upgrade: The Roku SoundBridge – What’s amazing is that there aren’t more of these types of products out there. Seems like a no-brainer,but obviously, that’s wrong.
  • TiVo, Lower the Price on Your HD-DVR! – Seriously, the second this drops to a reasonable price point, I am snapping one up.
  • That’s What I Like: The MX-500 Universal Remote – Kirk talks about the remote that’s simplified his life.

Filed Under: The Weekly 'Loper

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