We're Not Who You Think We Are
Say what you will about Microsoft’s Zune launch, it didn’t cause anywhere near the death, destruction, and sheer mayhem that yesterday’s PlayStation 3 launch caused. Reports of shootings, thefts, and generally stupid behavior are flooding in from across America. The details make a George Romero film seem tame by comparison. We have apparently become a nation of PlayStation Zombies.
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I Want a Claymation Earl Edition
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Q. If you could have any job on the internet that you wanted, what would it be?
A. Writer for Television Without Pity.
I know that within the context of job interviews, that’s the wrong answer, and yet I keep giving it without even thinking. That’s because, pound for pound, word for word, snark for snark, Television Without Pity is quite possibly my very favorite website ever.
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“Super-Sized” Just Means “More Commercials” Edition
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On Tuesday Microsoft began welcoming the world to ‘The Social’. It’s Thursday morning and I still have no clue what ‘The Social’ is. I’ve scoured The Google for two full days to no avail. The Zune hype is making me dizzy.
If you’ve been following our Zune coverage here at Medialoper you probably know that we had pretty low expectations for the Zune. As unlikely as it may seem, I think the Zune launch may have actually turned out worse than we expected. Here’s a round-up of some of the Zune “highlights” from the past few days:
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Standing In Line for 3 Days to Buy a PS3 Won’t Make Your Kid Love You Any More Edition
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Most of the major studios have been engaging in massive corporate digitization projects for years now — while we like to make fun of them (and, boy, do we like to make fun of them), the truth of the matter is that the studios long ago realized that they needed to have all of their assets in digital format. Preferably a highly flexible format that allowed these same studios to further exploit their properties as new markets opened.
You see the fruits of their efforts as more and more classic programming finds its way to the magical world of DVD; we’re admittedly waiting for the studios to skip the step of physical media and just make this stuff available on demand, meaning online. But that’s another rant for another day. Today, we’re looking at old television series that are finding new lives.
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Darlings of Talk Radio Edition
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Several months ago, while dissecting the TV network upfronts, I applauded ABC’s decision to air Lost with no repeats.
After all, I had been through an entire season where the pattern of three new episodes, two repeats, one new episode, four repeats, clip show, one new episode, etc. had been driving me crazy. I thought that anything would be better than what we had just gone through.
Hoo-boy, was I wrong! Looked good on paper; in real life, not so much.
Standing on line to buy a Zune Edition
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