television

Twitter and TV integration: Good or bad?

jeffcutler — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:27:50 +0000

Here are a handful of additional thoughts from today’s TVNext Summit at Hill Holliday in downtown Boston. Specifically, one of the hosts, Mike Proulx asked about the mindset behind using social media tools as an adjunct to TV entertainment. This includes Facebook, Twitter and other tools.

Here’s how the panel responded...

We Watch TV FIVE HOURS a Day on Average... WHAT?

jeffcutler — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:00:19 +0000

Covering technology events is a breeze, but sometimes - as with today’s #TVNext panel in Boston at Hill Holliday - you sometimes run into a challenge. Today's event is a challenge for me because I've already heard some astonishing facts and it's only 10AM. We now watch TV five hours a day, on average, in America.

Let me paint the picture and then I'll share where that five-hour figure came from.

Sitting on the 35th floor at a State Street high rise, about 100 or so broadcast pros, media reps, social media folks and marketing people have gathered to hear where TV is headed. Specifically, they are anxious to find out the new ways in which viewers consumer content and embrace entertainment.

Which of these companies currently has the most annoying, nonsensical advertising campaign?

RightSedRed — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:19:58 +0000

Where are the 3D glasses for watching 3D on TV available around Cambridge?...

theszak — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:06:13 +0000

Where are the free 3D glasses for watching 3D on TV or on the web available around Cambridge or nearby?...

No more analog Fox25 TV

Ron Newman — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:43:41 +0000

Do you still have an old-fashioned analog TV that receives broadcasts from an antenna? If you want to watch Fox25 with that setup, you're out of luck. According to a LiveJournal correspondent:

I called FOX 25 a while ago and talked to a real live person, who confirmed that the antenna blew down in a storm last week. She went on to say that repairing the antenna would take as long as the countdown to the February conversion. In other words, analog folks can't expect a signal ever again.

Comcast screws up digital TV test

Ron Newman — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:30:43 +0000

If you have an analog TV and analog Comcast cable service without a converter box, and you turn on WGBH-TV-2 right now, you're going to see something very wrong: video of normal WGBH programming, accompanied by audio of WGBH's continuously-looping Ready for Digital TV special.

The picture says "This TV is DTV Ready" while the sound says, from time to time, "This TV set is not ready for the switch to digital TV in February 2009". Also, the picture is shrunk down and enclosed in a black box.

WGBH says this is a "Comcast engineering problem", not a problem with WGBH's broadcast or with your TV set.

Boston has 8 low-power TV stations?

Ron Newman — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:00:41 +0000

A Globe article about the upcoming digital TV conversion mentions this in passing:

"In addition, there are dozens of low-power TV stations, including eight in the Boston area, that are exempt from the changeover. To keep watching these channels, users will need converter boxes with an analog pass-through feature, but not every converter will include that feature."

These stations aren't listed in the Globe's TV section and probably aren't on most cable systems, so I didn't even know they existed. Where can people find out more information about them and their programming?

Hottest Boston News Women - 2007

irregahdless — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:13:39 +0000

It’s awards show season, and you know what that means! Time for me to pick the nominees for the Hottest Boston News Woman of the year, and for you to vote on them. We have a good crop this year, so scan/ogle them all closely, and then vote for your favorite at the bottom of the page.

As usual, this year’s winner will receive nothing more than the slightly creeped-out feeling, that people actually vote on things like this.

And without further ado, the nominees for this year's Hottest Boston News Woman, complete with voting.

Slop Culture

slopculture — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:01:34 +0000

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