Tag: dvd
WHERE DO I POINT THIS THING? by Geoff Lealand
Jun 16, 2016 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Technology | 0
I guess we have all had the experience of pointing a remote device at the wrong point of focus, and wondered why nothing was appearing on the screen. Or having sat on the TV remote accidentally, to create mayhem on the screen....
Read MoreVHS RIP by Brett Mills
Mar 8, 2016 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Funded Projects, News, Teaching, Technology | 0
Is VHS essential to the study of television? This is a debate I’m currently engaged in with the...
Read MoreREACTING TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE COMEBACK AND WEB THERAPY by Jennifer O’Meara
Feb 16, 2016 | Blogs, Streaming, Technology, Web Series | 0
For many, Lisa Kudrow will forever be associated with Friends (NBC, 1994-2004), the epitome of conservative network television. And yet, with both The Comeback (HBO, 2005; 2014) and Web Therapy (L Studio; Showtime: 2008—), the...
Read MoreMUSIC IN DVD AND ON DEMAND – SOUNDS THE SAME? by Liz Giuffre
Feb 12, 2016 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Commercial TV, Drama, Sound/music, Streaming, Technology, Youtube | 0
At the moment I’m editing a book on Music in Comedy Television. As part of the project I decided to go back to iconic pieces of comedy television I remember having had a musical impact, starting with 80s sitcoms (judge me, go...
Read MoreMAKING THE UNMISSABLE OWNABLE: ADVENTURES IN THE BBC STORE by Richard Wallace
Jan 7, 2016 | BBC, Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Drama, Public Service Broadcasting, Streaming, Technology, UK TV | 0
Although starting its operations as a commercial venture in November 2015, the new online BBC...
Read MoreWHAT’S IN STORE? by Richard Hewett
Nov 26, 2015 | BBC, Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Public Service Broadcasting, Publishing, Technology, UK TV | 0
Providing a certain sense of symmetry, my first blog of the academic year returns to the same theme I examined way back in July, when I looked at options for bringing ‘old’ TV into the digital age. Earlier this month saw the...
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