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IT and Hollywood: The reality gap

In the movies, all you need is access to the Internet to change someone's bank account or to launch nuclear missiles. We know it's all for effect, but how much is too much? by Toni Bowers

Tags: Information Technology, Hollywood, Liberty, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Toni Bowers

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Don't use conversational shortcuts when communicating

It's a communication no-no to assume that others will know what you're saying without your having to fully explain it. Here's how the experiences of others can shape the way they hear you. by Toni Bowers

Tags: Plate, Performance Management, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Toni Bowers

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Cracking Open the Roku Netflix Player

The Roku Netflix Player is a small set top box that delivers streaming video over the Internet into your living room in a manner so easy even your grandparents could understand it. We find out what makes it tick in this TechRepublic Cracking Open Photo Gallery. by Mark Kaelin

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Roku Netflix Player, Web Site Development, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Web Technology, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Mark Kaelin, Geek Gifts 2008, Netflix, video streaming, product photos, roku

Image galleries 2008-06-25

Photos: Panasonic rolls out Net-enabled plasma

The new high-end Panasonic PZ850 boasts a different HDTV experience, including Web capabilities. by CNET News.com

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Channel Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, CNET News.com, news, panasonic, hdtv

Image galleries 2008-06-06

Save your new favorite TV show...before it exists

As sci-fi fans, we have all felt the unbearable heartache of having our beloved geek-centric television shows heartlessly canceled well before they had their rightfully deserved chance to jump the shark. With some of the most promising sci-fi shows ever produced scheduled to debut later this year, fandom has taken...

Tags: Public Service, SH, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Photos: Sony's OLED TVs gain star status

New superthin prototype draws a crowd--including decor guru Martha Stewart--at the D6 technology and media conference.Sony''s ultra thin OLED (organic light-emitting diode) TV at the D6 technology and media conference in Carlsbad, Calif., on Tuesday. The television is less than the thickness of a credit card and will be on...

Tags: Sony Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, Photograph, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CNET News.com, news, sony, tv, oled

Image galleries 2008-05-29

Geek Trivia: Beyond the (Hollywood) stars

To hear the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce tell it, receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is equivalent to receiving an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, or Grammy (once again, no love for the Eisners, Nebulas, or Hugos). The iconic stars, which are embedded in sidewalks near Hollywood Boulevard and...

Tags: Star, Icon, Fame, Disneyland, Ali, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Rundown: Geek movies of summer 2008

In movie industry terms, the "summer movie season" actually begins before summer, on the first weekend in May (as in, this weekend, which is why we're resurrecting this post from March), and ends before summer, on the last weekend in August. There are 18 geek-centric major motion pictures scheduled for...

Tags: Film, Anime, Movie, Robots, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-04-28

T-shirt of the week: Toaster

This week's Geekend-approved item of apparel is the Toaster Shirt from Glarkware. This, my friends, is a prime example of a "stealth geek" shirt. To the untrained eye, it appears that the wearer is merely declaring a love for toast and/or retro-futuristic pop art. (There's a pop...

Tags: TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-04-25

My first comic book: What got you hooked?

Further evidence that the geek revolution is upon us, Entertainment Weekly asks 15 of the topic comic book creators working today what classic funnybook got them hooked on the medium. Fantastic Four #1 makes a couple of appearances on the list--which dates some of the creators, as it came out...

Tags: Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Google wants in to the television "white space"

Google failed to be a player in the FCC auction that recently ended. Indeed, it was described as the "happy losers" in the 700 MHz space, only having been able to secure "open" definitions to insure that third-party apps would have consideration in that space -- something that we...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Spectrum, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Federal Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Government, Tricia Liebert

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Comcast considers creepy new addition to the set top box

I have never been one of the tinfoil hat crowd in the past, but that could change --especially in light of the comments made by Comcast's Gerard Kunkel, senior VP of user experience, to reporter Chris Albrecht of NewTeeVee.com. Mr. Kunkel mentioned an experiment with different camera technologies...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Comcast Corp., TV, Camera, PBX Hacking, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tricia Liebert

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Two weeks with the Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick

HDTVs have been one of the hottest consumer electronics categories for the past several years; however, you don't need to invest in an HDTV to get HDTV content. Pinnacle has created the PCTV HD Pro Stick to turn your desktop or laptop into an HDTV. Considering that...

Tags: HDTV, Laptop Computer, Antenna, Pinnacle, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Why is science fiction considered a "geek" genre?

Our good friends at SFSignal must have run out of qualified candidates to to interview, because they asked Jay "The Trivia Geek" Garmon to answer the same question posed to Kevin J. Anderson, John Scalzi, Keith DeCandido, Carl V. from Stainless Steel Droppings, James from Big Dumb Object, and Angela...

Tags: Money, Geek, Science Fiction, Productivity, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for February 19

If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Quite a tail to tell," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...

Tags: Quibble, Dr., Radiation, Policies And Procedures, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Human Resources, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-02-19

If sci-fi geeks ran Hollywood...

A few weeks ago, our buddies over at SFSignal asked a bunch of top-flight sci-fi writers, editors, and bloggers what would happen if, say, a bunch of top-flight sci-fi fans ran Hollywood, rather than the usual collection of business-school rejects and soulless, jaded, film-school burnouts. Now that the Hollywood...

Tags: Hollywood, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-02-13

The $6 million home theater

I know this blog is supposed to be about practical gadgetry; however, this one is just too amazing and ridiculous to pass up. Audio Video Interiors has a feature on Jeremy Kipnis in its February issue. Jeremy is a record producer and sound engineer who has built...

Tags: Home Theater, HDMI, Projector, Goal, Video, Jeremy, Home Entertainment, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Marketing, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2008-02-08

What's in the official CES 2008 Press Bag?

See the treasures hidden within the official CES 2008 Press Bag. What, no Sony OLED TV? by Bill Detwiler

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, TechRepublic Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Bill Detwiler, off topic, ces2008, CES, swag, conference, expo, show

Image galleries 2008-01-29

EU telecommunications director not solidly behind Internet tax

At a Munich conference, European Union telecommunications director, Viviane Reding, said that a proposal by France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy to implement a tax on Internet and cell phone networks was not the best way to expand access to new media. From the International Herald Tribune: "I...

Tags: Advertisement, Telecommunications, Broadcaster, Viviane Reding, Nicolas Sarkozy, Internet, Taxes, TVs, Free Trade, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Planning, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tricia Liebert

Blog posts 2008-01-22

MST3K lives on as Cinematic Titanic, RiffTrax

For we many benighted Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans who have long cursed the day our beloved movie-mockery show was canceled, we have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that no, they aren't going to revive MST3K. The good news is that almost everyone who...

Tags: News, Cinematic Titanic, Cable, Digital Music, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Media, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-01-14