February 1st, 2010 11:12pm
by In.The.Dark
It seems that every day brings another article online or in print about how TV viewers are looking for a way out of their big subscriptions, which can easily run over $100 a month. Many of us are trying to figure out ways to stream the rich, high-definition and varied content we have access to on the Web to our flat-screen TVs – the ones we bought just before the …
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January 18th, 2010 06:15pm
by In.The.Dark
We used to call it “convergence” – the pie-in-the-sky goal of melding the home computer with the living room television, when the two communications options become one. That goal is closer to being realized with not one but at least 3 Web content players for your HDTV. We take a look at the Roku, first out of the gate.
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January 2nd, 2010 11:23pm
by In.The.Dark
Say what you will about the special effects or the story, it’s the star who gives Avatar resonance. And I’m not talking about Sam Worthington.
Who else is as associated with the sci-fi blockbuster as Sigourney Weaver? Once you get past Arnold Schwarzenegger, of course – and his career isn’t as wide nor held in such high regard as hers. I suppose you could add William Shatner, in his own time, …
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December 21st, 2009 06:05pm
by In.The.Dark
The concepts that O’Bannon explored – the alien inside, whether inside the space ship as in Dark Star and inside the body in Alien, the undead who “live” among us, and the paranoid paradox of Total Recall – became metaphors for our times…
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