TV Decoder: âFriday Night Lightsâ in Good Hands
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A scene in Allstateâs 60-second commercial at the conclusion of âFriday Night Lights.â (Leo Burnett USA) It is common knowledge on Madison Avenue that branded entertainment is becoming increasingly popular on television as marketers â worried about how easy it is for viewers to avoid commercials -Â­ arrange for their products to be woven into the [...].
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Several manufacturers are replacing bulbs in televisions with lasers and light-emitting diodes, which beam red, green and blue light rather than white light.
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To tune in, turn off that TV and head outside about 8:45 tonight, because the best show of the evening is going to be hanging in the sky.
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Some video buffs may want to relay their high-definition programming all over the house or take it with them on the road.
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In order to wrap your head around director Peter Bergâs gridiron saga Friday Night Lights, you need to approach it with a little statistical analysis.
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By Alan Pergament  It is deja vu all over again. Many of the pilots for the new television season -- especially on NBC and ABC -- are so good, that I'm having a "Lost"-like flashback to my first year as a television critic.
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Ahead: larger HDTV sets, better color, more playback and recording choices.
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Associated Press - It&#39;s a keychain that works like a universal remote control, but one that can turn almost any television on or off.
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Like x-ray specs, the invisibility suit or the ever-lasting doughnut, it sounds too good to be true. But a US electronics expert is selling a tiny remote-control device that he claims can switch off any television at the push of a button.
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The Mother of all Torches at a bargain price
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In some ways, they are still fumbling  about in the dark, except now at least there's a flashlight on  hand.
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The practicalities of next generation services "There's nothing decent on TV," is a common refrain in our house. Even though we have heeded the BBC adverts and invested in some Freeview boxes, it seems that even increasing the available channels from five to roughly 50 does not guarantee a cosy evening in front of the box. It wasn't much different when we lived in America, except that baseball was on most evenings; however, I am in a minority in my family being a fan of the sport.â¦
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By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe  Feb. 25--Rooftop antennas are back in vogue.   Many homeowners are trading up to expensive television sets and hooking  them up to old-fashioned antennas that can pull in the digital and  high-definition signals of local broadcasters for free.
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By MARK JEWELL  EVERETT, Mass. - Joey Nicotera's fascination with multicolored light bulbs bordered on obsession when he was a teenager.  He framed posters in lights and decorated his own Christmas tree.
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By Catherine Clabby, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 10--This time of year, when B.J. and Ashley Sintay step outside their Winston-Salem home, their Christmas lights flicker.   That's not an electrical glitch, it's a salutation -- from people as far away as Pakistan.
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Anyone who has cursed when their flashlight goes dead may have something new to beam about &#151; a flashlight that accepts batteries of different sizes.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  The idea is simple.  There's a convergence between big screen high-definition televisions, and photography as an Internet based activity. The purpose of this product is to smooth that convergence, to make it easy to set up a connection between the Internet and your television. To allow photography to come into your living room in new, powerful and easy ways. Think of it as the networked living room and you'll understand the vision. Some of the work I've done is technical, some is user interface, and some is working with media organizations to try to create a comfort level, or at least a spirit of Let's Give This A Try. In the latter case, it's much like working with the NY Times to get their news headlines and summaries to flow through Radio's RSS aggregator in 2002. Only this time we're working with photographs, and we think, the best news photographers in the world. And the pictures are beautifully high-def, they look really great when displayed on LCD and plasma screens. I use it with my 52-inch Samsung and 46-inch Sony. Of course what looks great on a wall, also looks great on a 15-inch Macbook or 24-inch iMac.   And while we connect those pros with your TV, it's equally important that we connect your friends and families too. One of the early testers found the pictures that Doc Searls uploads to Flickr a great revelation. Me too. That's because Doc is not only a great photographer, he's also a great story-teller. I find that I can follow the lives of far more friends visually than I can through text messages (which I love to do too!). Viewing great photos on bigscreen TVs, desktops and laptops -- that's one focus, but not the only one.  I wanted to provide a complete two-way tool for people who love Flickr, as I do.  Why Flickr? Well, they've got this great thing called an API. It makes it possible for people like me to make software that runs on a desktop computer that does things like automatically backing up your new photos every night, and providing a drop-folder on your desktop for quick uploads. (It understands tags too, it's incredibly simple.) We also made it easy to post pictures you like to Twitter. Why Twitter? It's that API thing again. They made it easy for us to love them. I wish more network service developers understood how powerful this outstretched hand is.  But that's not all! Not by a long shot. The reason all this will be so familiar to Radio 8 users is that it builds on the same engine, the one that was released as open source in 2004. So I've been working on other tools to drop into this base platform and once we have a good-sized base of people using it for "really simple photos" on the desktop, there will be other tools. And because it's an open platform, other developers can do the same. Not saying they will, but they can.  Anyway, I'm in the last stages, preparing the download site, and a FAQ, and tweaking the installer. One caveat, the first beta release is Mac only. That's because I'm doing all my work on the Mac, and this is a one-man show. Later we will work it out for Windows too, and with a bit more work and a bit more luck, for Linux.  It should be ready before the sun goes down today.