Posts tagged television

Links for 2008-08-03

• Inflection Point: What’s the practical life span of DTV? [Robert X. Cringely] Broadband and Moore’s Law - the implications for television delivery, HD and programme scheduling.
• Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry [Technology Guardian] What’s wrong with the UK ISP and record companies deal and why Napster was offering a solution years ago.
• Filesharing: Television needs to wake up and smell the coffee [Technology Guardian] Why television is in an even worse situation than the record companies.
• Horribly good internet plot to kill off TV [Observer] Joss Whedon’s online show is fun and has implications for broadcast television.

Links for 2008-07-27

• Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer [BBC News]
• Announcing the Open Web Foundation [Open Web Foundation]
• Twitter searches for the next step [Technology Guardian]
• Wider, bigger, better [BBC Radio Labs]
• If you want to repeat Apollo, do it right [New Scientist Space Blog]

Links for 2008-07-11

• Guardian Media Group buys paidContent for $30 million [All Things Digital]
• Digital TV takeup growth continues [Guardian]
• Flickr on TV [BBCi Labs]
• Phoenix diary: Mission to Mars [BBC]
• The Faces likely to reunite [NME]

Links for 2008-06-28

• Puffbox sponsors WordCamp UK [Puffbox]
• Row brewing over listing of BBC Television Centre [Guardian]
• Domain name shakeup may bring new net goldrush [Guardian]
• Has London’s Oyster travelcard system been cracked? [Guardian]

Links for 2008-06-18

• Sky wins TV licence cash to aid digital switchover [Guardian]
• Net video - how not to be like TV [Guardian]
• Why REST? [The Cafes]
• Representational state transfer (REST) [Wikipedia]
• 11 search trends that may disrupt Google [ReadWriteWeb]

Social surplus

Excellent post by Clay Shirky.

A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken…

UK F1 TV rights change

Another good Grand Prix at Malaysia during the weekend.

Not as many thrills and spills as Australia but this was expected as the Malaysian track is a more conventional modern configuration.

The ITV streaming this time was the correct aspect ratio - not surprising since the coverage was 16 by 9 which was displayed in a 16 by 9 box on their website!

Shock announcement on the UK television coverage rights, moving from ITV to the BBC two years before the end of the current contract.

This is good if, for nothing else, there will no advertisements intruding into the coverage.

Bernie Ecclestone gives some background and there’s interesting analysis in The Guardian on the reasons behind the rights change.

Thrills and spills in Australia

I’ve been watching the live streaming feed of the opening Formula One race of the 2008 season on ITV.

The deal with Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula One Management, includes coverage of practice sessions, and is understood to be initially for a year.

From my connection to the net the feed was struggling at times - not surprising given the speed of the cars resulting in plenty of changing picture data.

It was disappointing the original 4 by 3 aspect ratio of the pictures from Australia had been ’squashed’ into 16 by 9 on ITV’s site.

The race itself showed the dramatic effect of the 2008 rule changes, particularly the removal of traction control - only seven cars finished, the lowest number in the history of the Melbourne race.

The race was certainly one of the most unpredictable and exciting Formula One race I’ve seen for a number of years and show the rule changes have put more emphasis on driver skills.