Posts Tagged ‘ science fiction ’

NBCU Expands On-Demand Offerings With Retro Shows

Feb 21st, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: General

NBC Digital Entertainment and NBC Universal announced today plans to expand their on-demand streaming offerings, mining the wealth of decades of old television programming. Full episode streaming of “classic” series including “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “Kojak,” “Miami Vice,” the original “Battlestar Galactica,” “A-Team” and “Emergency” (Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth? Squeeeeeee!) will be offered on [...]



Actors’ Equity Union Claims First Rights Deal for Sci Fi Podcast

Feb 20th, 2007 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting

Actor’s union Equity purports to have achieved a world first, after agreeing a rights deal with the producer of an updated audio podcast of 70s cult sci-fi show Blake’s 7.
Equity said its ground-breaking agreement with B7 Productions would guarantee performers a share of net revenues generated from podcast downloads as well as from audio streaming [...]



The Future And You

Dec 8th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Citizen Media, Podcast Quickies

Stephen Euin Cobb, host of the 2006 Parsec award winning podcast The Future And You has announced a partnership with Jim Baen’s Universe, the largest SF&F online magazine in the world.
In every issue of the magazine, Cobb will write a regular column, What’s new in The Future And You, as well as a nonfiction [...]

 
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Podcasts: Liberal Media’s Assault on America?

May 16th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Citizen Media, Strange

Just when you thought it was safe to sync your ‘pod, ShellyTheRepublican has revealed that podcasts are “Liberal Media’s next Assault on America.”
According to the site, a “new danger has raised it’s demonic head: Invented by the Apple Computer company, the iPod is a device for receiving coded transmissions called Podcasts. This feature allows liberal [...]



Drexel University Prof Predicts iPods with Monster-Sized Memory Capacities

May 13th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Computer Hardware, Digital Music, General, iPods & Portable Media Players

Imagine an iPod that could play for 100 millennia without repeating a single song.
Science fiction? Not exactly.
Dr. Jonathan Spanier from Drexel University and his research colleagues and the University of Pennsylvania are predicting that nanotechnology will allow computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes (GB) of information.