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There’s been a lot of talk about Louis CK directly marketing his recent concert online and how he made a million bucks at it in little over a week, and I think it’s well deserved. I paid 5 bucks for a video that at times is fantastically funny and other times (much fewer and further [...]

At least this time she’s calling it quits there isn’t a marriage involved. But, even worse, there is a child.

…and I do, too. Here are his well-founded reasons.

For anyone preferring DVDs over Netflix’s much smaller ‘Watch Instantly’ collection, you’ve just been given two more reasons to choose Blockbuster.

Meanwhile the rest of the world continues using Handbrake and other products to do exactly the same thing.  More.

Get ready.  Here’s a selection from a survey Netflix is sending around to customers: “Imagine that Netflix offers its subscribers the ability to instantly watch movies & TV episodes on their iPhone. The selection availability to instantly watch includes some new releases, lots of classics and TV episodes. There are no advertisements or trailers, and [...]

Golden Globes joke of the night from Ricky Gervais.  Here’s the video:

Twenty bucks says Steve Jobs is a big part of this one.  We’ll know when Apple shares their plans for the future of media either later this month or later this year. via Disney renegotiating Starz deal, might pull movies from Netflix streaming — Engadget.

Patently Apple picked up a very recent patent application for DVR technology likely to be employed by Apple any day now.  This promises to (if we’re lucky) finally blur the lines of distinction between local content sources.  In other words, perhaps when combined with the Home Sharing feature recently added to iTunes, we’ll no longer [...]

It’s hard to pull on over and customers and partners alike without one or both losing trust.  Now that Rob Glaser’s finally been fired from his CEO job at Real, many of us are getting an opportunity to reminisce over the many reasons we stopped caring about Real, Real Audio, Real Networks, Rhapsody, or any [...]