If you’ve ever seen any crime dramas on CBS you’ll know that nearly every show ends with some sort of sad, provocative music. The music scenes aren’t exclusive to CBS, although, they can also be heard on shows like House MD, Scrubs, and Grey’s Anatomy. The music scenes can make the show great, but could they use different music sometimes? Here are ten overused songs in television:
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Growing up I wasn’t known as the bravest kid. Always having nightmares and long nights under the covers. What I can attribute to causing the nightmares are these six bed-wetting people: Read the rest of this entry »

In the beautiful Seattle airport last weekend and I decided to purchase the most current issue of WIRED. Browsing through the countless hard liquor ads I found a celebrity startup section about half way through. To my surprise, the beloved David Caruso of CSI: Miami fame has a startup called Lexicon Digital. Now if you watch CSI: Miami you’ll know David Caruso plays a total cheesebag investigator who has difficulty keeping his shades on. From what I’ve come to know of Caruso, I was expecting Lexicon Digital to be very interesting.
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About a month ago I bought a 32″ Vizio LCD and for what I bought it for I really like it. It’s probably the best budget LCD on the market, but it surprisingly didn’t come with a digital antenna. Shopping around I found a lot of HD antennas all of which were pretty big and took me back to the days of bunny ears. While I was watching the recently bought Revision3 tech show Tekzilla they plugged Antennas Direct’s PF7 Picture Frame Antenna. I thought it was a clever idea and purchased the $50 dollar antenna.

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Being an avid TV watcher, I have honestly started to learn some things that I probably would have never learned through any other piece of media. Here is a list of 10 Things I’ve Learned from TV: The list is in no particular order

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Revision3, the popular Internet TV channel created by Kevin Rose (and friends), has started to include Google adsense on their site. The recent introduction of these ads is obviously to make money, but the ads sometimes seem odd and almost disruptive to the site.

A great example:

Google adsense is great for making money, but it can easily ruin the look and general theme of a site, much like Revision3. I wasn’t sure what Enbrel was, but after doing some research I learned that it’s medication for Psoriasis (and from my understanding a a pretty good one, too).

It might just be me, but when I see GIANT irrelevant advertising, I tend to look down on the site. I have however noticed that Revision3 is slowly getting more relevent advertising (Netflix, original shows). Or is Enbrel popular among the Internet crowd?

*I’m a hypocrite, on occasion, you’ll see a couple of (extremely) irrelevant ads. Women’s perfume anyone?

The Office, one of my favorite TV shows, will likely be canceled after this next season. The reason? NBC has decided to end it’s contract with Apple’s iTunes Store and start it’s own media distribution service where they can charge their preferred price of $4.99 per episode. This stunt will hurt, as well as continue NBC’s poor viewer numbers.

The Office has always received low ratings when it came to TV viewers, but if you’re an iTunes user you’d know differently. During the last season of The Office, at least three (0f the ten) “Top TV Episodes” were The Office. After every (tv) Office premier the episode would then be number one in the iTunes Store. The reasoning for NBC’s move is somewhat confusing seeing the success they’ve had with the iTunes marketplace, but it truly comes down to money.

Currently, The Office holds twenty spots on the Top 100 episodes on iTunes. That’s amazing seeing they are previous seasons. Another popular show, Heroes, also holds twelves spots on the list making NBC a predominant content distributor in the iTunes Store.

Low Rated shows like The Office, Scrubs, and Thirty Rock saw hit numbers in the iTunes Store, but with NBC newest project we will likely see them canceled within the next season. The iTunes Store is the best place to sell content because it pulls in the millions of iPod users that are willing to pay for great content. Setting up a website from scratch, charging double iTunes prices, and ending all other contracts is, in my opinion, they way to kill a network.

BTW- With the upcoming video-playing iPod Nano’s coming, the video portion of iTunes will be even more popular.

“Leaked” shots of the next generation iPod Nano have been posted all over the Internet and people are wondering why Apple made the upcoming incarnation, wider? After studying the blurry, leaked pictures (from 9to5mac.com); I started to understand Apple’s reasoning for the squished design.

Making the iPod wider allows for a bigger screen. Having a bigger screen would be perfect for playing videos on the iPod Nano, thus making TV shows/movies/games compatible with the cheaper, more widely appealing, iPod model. With more TV shows/movies/games selling on the iTunes Store, Apple will increase profits as well as increase their world domination in online media distribution.

Apple knows that when they sell an iPod, they are also selling a membership to the iPod-exclusive iTunes Store. This leads me to believe Apple’s anti-DRM remarks are purely for publicity and “DRMed” content is a must for Apple’s iTunes Store to survive.