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Apple Announcement Today…A DVR?

Apple will be making new product announcements today.  One of the rumors that is floating around is that we will have new iPods and that is pretty much expected.
One of the rumors that I have heard, on episode 550 of Buzz Out Loud, that wouldn’t it be cool if Apple announced a Apple DVR.  I took it to another level and thought,

…wouldn’t it be ironic if Apple has developed a Apple branded DVR, partnered with Tivo and people who have this DVR could download NBC Universal shows from Amazon’s Unbox.  Ummmmmmmmm.

This goes against Apple’s design history, but it may happen.

We will see later today.

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NBC Doesn’t Get it, Pulls Videos from iTunes

I’ll just say that NBC has lost a fan. NBC used to be on the top. It had the ratings and the best shows, but now they will be relegated to one of the lower tier networks.
They were already losing viewers and the only thing that was keeping them and some of their shows alive was iTunes. iTunes saved The Office and was allowing it to get revenue and prop up shows.

But they got greedy. For some reason they wanted to double what they charged on the iTunes music store. They have now left Apple and have gone over to Amazon’s Unbox. What, is that really a service? LOL. They will sell shows for the same price on Unbox, but will sell a lot less than they did on iTunes. No one uses the Unbox service and NBC will see a big drop in their revenue from selling videos.

As I have seen on many blogs and comments on blogs, people will go find it on the Internet and bypass the Unbox service. All NBC will do is whine that there content is being stolen, but nothing will happen and their viewership is going to go down.

When you abandon a service that has 80% of the market, whether that is good or bad, you can’t ignore them and that is what NBC is doing.

I think that we are seeing the fall of one of the greats in broadcast television. Unless they come crawling back to Apple sometime soon. Which I think will happen soon.

See the Webware blog: NBC says goodbye to Apple, hello to Amazon

See the Wall Street Journal story: Amazon’s Unbox to Sell NBC Shows

This whole falling out makes this ad by Apple on NBC Universal shows available on iTunes pretty funny.

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Flagpole Sitta Lip Dub by Vimeo Staff & Others

This video is great. I may have mentioned it before, I think on my Tumble log.
The video was put together by the staff who work for Connected Ventures and include the staff of Vimeo. My favorite video sharing site.

Take a look and let me know.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=173714&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri and Vimeo.

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‘Kid Nation’ – Television – New York Times

‘Kid Nation’ – Television – New York Times
This was pretty crazy to begin with and it gets even crazier.

When working with kids, Hollywood has strict codes that they must work by and I am sure that the kids were never in any danger.

I think some people are over-reacting to things.

Reality television is beyond its time and pretty stupid and this show has gone beyond sensible and reasonable.  But these claims go beyond that of reasonable.  It is just people trying to gain attention.  Nothing more and nothing less.

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Harry Potter Finale Worth It

I just want to say that I just finished reading the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, of Harry Potter’s trials and tribulations and I have to say that J.K. Rowling got it right and it finished the way it should.
I don’t think that it could have been better.  I also enjoyed the epilogue as it wrapped up the whole story and ensured who ended up with who, who survived, and that everyone was getting along well.

I am not going to say much more because my wife hasn’t finished reading it yet and she reads this, so she would kill me.

Thanks J.K. Rowling for the wonderful ride and entertainment.  I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to read this wonderful story.

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