The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.
I basically went into broadcasting when I was in college because I knew that there was nothing like what I had in my mind on TV at the time.
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.
Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.
I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.
Media really excited me. As an undergrad, I majored in radio, television, and film and did internships with CNBC and CNN. My first job was at Sky News in London.
Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device. Controlling this screen has been the goal of major technology, consumer electronic, and telecommunications companies.
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.
To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
Sinatra's melancholy was the melancholy of mass (old) media technology - the 'extimacy' of the records facilitated by the phonograph and the microphone, and expressing a peculiarly cosmopolitan and urban sadness.
Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.
I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later.
The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of TV and interactive video systems and so forth, we'll also have the freedom to pretend to be a mass murderer for the evening. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer controlledthe TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.
I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.
It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.
