What is Television?
After a long time of trying to come up with a simple answer to the simple question of “what is television?”, I decided to go the long way around.
Do you really know how much TV you watch?
An email newsletter I received claimed that "One in three millennials watch no broadcast TV".
I didn't believe it…
The Value of Video on an iPad
Most people have probably gone through the experience of ripping all their CDs at some point over the last ten years or so.
*Nobody* seems to be doing the same thing with DVDs.
Ripping a DVD collection
Ripping a DVD is pretty straightforward, if a little dull. Ripping a DVD collection is a bit different. Instead of doing something in the background for half an hour or so, you're looking at an ongoing job (or collection of small jobs) that will probably last for weeks. So, you probably can't be bothered to do this yourself.
But if you like the idea of your DVD library being stuff you could play on your phone/tablet/laptop on the go, then this post is about the sort of things that you will want to consider in advance before you get started.
The gradual death of 'physical media'
My songs, games, newspapers and magazines are now either downloaded or virtually disposable. So how long will I be stuck with a stack of plastic boxes underneath my TV?
[Archive post] I've seen the future of TV. It's 3D.
A post from the archives of SomeRandomNerd.com, from when I was still excited about 3D TV