Better TV?

As someone who who used to be in the trenches, I read about Intel’s attempt to improve the UX of TV with interest. Will the kids want to pay for it, is the question on my mind. Anybody seen the

TV Colonizing the Web

Two great companion pieces from last week’s Economist on the surprisingly good state of television. I have an excerpt from one below and the second one, here, takes a more global perspective and offers great numbers from all around the

Newsflash: Young Families Have a Ton of Entertainment Gadgets

Over the next five years, Forrester predicts that nearly 39 million homes will get their first HDTV. DVRs are expected to be in almost 31 percent of U.S. houses this year, with that number growing to more than 40 percent

Bright Spot in Ad Spend Numbers

Nielsen released first quarter numbers and they are just as horrid as you’d expect. Overall U.S. advertising expenditures fell 12 percent to $27.9 billion in Q1, compared to the first three months of 2008 Three of the worst ad performers