The Wire: 100 Greatest Quotes?
I’m only posting this because I love The Wire, but really you could pull a thousand individual quotes from the show and it wouldn’t do it justice. The issue with this compendium is it focuses on the...
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Watch the full House finale here (shot on a 5d Mark II)
The season finale of House was famously shot on a DSLR, specifically the 5d Mark II. FOX doesn’t post full episodes online until 8 days after they air on TV, which is why the season finale hasn’t been...
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The DIY Creative Class Goes Mainstream: The Neistat Brothers on HBO
I caught the new show from the Neistat Brothers on HBO On Demand the other night and found myself sucked in by the decidedly low-fi, autobiographical chapters. The show is appropriately named The...
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David Mamet on Drama (a Memo to 'The Unit' Writers)
This is an oldie but goodie. David Mamet wrote an impassioned memo to his writers on the now-cancelled show The Unit, laying out some principles of good dramatic writing. He wants three questions...
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A Brief History of Television
How we watch TV is changing every day, with cable TV subscribers cutting the cord in droves. But do you ever wonder how we got to this point, where commercial TV broadcasters (in the US) are afforded...
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What Will the TV of the Future Look Like? Updates for Google TV and Rumors...
When I originally wrote, “Google TV is what independent filmmakers have been waiting for,” in retrospect I forgot the “is” at the beginning of the sentence and the question mark at the end. So far the...
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Shawn Ryan on Writing for the Screen: 'Lead as Interesting a Life as Possible'
Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield and now The Chicago Code, is probably the best-known filmmaker to graduate from my alma mater, Middlebury College. Shawn broke into the industry after writing...
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'Saturday Night Live' DP Alex Buono Shoots On, and Quite Likes, the Canon C300
Alex Buono, Director of Photography for Saturday Night Live, has been shooting on DSLRs for quite some time (the intro for the show was in fact shot on a Canon 5D Mark II and 7D). Here, he gets his...
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Apple Unveils Television Set -- Oops, I Mean, IKEA Unveils UPPLEVA TV
The fact that 4K is the buzzword at this year’s NAB makes me think about the people I know who are less technically inclined and who, despite having an HDTV, are watching less than HD-quality content...
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Cinematography of 'American Horror Story: Asylum' Uses Classic Tools to...
If you didn’t watch last year’s premiere of FX networks’ American Horror Story, you missed out on some seriously daring television. There was sex (and scandal), there were scares (and some...
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4K TV Battle Heats Up: After Poor OLED HDTV Yields, LG and Samsung Could...
We consistently hear that 4K won’t be happening for a long, long time, especially considering plenty of broadcasters only made the switch a few years ago. I’ve been somewhere in the middle in thinking...
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Meanwhile, RCA Brings Actual Television to Tablets Free of Charge (No WiFi...
Yesterday, Google announced that YouTube was coming to your real tube in a big new way, by way of your Android device and WiFi. Today, RCA has reported something similar, but the opposite — sort of —...
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H.265 is Now Officially Approved, is 4K Streaming and Broadcast Just Around...
Technology’s progression sometimes moves with consistent momentum, and sometime comes in spurts. For instance, processors of mobile devices regularly decrease in size and price with relation to power —...
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Speaking of 4K Broadcast, Japan is Flying off the Handle: TV is 4K in 2014....
Several recent developments are helping to bring more 4K (or “more-K“) to your television screen than many of us might have anticipated, even a year ago. RED has big ideas for your home theater...
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4K TVs Just Got Affordable: New 50-Inch UHD Set from Seiki Can Be Had for $1,200
The biggest complaint about Ultra High Definition televisions is that their prices are still astronomical. Right now, if you want to watch 4K content, you don’t have too many choices in your home that...
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WGA Names 'The Sopranos' the Best Written TV Show of All Time
Just as they did in 2006 with their list of the 101 Best Written Screenplays, the Writer’s Guild of America has released their list of the 101 best-written TV series. While many screenwriters aspire to...
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Watch the Season 8 Premiere of Showtime's 'Dexter' Free Online
Many have argued that we are in a new “Golden Age” of TV, with some of the more interesting character development happening not on the Silver Screen, but on the small screen. One of the shows often...
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Missed the Premiere of Showtime's 'Ray Donovan' on Sunday? Watch the First...
We already shared one recent Showtime freebie, the first episode of the 8th season for Dexter. While that show will take a bit of catching up to do if you haven’t been following along, this one won’t...
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Show Me the Money: WGAW TV Writer Earnings Grow As Screenwriter Earnings Decline
Film is dead (good thing we shoot digitally now). Theatrical distribution is a pipe dream (good thing we have new distribution outlets). And less and less screenwriters get paid to write movies for the...
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HDMI 2.0 Now Official: Get Ready for 4K 60FPS & Bandwidth Up to 18Gbps
The HDMI spec has been steadily updated since its inception, with the last major update, version 1.4, giving us 4K support for the first time over one cable. While that is useful for many applications,...
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