Tag: TELEVISION

For a little over $8,000, you could be the proud owner of a 75-year-old Marconi television set -- the oldest working TV in Britain. The family of the set's late owner, G.B. Davis, is putting it up for auction later this month in London, where the set will likely sell for more than the $8K experts have projected. When Davis bought it, there was only one channel and one hour of programming every ...

Yesterday saw Day Two of the great showdown between man and machine on 'Jeopardy.' So, how did Watson do? Well, to say he spanked Jennings and Rutter would be an understatement. But the supercomputer did suffer an embarrassing setback during Final Jeopardy. The category: U.S. Cities. Watson's answer: "Toronto?????" Apparently its vast database of knowledge doesn't include third-grade geography. ...

We knew it was coming -- so to speak -- but now it's official: 3-D porn will soon be here! Penthouse has just announced that it will be launching an all-3-D porn channel in the second quarter of this year. "We started shooting in 3-D this past summer, and have significantly invested to perfect 3-D production quality," said Marc Bell, CEO of Penthouse publisher FriendFinder Networks. "Consumer ...

Conan may have lost 'The Tonight Show,' but that's fine with us. His NBC superiors probably wouldn't have green-lit the host's new Christmas set, which features Godzilla holding a candy cane, a robo-rabbi and Mr. and Mrs. SanMagnatron Claus, all of which come courtesy of microwave artist Kenny Irwin. (Yes, that's a thing.) Check out the set in action and Conan's interview with the creator after ...

The lengthy standoff between News Corp. and Cablevision has finally come to a close -- and just in time for the World Series. On Saturday night, the Fox network suddenly returned to some three million living rooms serviced by Cablevision, effectively ending a blackout that had begun on October 16th. The dispute had essentially boiled down to money; News Corp. wanted Cablevision to pay higher ...

The drama between FOX, its parent company News Corp and Cablevision continues to drag on. Cablevision's iO Digital Cable customers have been deprived of FOX programing for about two weeks, but it seems that people have, so far, survived without Glenn Beck and 'The Simpsons.' But, now, the standoff over broadcasting fees is encroaching on the World Series, and consumers simply won't stand for that. ...

Forget $h*! My Dad Says (and its abysmal reviews) -- ABC is turning the blog Awkward Family Photos into a TV series. We can't wait for a sitcom based on a bunch of other people's quasi-funny photos in which everyone's wearing cowboy hats or someone's pregnant behind a tree. Can't you just taste the Emmy? ...

People no longer sit and passively watch TV; they browse the Web, text message friends and play smartphone games, all while watching the latest episode of 'Mad Men.' Hoping to capitalize on that, ABC has launched an interactive iPad app that's compatible with 'My Generation,' a fake documentary series premiering later this fall. The 'My Generation Sync' app syncs with the action onscreen by ...

A new application called 'ivi' differentiates itself from other TV subscription services by letting users live-stream the major networks rather than cherry-pick shows from different channels. For $4.99 a month, PC, Mac and Linux users can stream 25 channels -- including Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and the CW -- on the 'ivi' app without experiencing any buffering delays. Too good to be true? It sort ...

Consumers may be willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money on tickets to 3-D movies, but, according to a new study from Nielsen, they're a lot less willing to drop hard-earned cash on actual 3-D glasses. As USA Today reports, Nielsen's study, titled 'Focusing on the 3DTV Experience,' involved 425 people, each of whom was given a pair of glasses to watch 30 minutes worth of 3-D television. ...

Well, folks, it's official. Humankind has hit the nadir of sloth. It's not because somebody designed this mechanical, hands-free channel-changer. We're pretty sure it's a joke that you can witness after the jump. No, the reason we have lost faith in humanity is that we want the mechanical, hands-free channel-changer. Hook us up with this thing, a snuggie and a KFC bowl of sadness, and we'll be ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. We saw a lot ...

It can be argued that the true measure of celebrity is whether or not a person has made a cameo on 'The Simpsons.' After all, just look at a few of the names who've appeared on the show during its 21-year-run on Fox. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has more than 500 million "friends," a movie based on his life coming out this fall and, according to New York Magazine, a featured role in an ...

Even if you're a hardcore sports fan, it's impossible to watch every game being broadcast. But you can rest easy, because there's a new site that will watch them for you and give a heads-up when there's an instant classic in progress. According to Lifehacker, Are You Watching This?! monitors each day's games, which (depending on the time of the year) can number more than 100, and uses an ...

Back when MTV actually played music videos, the network created an entirely new job title called the 'Veejay.' Basic requirements to fulfill the job included good looks, an ability to read cue cards, and a willingness to accept your inevitable irrelevance within three years. But now that MTV has become less music and more television, network execs have decided to reprise the media personality once ...