Television – Rocknerd

Severed Heads: If I’ve Told You Once I’ve Told You A 1,000 Times (1987).

16 May, 201917 May, 2019 Industrial, Record, Television 5

From the cellulose nitrate days of music video.

Links: The Shakin’ Stevens game, Quincy Jones, death of the CD, Spotify songwriter credits, Snub TV.

9 February, 2018 Audio, Games, Links, mp3, R'n'B, Television 0

Now I’m trying to imagine an ’80s Quincy Jones game.

DRM is still rubbish: Denuvo broken in hours, Ultra-HD ripped, get-iplayer.

4 October, 2017 Film, Games, Links, Television, Your rights 1

No DRM that people were interested in breaking has ever stayed unbroken.

Soundtracks replaced with extruded substitute music product. If you’re lucky.

14 May, 201715 May, 2017 Film, Games, Television 1

Licensing is hard. Why not use some bulk filler instead.

(sex, uh, sex uh, crime, cry cry cry cry crime, crime)

Video: Go-Betweens, techno in six steps, a pop hit in four minutes.

13 May, 201713 May, 2017 Indie, Musician, Television 0

Some telly to finish your day.

Links: Studio 54, Rage, The KLF.

2 May, 20172 May, 2017 Dance, Industry, Links, Television 1

And Rocknerd’s wise words on Blockchain reaching a wider audience.

Cabaret Voltaire: Doublevision Present (1983).

16 January, 20179 May, 2018 Industrial, Record, Television 0

The Audio And Visual Quality Of This Programme May Be Of A Slightly Lower Standard Than Is Usual Today.

Links: Storytelling, the rump hi-res streaming consortium, the end of newspaper critics, Jim Bob.

15 January, 201718 January, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3, Television, Writing 0

Also, Wikipedia started sixteen years ago today.

Links: Smart TVs, mining the Internet Archive, new Popcorn Time.

1 January, 2017 Links, mp3, Television 0

Why Smart TVs are as terrible an idea as they sound, automatic categorisation of the Internet Archive and a new version of Popcorn Time.

Musician links, George Michael on Joy Division.

30 December, 20161 January, 2017 Links, Musician, Post-Punk, Television 0

How to read sheet music, a chord progression arpeggiator and George Michael versus Morrissey and Tony Blackburn.

Radio and television finally admit, in 2016, that they’re competing with the whole vast Internet.

29 September, 201620 May, 2017 Media, Opinion, Radio, Television 3

The mass media have suffered the effects of the Internet much in the manner of the record industry, as consumers, conclusively sick of their shit, withdraw their attention. Their worry has gone from piracy to … being ignored.

On this day in 2015 … gettin’ piggy with it.

20 September, 20169 September, 2018 Opinion, Sex, Television 0

At approximately 10:20pm BST on Sunday the 20th of September, 2015, the image of the Daily Mail‘s Monday front page hit Twitter. And Britain exploded.

SingularDTV: a “blockchain entertainment studio” using Ethereum for DRM on their totally boss sci-fi TV show about the Singularity.

19 August, 20169 May, 2018 Film, Industry, Television 7

SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry boondoggle. It’s part DRM snake oil marketing, part pseudo-Bitcoin scam and part sincere Singularitarian weirdness. You should not fall for it.