In a reversal of a ruling that favored film and TV studios, Cablevision may now introduce its contested digital video recorder. The new model stores programs on the company’s servers, instead of in a customer’s set, eliminating expensive hardware. “The ruling could have a huge impact on the relationship between pay-TV operators and programmers, who are concerned that cheaper DVR functionality will lead to accelerating advertising viewership losses.”
Tag: 08.05.08
Star Architects Ponder Ethics Of Designing In A Totalitarian State
Says Rem Koolhaas, when it comes to working in China: “‘a position of resistance seems somehow ornamental – that it is egotistical to think that the government cares what you, as an architect, think about its human-rights or environmental record and might change its policies accordingly.”
What’s Wrong With “West Side Story”?
Plenty, writes theatre critic Geoffrey Wheatcroft. He doubts its status as the great American musical, in score, lyrics, and plenty more: “these prosperous bourgeois liberals conjuring up the life of teenage gangs have all of Steinbeck’s little-man-where-art-thou condescension.”
A New Kind Of Playground?
David Rockwell usually builds playgrounds for adults – high-end restaurants, theatre sets and expensive stores. But, he wondered, is there a way to rethink the traditional children’s playground? His first project “will forswear slides and jungle gyms and instead employ an open multilevel space with large sand and water features, dams, cables, pulleys and an array of ‘loose parts’ — toys and tools that kids can use to alter the environment.”
This Year, TV Advertising Set To Overtake Newspaper Ads
But not for long: Web ads are hot on the heels of broadcast television. “Internet advertising will boast an 18.9% compound annual growth rate from 2007-12, compared with 2.6% for broadcast TV and negative 2.8% for newspapers,” according to a study.