Category: Mainstream Media

Animal Noise show the problems with mainstream music and the BBC Radio 1 playlist

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Congratulations to unsigned band ‘Animal Noise’ for being selected to go on the Radio 1 playlist for the week beginning July 29th. Expect to have nice things said about you by the DJ’s, the big record labels to return your emails, and for that mythical ‘overnight’ success to suddenly appear. It’s just a shame that in a country with so many people online, so many people connected in small groups, so many opportunities to share music, it still comes down to a BBC manager in a London office deciding if you belong on a list.

Celebrate! The TV credits are going to grow again on the BBC

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Tony Hall, the BBC Director General on ‘credit squeezing’, where television programs reduce the size of the end credits to shoehorn in a trailer for the next program: Yes. Well, we’re changing it. It’s the curtain call. You want to make sure that the creative team get their proper bow. So we have got a new way of doing it, starting right away.” Now to deal with the voiceover interrupting the middle 8 of the Doctor Who theme.

A USB socket is the must-have TV accessory in North Korea

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Fascinating (and sobering) article on watching television in North Korea from New Focus International: The second feature is miniaturization. Ms Kim said that in order not to be caught by surveillance officers, people prefer small, portable TVs that are easy to hide. She said that the latest must-have item is a miniature TV with a USB socket. Kim Yoon-suk, who escaped North Korea six months ago, said, “Recently, people have begun trading USBs loaded with episodes of South Korean TV dramas. That’s because USB sticks are easier to hide than CDs. When I watch dramas on a miniature TV with

The Xbox One in the Sky

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Or Sky TV more precisely. Sources familiar with company plans have informed games industry magazine MCV that the box could include a Sky satellite tuner or act as a video recorder in the future, but we’ll also follow suit and suspect only the latter is more probable. The subscription from Sky could well be centred around an Xbox One and pre-installed Now TV or Sky Go application. Couple this with SmartGlass support and you’ve got a winner. Microsoft want to own the living room. So why not replicate the subsidy model used in mobile to gain an advantage over the