THE DOWN LOW

September 30, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Political junkies, fact checkers and Comcast customers rejoice -- last week's presidential debate and the two future ones, in addition to this week's vice-presidential debate, will be available on demand, courtesy of the largest U.S. cable company.

Comcast, using feeds from C-Span, is using the debates as the centerpiece to what it calls "Elections on Demand," marking more than 30 hours of presidential-election coverage, the company said late last week.

August 22, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Consider it a good month for Image Entertainment.

Last week, the home-entertainment distributor of independent films such as Sidney Lumet’s Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead and The Air I Breathe said its sales for the most recently completed quarter were the highest in almost three years.

The news got better this week after the company struck a deal to distribu...Read More

August 21, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Warmer weather may have cooled off the downloads.

That’s what consultant Strategy Analytics reported this week when it said second-quarter digital-media sales grew less than a percent from the first quarter after a 3.3% rise for the prior quarter.

Even Apple’s perpetually growing iTunes service, whose sales were up 7.3% from a year earlier, fell during the quarter, the consultant said.

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August 11, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

While it may be nearly impossible for computer users with older browsers or slower connections (like me, for instance) to find a clean video replay of last night’s insanely exciting 4 x 100 swimming relay, that hasn’t stopped people from flocking to Olympics-related Web sites to get their fix of the Summer Games in Beijing.

Sites like NBC Olympics and Yahoo Olympics saw their viewership almost triple between the day before the Aug. 8 opening ceremonies and the day after the ceremonies, according to a report by Nielsen Online.

More than 7.3 mil...Read More

July 15, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Those hardcore Japanese cartoons that were bookending your weekend? Now you can watch them any time you want.

Naruto, Bleach and Death Note, three manga, or graphic novel, titles that were turned into cartoons, are available on ...Read More