The nation’s six biggest names in the business (which Leichtman Research says accounts for about 95% of the market) collectively lost a little over 1.1 million customers during the three-month stretch ending in June, slowing down Q1’s cord-cutting pace…
訃報: 俳優の千葉真一氏。COVID-19感染が原因
俳優の千葉真一（本名：前田禎穂）さんが19日午後5時、COVID-19による肺炎が原因で亡くなられたそうだ。82歳だった。8月8日から千葉県内の病院に入院し、酸素吸入を続けていたが回復に至らず息を引き取ったとしている。千葉さんはアクションスターやスタントマンを育成する養成所JACを主宰、俳優としても「網走番外地・北海篇」「仁義なき戦い・広島死闘篇」「柳生一族の陰謀」「戦国自衛隊」「魔界転生」など数多くの作品に出演した。なお、COVID-19ワクチンは未接種だったとの報道が出ている（ORICON NE…
Design so dreadful you’ll be scarred for life
By the end of episode two, your Changing Rooms bingo card will be full to overflowing. There are room dividers, MDF panelling and feature walls. There is “colour!” being used to create “zones!” There is pink used in a room whose owner hates pink. There…
‘Folding Phones Are the New 3D TV’
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from Wired, written by Lauren Goode: Samsung’s newest foldables are even more impressive than the folding models that came before them. (The company first started shipping foldable phones in 2019, after years of de…
TV, emphasis on the
Doctor Who wasn’t the only British TV series to start out educational and become its own thing. There’s a reason 1985’s Letters in Wonderland was later renamed Trouble with T-Bag. The following seasons (bar the last) followed a modified formula revolvi…
Frank Herbert heard “shows within shows” and got excited
Do you like fake movies and shows that only exist within the fiction of real movies and shows? Then you will enjoy Nestflix, a catalogue of metafictional entertainment from Lynn Fisher.
コムテック製のレーダー探知機でCS放送受信を妨害。11機種約30万台を対策修理へ
総務省は5日、コムテックが製造・販売する受信設備（ZERO709LV）について調査した結果、約12.6GHzの副次的な電波を発射しており、CS放送の受信に散発的な妨害が発生があったと発表した。電波の強度に関しても電波法第29条の受信設備の条件を超過しており、基準不適合設備であるとする認定を行った。同社は該当する製造・販売の速やかな中止や利用者への使用停止の周知、そして再発防止策の検討を求めたほか、今年の8月からの1年間、毎月末の取り組み状況を報告するよう求めたとしている（総務省）。コムテックによると…
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech From TV, Not School
According to a survey from Consultancy Accenture, young people born in the 90s are less likely to be getting their information about tech careers from school and teachers than social media, TV series and film. ZDNet reports: Social media ranks top for …
Vudu and FandangoNow Merge Into a Single Streaming Service
Fandango has revealed that Vudu is merging with its parent company’s own streaming service, FandangoNow, to form a single platform that’ll take on Vudu’s name. The change comes more than a year after it purchased the streaming platform from Walmart. Ne…
Netflix Announces SpaceX Documentary On Civilian Mission Into Orbit
Netflix will stream a documentary next month which will follow the story of the world’s first private all-civilian space orbit. Sky News reports: The group will board a SpaceX capsule next month and spend three days orbiting the Earth, becoming Netflix…