Greg Tarr

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Industries Are Ready For 3-D TV, But Are Consumers?

Ready or not, a new era of 3-D 1080p (for each eye) high-definition video for the home is just around the corner. Executives from the largest Hollywood studios to the top-ranked consumer electronics companies demonstrated at a 3-D Summit, co-hosted in Los Angeles by TWICE sister publication Variety last week, that they are hell-bent on making this happen, and for the near term at least, it... More

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BDA Blasts Harris Poll

The high-definition disc format war may be over, but the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) apparently is still defending its turf from the ghost of its dead and moldering rival. On Thursday, the group issued a response to a recent Harris Interactive poll that found “lukewarm” demand for HD movie disc players in general, while showing stronger sales for the gone-but-not-forgotten... More

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Kodak Retires Kodachrome

Despite the pleading of a popular ’70s Paul Simon song, Kodak announced Monday that it is taking your Kodachrome away.   The photo giant said that after fading sales and the shuttering of processing labs capable of handling the 74-year-old color film stock, it expects to run out of the final rolls by early this fall.   The one-time king of color film so revolutionized... More

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Taiwan Council: TV Prices May Be Going Up

More indications that LCD TV price increases might be on the way: In a recent blog I reported that display industry analysts had confirmed that LCD panel manufacturers had been raising prices to TV makers by a couple of dollars per panel on mostly smaller screen (sub-40-inch) product since January.  Those same analysts also offered the common opinion that those price increases were... More

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Did Big Brother Get GPS For The 2010 Census?

Fans of GPS technology might want to think long and hard before giving thanks for the driving convenience and business opportunities this technology has afforded them in recent years.   According to privacy advocates, the technology could one day soon be used (abused?) by potential Big Brother government types, courtesy of taxpayer dollars, for all sorts of nefarious purposes right... More