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TiVo Premiere (Series 4) Impressions: Like IMDB On TV [TiVo]
Mar 3rd
TiVo may have invented time-shifting, but the past few years haven’t been kind to this company unsure how to cut a profit. Then, someone inside TiVo HQ must have realized, oh right, INNOVATION! That’s the ticket!
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Blockbuster to Close 500 Locations [Rentals]
Feb 26th
You might’ve recently walked the aisles of one of Blockbuster’s 3,525 locations while looking for a good make out movie. Five hundred of those locations are closing. [ MSN via Read more ...
The Formula For a Perfect Movie [Science]
Feb 20th
A Cornell University professor analyzed 150 of the highest grossing movies of the last 70 years. The more recent the movie, he found, the closer it adhered to the mathematical formula that describes the human attention span.
In the 1990s, researchers at University of Texas in Austin determined that our attention spans could be described by the 1/f fluctuation, a pattern representing the ebb and flow of our concentration over a period of time. Read more ...
The Formula For a Perfect Movie [Science]
Feb 20th
A Cornell University professor analyzed 150 of the highest grossing movies of the last 70 years. The more recent the movie, he found, the closer it adhered to the mathematical formula that describes the human attention span.
In the 1990s, researchers at University of Texas in Austin determined that our attention spans could be described by the 1/f fluctuation, a pattern representing the ebb and flow of our concentration over a period of time. In Read more ...
