AV Rant #289: George Lucas’ Garage
…is probably bigger than your house. We wouldn’t mind retiring there. There is something to be said for being the default, installed browser on an operating system. The thing that is said is that people are way too lazy to change even if you SUCK. This article has something to say about 4k but we can’t get over that M. Night is still making movies. Want to see the difference between 24 and 48 fps? Click here and start to agree with Tom. Or just continue being wrong. That’s okay too. This week in Netflix – privacy and your rental queue and the CW decides that to survive, it has to embrace alternative delivery methods. Tom thinks this has larger implications, Liz isn’t convinced. Tom breaks down the new Marantz receivers. Thanks for listening. Now, don't forget to:
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It wasn’t a Blockbuster; it was a neighborhood video store (this was 1987, before Blockbuster really took off). it was Robert Bork’s entirely nondescript video rentals which were leaked during his confirmation hearings (unsuccessful) for the Supreme Court.
A journalist managed to spin an entire story out of these essentially uninteresting rentals (which may have been his wife’s). http://www.theamericanporch.com/bork5.htm
There is an interesting moral here. You can discern something (or at least you can argue that you have discerned something) from the rental habits of famous people. And, if someone wants to be on the Supreme Court, one might argue that such insights are fair game. (Or not, but that’s another question for another day.) But what this has to do with companies maintaining lists of ordinary people is, I agree with you Tom, more than a little paranoiac.
Mr. Lucas would have a couple RED cameras instead of a digital SLR in his garage.