| Recap of Saturday, December 15
Mother Nature hitting us hard, knocking out power, closing roads and shutting airports. So how can all this weather actually be a good thing for the economy? Tobin Smith: A lot of people have forgotten that there is this thing called winter! It usually comes once a year, and there's industries built around it! So if we have a normal winter we're going to have actual winter industries do well, which is good for the economy! .
Hardware High-Def Sales Tip Towards Blu-ray Disc Following Warner ...
Warner's announcement at CES 2008 regarding its high-definition allegiance appears to have an immediate effect on the buying tendencies of the consumer market. Throughout 2007, Blu-ray Disc sales have consistently outsold HD DVD by a factor of around double; but starting the week coinciding with CES 2008 up to January 13, those numbers shifted noticeably further in Blu-ray Disc's favor. According to numbers from Nielsen, reported by Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray Disc sales were 85 percent of the high-definition split. The 85/15 split between the two rival formats represented the largest gulf yet, according historical data charted in the High-Def Digest forums. Of the top ten best-selling high-definition movies for the week, all were Blu-ray Disc. For the major new releases on each format, 3:10 To Yuma on Blu-ray Disc and The Kingdom on HD DVD, the former outsold the later by ten-fold.
That's Danny Billions to you
The feds bailed out Hibernia in 92' with loan guarantees and their purchase of the equity stake of Gulf Canada allowing the project to move forward. Williams happened to be in the right place at the right time when oil prices made their dramatic rise over the past few years. And yes Williams is a poor premier for using our national flag as a political prop. Posted 25/01/08 at 11:02 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Political coverage is making a comeback
One of the most disturbing media trends of the past two decades has been the continuous cutback in TV coverage of presidential politics.
Nowhere was this more apparent during the last two election cycles than in the networks' dearth of national convention coverage. The reason most often given by news executives: lack of viewer interest.
But this year, news outlets on the Internet and long-established cable TV channels have greatly expanded the amount of coverage, and viewers are responding in record numbers. And that, analysts say, is good news for the media and citizens.
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