Wednesday November 23rd 2011 was a very interesting online news day. Not so much for the actual news story – but rather what followed. The Twittersphere was abuzz earlier in the day after a helicopter crashed at Auckland’s Viaduct Basin while installing a fake Christmas Tree. Video coverage of the installation work was at the time being webstreamed live by the tvnz.co.nz team. It’s an event you can never imagine free-to-air television affording live coverage [...]

Embattled broadcaster Tony Vietch pleaded guilty today to a charge of ‘reckless disregard causing injury’ and in doing do drew to a close of what he must surely hope will be the end of the long drawn out saga of he said / she said. Or is it? Watching TVNZ’s coverage of the Veitch aftermath tonight I could only but think of the numerous angles savvy journalists will now seek to explore to extend the story [...]

It seems main stream media are finally catching on to something many of us have been doing for months. Watching our TV content on the Internet.

I’ve been spending quite some time now looking at the whole HDTV thing… and man it can do your head in to start with. For starters you need to suss the LCD vs plasma thing out and the guts of this is plasma is better at rendering better motion (left to right) than LCD, and it’s also better at colour contrast than LCD. On the downside plasma has in the past been associated with larger [...]