The Walking Dead Season 3 Tonight @ 9 PM PST

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The wait is almost over, season 3 starts tonight at 8C/9PST.  For those of you with FIOS digital cable here in SoCal, its on tonight on channel 231/731HD.

Right now they are having a walking dead marathon for those of you that want to catch up.

 Don't have AMC on cable?  Amazon and Apple can help you with a season pass or episode downloads:

 

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GoogleTV is available on Pre-order - but, who needs it?

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OK, so the big question is why do I need it?

Frankly from what I can tell from advertising, I can't answer that question.  I can see it revolutionizing the set top box experience above and beyond what we have now, but from what I can tell its not there yet.

It's a set-top box for your TV that allows you to watch streaming programs from a few sources.  But it costs three times as much as a New Apple TV.  

It also lets me surf the web and watch TV at the same time - I have that, it's called a TV next to the computer or a PiP capable monitor.  iPad works great for that.

It has no built in DVR and requires you to supply it.  If it added Tivo like functionality to some of these somewhat crummy DVRs with no fees, I'd jump at it.  No promises yet.

Maybe when the android apps that come out for it next year it will all make sense.

Video on Google TV here.

 

America's Got Talent - Wow!

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There are a few shows that I deem worth watching.  This season's America's Got Talent is on that very small list - well so far I've only got through some auditions, but so far so good.

Start watching it from the beginning - all available online.  Get it on hulu.

You will laugh, you will cheer, you will cringe, you will rejoice, you will be disgusted, and some of you may cry, but you will love it!

Who needs color calibration?

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This might sound like a trick question, but the answer is almost everybody.

Everybody that cares about image quality including but not limited to:

 

  1. Graphics professionals
  2. Web professionals
  3. Video professionals
  4. Other design professionals
  5. Online shoppers
  6. Photographers
  7. Computer users
  8. TV viewers
  9. People that use their eyes

 

See what I mean by almost everybody?

Ok, so the professionals most of you would understand and expect it.  Imagine if you told your interior designer that you wanted that one wall to be fuscia, but ended up with hot pink?

Online shoppers, ever buy a jet black purse online only to find out that it was really a dark blue?

Casual photographers want to print out those family photos from vacation in the Bahamas but their prints look like they might have picked up malaria in Africa?

Now someone out there might say: Mike, I only shoot with B/W film, and plan to digitize my photographs, why would I need color calibration?

Color calibration includes the whole entire spectrum of colors, including the different shades of gray, darkness levels and contrast.

How do you get color calibrated?

Featured is the ColorMunki Photo - Monitor, Printer & Projector Profiler

Click here to find some devices you can use to get calibrated.