McAdams On

The pitched battle for control of the TV continues with a $35 doodad that may be the most elegantly disruptive development yet.

As everyone who could have bought Apple stock in 2005 at $39 knows, it shot to more than $665 a share in August on rumors that the next new iPhone will be remarkably similar to the last new iPhone...

Election season is bearing down on us like a loud drunk in a piano bar.

I used to think a job in journalism would be downright amazing back when I was wearing steel-toed Redwings and swinging balled-and-burlapped shrubbery off the tailgate of an International.

Three disparate news items recently struck me as congruent. One described the flame-out of the BBC’s Digital Media Initiative.

Television is at the event horizon of an IP singularity. The singularity is where all content creation and distribution occurs on IP-based networks. The event horizon is where the chaos happens.

The $100-plus cable package includes dated movies, histrionic pundits, weather, shopping, assorted sitcom marathons and the members of ZZ Top hunting alligators.

I ask other people what they thought of 4KTV—fad or phenomenon? Xerxes thinks 4KTV is a snipe hunt. “Really,” he says, emphatic. “Who can see the difference?”