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Chris Albrecht

Bio:Chris has been creating, editing and developing content across the tech landscape for 15 years. He’s been with NewTeeVee for more than two years, and prior to that, he was Director of Programming for AtomFilms.com. He has spoken at numerous industry conferences and juried film festivals across the country.

Latest Tweets

  • The new trailer for HBO's "Big Love" is a big awesome use of Interpol http://www.hbo.com/biglove/
  • RT @hulu: @Hulu: So I Married an Axe Murder and The Larry Sanders Show http://bit.ly/4J5sik | ME: Bring on Shandling!
  • Badly Drawn Boy's "Once Around the Block" just popped up on shuffle. A forgotten gem.

My Focus

Set-top boxes
TV Everywhere
Convergence

Recent Posts

Have you ever wanted to see an independent film but were unable to because it’s only playing in New York and Los Angeles, places you don’t live? Or wished that you could experience a classic like “The Godfather” not in your living room, but on the… Read More »

Just like music, movies and TV shows, comic books are going digital. But unlike other media migrations, the jump from ink to bits isn’t an attempt to stem the loss of print sales. Publishers are experimenting with different approaches to presenting comics on the web as… Read More »

To some, a web site like Craigslist asking you to verify that you are indeed a human by retyping distorted, nonsensical words is irritating. But the next time you do it, you could be helping to fill in some historical blanks. NPR ran a story yesterday on… Read More »

Let’s just admit it: “Your Love” by one-hit wonder The Outfield still holds up, more than 20 years on. Its catchy melody is rivaled only by the inability to sing in the same high-pitch as the lead singer. But will its sing-along-ability be enough to get… Read More »

We’ve talked before that metered access is a boneheaded idea that is bad for innovation, bad for Microsoft and Google, and ultimately bad for you. Until today, the idea seemed like an eventuality, not an immediate reality. But then NBC and TonicTV launched a new service… Read More »

My weekend walks with the dog have turned from quiet reveries into trips through a neighborhood bazaar. Driveway after driveway is packed with garage sales and people selling old DVD players, lamps, old books, anything, everything. Part of this is a natural summer decluttering ritual, but… Read More »

If you were thinking of starting a set-top box company that delivers video content to the TV, let me stop you right there. There are already numerous players vying to dominate your digital entertainment future, and three of them are big names that you already know.… Read More »

Nails on a Chalkboard: The Google Chat Notification Sound

There’s a scene in the movie “Dumb and Dumber” in which Jim Carrey asks, “Do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?” And then he screeches at the top of his lungs. If that movie was made today you could easily substitute… Read More »

Viacom Now After YouTube Employee Info?

The latest skirmish in the ongoing Viacom v. YouTube billion-dollar lawsuit battle is over how YouTube employees used their own site. It’s been a nutty couple of weeks for the high-profile case. First a federal judge ordered YouTube to hand over its user data to… Read More »

Tour the Homes of the Future (Jet Packs Not Included)

When I told my colleague Stacey that I was going on a tour of Netgear’s home of the future setup, she asked if I would grab her a jet pack. Much to her (and my) disappointment neither Netgear nor HP’s “house of tomorrow”-type setups included personal… Read More »

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