Improving Your Company’s Video 101: Deinterlacing
In general, many dance companies have fairly low quality video archives. Often, low is an understatement. It’s fairly common for us to walk into a meeting with a company’s executive director or artistic director, and have them say something along the lines of “Why would anyone want...
Finally: Netflix on your TiVo
This was the marriage that was supposed to happen. The wedding was set, the caterer was booked, and someone paused a little too long when asked “Does my ass look big in these jeans?” and the whole thing blew up. The thing is, we had always hoped they would get back together. Recently, they’ve...
Coming Up: Battleworks @ DancenOw - Thursday
This Thursday, TenduTV will in attendance at the DancenOw/NYC festival to watch Battleworks, who will be honored and performing as part of the festival taking place at Dance Theater Workshop. Battleworks will be performing both a piece created ten years ago, as well as a new work. Those of you who are...
Convergence redux - It all goes to the same place, pt. II
From [Engadget HD] 1.) Netflix streaming is now available for Mac users. 2.) CinemaNow and Jaman have now partnered with TiVo. So more means of reaching more devices, which in turn reach more televisions. The headlines are all good, but there’s still the fundamental issue of network management...
What Sarah Palin can learn from Mika Salo
My efforts to stay away from politics fail me again. One of the current memes on the campaign trail is the conflict between the Palin and McCain camps (story originally found on Politico). In a nutshell, the storyline goes that Palin knows she’s on a sinking ship, and has started focusing more...
2 for the price of 1: New York Times double dips Achugar @ DTW
In reading today’s New York Times Arts Section, I had a weird sense of deja vu while reading Claudia LaRocco’s review of Luciana Achugar’s The Sublime is Us at Dance Theater Workshop. I just couldn’t shake the feeling that I had already read about it in same paper. After a quick...
Facebook virus making the rounds
A lot of dancers and dance companies use Facebook. Periodically, the internet novices among them forward some wall post talking about some guy who is a hacker, and to be careful about adding him to your friends list. Now, whereas those wall posts are easily disregarded, there are a few potential threats...
Another small step towards convergence with Netflix
DVD delivery service Netflix is taking yet another step towards home ubiquity, by announcing another Blu-ray player/streaming integration deal, this time with Samsung. Owners of the two latest Samsung players, the BD-P2550 and BD-P2500, can upgrade their player at no cost (the boxes already have ethernet...
McCain vs. YouTube, episode 2: Fair Use Follies.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has come out in support of the McCain camp’s attempt to pressure YouTube to exempt campaign ads from takedown notices. The brunt of their complaint is two-fold: first, that they are limiting free speech on the internet, especially given that not all of the clips...
Coming to TenduTV: Jonah Bokaer
It’s hard to describe the impact that Jonah Bokaer has had on the dance world over the last nine years. It’s not just the awards, the innovation, or the critical acclaim. As such, its harder to describe our joy at adding him to our growing list of content partners. We’re proud to announce...

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