Chris Albrecht

Recent Articles by Chris Albrecht

September 17, 2009

Don't Expect More Web Series on Xbox Anytime Soon

While Felicia Day and her Web series The Guild may have scored a great deal for distribution on the Xbox and other Microsoft platforms—which involved promotion to a ...

August 3, 2009

Will Viral Video Kill the Music Video?

The recent JK Wedding video and Jon Rawlinson's fish-tank video show that fan creations can spike sales better than marketing efforts. Would there be more viral ...

July 14, 2009

Seeking Sponsorship for Your Web Series

If the notion that all you had to do was create a Web series and advertisers would come ever truly existed, it's all but dead now. Getting a sponsorship deal for your ...

July 5, 2009

Five Apps I'd Like to See on My TV

When I was growing up, my parents referred to the television as the "idiot box" or the "boob tube" because of its power to sap my ability to do anything other than ...

June 16, 2009

Coming Quickly to Your TV: Gesture Control

Hillcrest Labs threw its hat into the motion-control game this week with the release of its Loop pointer to the consumer market. Until now, the Loop wasn't meant for ...

May 11, 2009

SCIFI Channel: Playing to the Tech-Savviest Fans

Nerds across the galaxy strapped on their pointy ears and beamed into theaters to catch the big budget reboot of Star Trek this weekend. Science-fiction fans may be ...

April 24, 2009

Get Ready to Prove You Paid for That Video

If 2008 was all about getting premium content online (thank you, Hulu!), 2009 is shaping up to be the year you pay for it, and Comcast-owned video portal Fancast is ...

March 27, 2009

Is Online Video a Threat to TV?

Two headlines from last week sum up the state of the online video/TV world nicely: "Free Online TV a Threat to Industry," proclaimed one. "Death Greatly Exaggerated: ...

February 5, 2009

Netflix: It Feels Like the First Time

During the Netflix (NFLX) recession-busting fourth-quarter earnings call last week, CEO Reed Hastings noted that "millions" of the company's subscribers are using its ...

January 23, 2009

Cheap(er) Entertainment During the Downturn

The year of hope and change is certainly off to a grim start in the tech world. Last week alone saw layoff announcements from stalwarts such as Intel (INTC) and ...