The Google Chromecast is a truly powerful device that will turn your television into an Internet content powerhouse! The second generation Chromecast was released in the last half of 2015 and now offers increased speed, reliability, and mobility. If you’ve been considering a device that can take your regular, boring television, and turn it into a smart television, then the Chromecast is one device that you should consider.This book really works as a buyers guide to help you determi...

Whether you're writing a novel, painting with watercolors, composing a symphony, or baking peanut butter cookies, creativity plays a crucial role in achieving satisfaction and excellence. But, for many of us, accessing our creative core is difficult, if not impossible. Now, acclaimed film producer Don Hahn offers his own unorthodox, yet highly effective methods for reawakening the creative spirit.

Canada's creative industries encompass book, periodical, and newspaper publishing; radio and television broadcasting; the music industry; video game production; filmmaking and video production; telecommunications; and the new media. These industries represent a major sector in the Canadian economy and exert a profound influence on many aspects of Canadian life.In Cultural Industries.ca, thirteen contributors take a thought-provoking look at the industries that form this im...

THE AUDIOPHILE’S PROJECT SOURCEBOOKBuild audio projects that produce great sound for far less than they cost in the store, with audio hobbyists’ favorite writer Randy Slone. In The Audiophile’s Project Sourcebook, Slone gives you—• Clear, illustrated schematics and instructions for high-quality, high-power electronic audio components that you can build at home• Carefully constructed designs for virtually all standard high-end audio projects, backed by an author who a...

So much of what is commonplace today was once considered impossible, or at least wishful thinking. Laser beams in the operating room, cars with built-in guidance systems, cell phones with email access. There's just no getting around the fact that technology always has, and always will be, very cool.But technology isn't only cool; it's also very smart. That's why one of the hottest technological trends nowadays is the creation of smart homes.At an increasing rate, people are...

Pocket Posh Guide to Great Home Video offers straightforward and easily understood advice on how to shoot just about any type of video footage.  This title includes illustrated step-by-step instructions and Roger Sherman's 10 Shots/10 Seconds tutorial.

An entertainment and tech insider—YouTube’s chief business officer—delivers the first detailed account of the rise of YouTube, the creative minds who have capitalized on it to become pop culture stars, and how streaming video is revolutionizing the media world.In the past ten years, the internet video platform YouTube has changed media and entertainment as profoundly as the invention of film, radio, and television did, more than six decades earlier. Streampunks is a firsthand accou...

Prefaced by celebrated television pioneer and The Bold and the Beautiful co-creator, Lee Phillip Bell, this special, limited edition book is an informative and fun photographic essay that explores the richly layered history of the world's most watched long-running, and award winning daily drama series, The Bold and the Beautiful**.**The book showcases in pictorial detail a year-by-year account of ...

LEGALLY TAP INTO ABSOLUTELY FREE SATELLITE TV!Replace or expand your paid TV services with Free-to-Air television programming with ease. Build Your Own Free-to-Air (FTA) Satellite TV System shows how to affordably put together your own subscription-free home entertainment center from start to finish.Find out how to choose the right components, set up a satellite dish and receiver, fine-tune reception, add local over-the-air stations, and go mobile with your FTA T...

Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name we give all kinds of moving images. We know it as an adaptable medium that bridges analog and digital, amat...

Beginning around 2003, the growth of interest in the genre of reality shows has dominated the field of television studies. However, concentrating on this genre has tended to sideline the even more significant emergence of the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. TV Formats Worldwide redresses this balance and heralds the emergence of an important, exciting, and challenging area of television studies. Topics explored include real...

Are you an Apple TV owner looking to get the most out of your streaming media device? Perhaps you're looking for solutions to certain questions you've had about the device like how to use AirPlay, how to find channels, or other tips and tricks? Well, this guide is here to help you with all those questions and plenty of great tips to truly unleash the power of your Apple TV!Hi, I’m Shelby Johnson, a technology enthusiast and an Apple TV owner. I love the Apple TV streaming media pla...