THE DOWN LOW

July 15, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Those hardcore Japanese cartoons that were bookending your weekend? Now you can watch them any time you want.

Naruto, Bleach and Death Note, three manga, or graphic novel, titles that were turned into cartoons, are available on ...Read More

July 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

You might not have known that you wanted the first seasons of Punky Brewster and Swamp Thing to be available on iTunes, but you did. You really did.

Those two series, along with The Weird Al Show, Upright Citizens Brigade: Asssscat! and a few other titles will available on Apple’s iTunes service, courtesy of Santa Monica, Calif.-based Shout! Facto...Read More

July 10, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Playing Scrabble on a social networking Web site is probably not what the game’s inventors had in mind 60 years ago, but that’s where we’re headed.

Video-games publisher Electronic Arts and toymaker Hasbro said this week announced their partnership’s first foray into online gaming with plans to launch a Scrabble on Facebook. The word game, which is already available on Pogo.com, will have an application on the social-n...Read More

July 9, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

LOS ANGELES – Anthony DiClemente may never eat lunch in this town again.

Convinced that digital downloads will have the same damaging effect on DVD sales that they've had on CDs, the Lehman Bros. analyst woke up Monday morning and downgraded the entire entertainment industry, contradicting predictions of both the studios and some fellow Wall Street analysts in the process and likely making him persona non grata on backlots from Culver City to Burbank.

July 8, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Don’t count American University among the online-video fun police.

The university’s Center for Social Media yesterday put out a so-called Best Practices Code for what it says outlines what’s “fair” and what’s not in terms of online-video posts. The document’s likely a response to the proliferation of video posts and views, as U.S. viewers are watching about 65% more online videos than...Read More