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Inspired by Neil Young and Radiohead, Michael Moore will release his new film online and for free. The film, “Slacker Uprising,” follows Moore’s 62-city tour during the 2004 election to rally young voters. It will be available for three weeks as a free download to North American residents, beginning Sept. 23.
Granted, most of the recent TV buzz has been about, rightly, “Mad Men”: Who wouldn’t want to spend summer Sunday nights delving into the deeply misogynistic psychosexual underbelly of a Kennedy-era advertising agency? But in the big picture, the more interesting effort of the season is an Internet-only offering.
Movie fans will soon have yet another way to get online content through their televisions. Netflix has signed a deal to offer video streaming through a new LG Blu-ray DVD player. The device marks Netflix’ third online-to-TV partnership and will be the industry’s first Blu-ray system to offer instant streaming.
NBC is using the Olympics as a “billion-dollar research lab” to get a sense of how people are using different media platforms to experience the Beijing Games that begin Aug. 8. NBC hopes its research provides a comprehensive picture of how people are supplementing TV viewership with tools such as video streaming, video on demand and mobile phones.