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Exhibit to Run for Three Years, with New Items Added Periodically; The Television: Out of the Box Exhibit Highlights Iconic Series Ranging from The Bugs Bunny Show to The Big Bang Theory, Kung Fu to The Closer, Murphy Brown to The Mentalist and More; Exhibit Features Props, Costumes, Photos, Set Pieces, Video Clips and
More Plus, Photo Ops and Original Animation; Twitter Pitch: TELEVISION: OUT OF THE BOX (http://bit.ly/TVOTB_Twitter), a new exhibit from Warner Bros., debuts @paleycenter in L.A.
Burbank, Calif. (PRWEB) March 15, 2012
With Television: Out of the Box, Paley visitors will get an inside look at the creation and execution of some of the most memorable and successful programs in the history of the medium, from the founding of Warner Bros. Television in 1955 and its earliest beginnings with series such as ABCs Cheyenne, Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip to iconic programs from the 1970s and 80s, such as CBSs Dallas and The Waltons, and ABCs legendary Roots. The exhibit which features an accessible layout and interactive displays throughout continues on with NBCs Emmy winners ER, The West Wing and Friends, CBSs Murphy Brown and through to the present day with current series including CBSs The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men, TNTs The Closer and The CWs The Vampire Diaries, providing a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most memorable programming in the television industry. The exhibit will include props, sets from Friends and Seinfeld, clips, artifacts and interactive elements such as a walk-in animation cel where visitors can interact with their favorite animated characters.
This exhibit represents the first time a major studio has teamed with the Paley Center to provide an interactive experience for television viewers. The Paley Center for Media, founded in New York in 1975 and established in Beverly Hills in 1996, is home to one of the worlds foremost publically accessible media archives, housing over 150,000 programs spanning the history of television, radio and new media. Throughout the year, the center illuminates the holdings preserved within its archive by hosting exclusive panel conversations and Q&A sessions with the casts and creative teams behind both current and classic programs, including Glee and True Blood, and media icons ranging from Carol Burnett and Bob Newhart to Jimmy Fallon and George Lucas. These events continue the Paley Centers mandate to lead the discussion about the cultural, creative and social significance of television, radio and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public.
Ever wanted to see the alien head from V up close, or Tony Sopranos robe? How about Daisy Dukes actual Daisy Dukes? Nows your chance! With Television: Out of the Box, patrons can view these and other out-of-this-world costumes from series like Babylon 5 and Smallville, see classic Hanna-Barbera toys from the 1950s and 60s, and read suggestions on the Roots script from author Alex Haley to producer Stan Margulies. Fans looking for a more interactive experience can have their photo taken in a walk-in cel, where they can be photographed with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, or in front of a replica of the Central Perk set from Friends or an iconic Monks Diner booth from Seinfeld. With nearly 60 years in television, Warner Bros. is no Perfect Stranger to the medium and theres a lot of history to share.
Television has played an important role in American popular culture over the last six decades and Warner Bros. is an important part of TVs history, said Barry Meyer, Chairman & CEO, Warner Bros., who began his career at the Studio some 40 years ago in the television department. Im grateful to our partners at the Paley for providing the perfect environment for such an incredible exhibit. With all the memorable series represented here, everyone who loves television will be delighted, whether theyre already fans of these shows or discovering them for the first time.
Television: Out of the Box presents a major step for the Paley Center as it will bring a unique and unprecedented multimedia experience to the global community of media consumers, said Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of the Paley Center for Media. The exhibit demonstrates our mission to celebrate and preserve televisions best while also illustrating the importance of media in all of our lives. Warner Bros., as one of televisions most successful and prolific studios, is an ideal partner for us to collaborate with in this exciting new venture.
Television: Out of the Box is open to the public WednesdaysSundays, during the Paley Centers normal operating hours of 12 Noon5 p.m. You can follow the exhibit on Facebook (facebook.com/TelevisionOutOfTheBox) and Twitter (@TVOutoftheBox).
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WABAN, Mass., March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new research report published by Temkin Group, 2012 Temkin Experience Ratings, rates the customer experience of 206 large companies across 18 industries. This is the second year that Temkin Group has released these ratings.
The research, which is based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers in January 2012, includes ratings of 11 Internet service providers - AOL, AT&T, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, EarthLink, MSN, Qwest, Road Runner, and Verizon - and 10 TV service providers: AT&T, Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, DirecTV, Dish Network/EchoStar, Optimum (iO)/Cablevision, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon.
While the study rated 21 organizations across both the TV and Internet services space, only three companies received "okay" ratings: Bright House Networks (TV), Dish Network (TV), and Cablevision (Internet). Fifteen of the companies were rated "poor" and three received "very poor" ratings: Charter Communications (TV), Charter Communications (Internet), and EarthLink (Internet).
The average customer experience ratings for the TV services and Internet services industries placed them 16th and 17th, respectively, out of 18 industries in the study. The only companies to score lower were health plans. Out of all 206 companies in the 2012 Temkin Experience Ratings, EarthLink and Charter Communications were the two lowest-rated companies and eight of the bottom 19 companies came from these two industries.
"Terrible customer experience remains an epidemic within the Internet services and TV services industries," states Bruce Temkin, author of the report and Managing Partner of Temkin Group.
Temkin Group analyzed the changes between 2011 and 2012 and found that customer experience made a modest improvement in the TV services industry but had a slight decline with Internet service providers. Seven companies saw their Temkin Experience Ratings increase by more than five percentage points: Cablevision (Internet), Comcast (Internet), AOL (Internet), Dish Network (TV), Bright House Networks (TV), DirecTV (TV), and Comcast (TV). Only one company had a decline of more than five percentage points: Cox Communications (Internet).
The Temkin Experience Ratings evaluates three dimensions of customer experience:
This report can be accessed from the Temkin Group website at http://www.temkingroup.com or from the blog, Customer Experience Matters, at http://experiencematters.wordpress.com. The data can be accessed from the Temkin Ratings website, http://www.temkinratings.com.
For more information about Temkin Group, visit http://www.temkingroup.com.
About the author, Bruce Temkin
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Internet Service and TV Service Providers Earn Poor Customer Experience Ratings, According to New Temkin Group Research
By Peter Bright, Ars Technica
Microsoft is continuing to show off new features coming in its Internet Explorer 10 web browser, with a couple of posts describing its touch-friendly Metro interface and its enhanced security.
The current trend in browser design, led by Google Chrome, is to scale back the browsers interface so that it takes less and less of the screen, devoting more room to the web content itself. Windows 8s Metro design similarly removes window chrome to put the focus on content.
Metro Internet Explorer 10 is the logical conclusion of this trend: Most of the time it has no visible interface at all, leaving only the webpage visible. Its app bar, displayed by swiping from the top or bottom of the screen or right clicking the mouse, contains tabs, the address bar, and so on.
The tab selector, replete with pretty thumbnails. Image from Microsoft
The Metro version of Internet Explorer feels slick and comfortable using both touch and mouse and keyboard interaction. Particular highlights are the tile-based favorites view and the tab thumbnails, both shown to good effect in Microsofts post.
Internet Explorer 9 introduced some particularly taskbar-oriented features: support for pinning sites to the taskbar, and the ability for those pinned sites to create custom options in the Jump list. In Windows 8, sites can be pinned to the Start screen to make them instantly accessible. Sites pinned this way can even update their tile to show status notifications much in the way that real apps can do. However, the Jump lists are tucked away, only available from within Internet Explorer.
Pinned websites, with one showing off a notification. Image from Microsoft
One concern that this chromeless look raises is that of differentiation; Metro-style versions of both Chrome and Firefox are being developed, and its hard to see how they might look any different.
Security-wise, Internet Explorer 10 will include a new Enhanced Protected Mode. Protected Mode is the name Microsoft gives to its sandboxing technique. The current version, introduced in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista, creates a separate, low-privilege process for running JavaScript and rendering HTML. This low-privilege process has no write access to most of the file system. This means that even if there is a security flaw in the browser, the attacker cannot write malware to the hard disk.
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Internet Explorer 10: Touch-Friendly and Securely Sandboxed