Unknown Star Wars clip in Stargate Studios 2018 Showreel

By P.M. Roanhouse
Film & TV / TV Shows

Stargate Studios is a well known American post-production studio founded in 1989 by cinematographer and special visual effects supervisor Sam Nicholson. In a recent demo reel for their clients released back in April of 2018 this clip of a star wars related video was at the end of it. It is not from any known star wars movie to date. Continue Reading

FiOS customer shows Verizon does serious throttling shenanigans with Netflix

By P.M. Roanhouse
Culture / Internet Culture / Internet Services / Tech Politics / Technology / Technology Policy / Televisions

FiOS subscriber Colin Nederkoorn, a startup CEO who resides in New York City, pays for FiOS Internet that promised service of 75 Mbps download and 35 Mbps upload. However, his Netflix video streams were limping along at just 375 kbps (0.375mbps). Which is about only 0.5 percent of the speed he’s paying for.  So on a lark he decided to connect Continue Reading