By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
If you’re a working professional, a good printer is one of your most essential tools.  At CES earlier this year, one of my quests was to find a multi-purpose printer that give great performance at a modest price – and just as importantly, was inexpensive to use in terms of consumables […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
Sometimes ya gotta be able to pull rabbits out of your hat when you’re on set, especially in the independent world.  DP Paolo Cascio was on location in New York, shooting the low budget feature “The Big Shot-Caller.”  He was shooting in Times Square and had been given permission to shoot […]

By Margie Barron
Movies for Grownups got their own awards show thanks to AARP the Magazine, which held a ceremony and handed out trophies. It was cool to see the best films of the year, which features the over 50 crowd, being honored .
Actually, the mature stars and movies had quite a year. Bill Newcott of […]

by Frank Barron
I remember when television shows had one or possibly two writers. Now there are at least a dozen on every program, half hour or hour.
So with great anticipation, I went to the Writers Guild of America West awards event at the Century Plaza Hotel to find out why so many scribes? The answer, […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
Almost a year ago, I conducted an interview with writer/director/DP Peter Hyams, who predicted that James Cameron’s “Avatar” would do for 3D what “The Jazz Singer” did for synchronized sound and “Star Wars” did for Dolby Stereo.  Maybe he’s right.  3D is certainly hot.  “Avatar” is setting global box office records […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
You never know who you’re going to run into at trade shows, which is one of the reasons I like them so much.  Take last week’s Createasphere Entertainment Technology Exhibition (formerly HD Expo) at the Universal City Hilton.   In addition to running into several of my P3 Update colleagues (the magazine […]

By Dyana Carmella
Createasphere (formerly know as HD Expo) will be underway this Wednesday and Thursday (February 17-18) at the Universal Hilton in Universal City, Calif., and there will be several enlightening sessions. I’m very interested in seeing what’s new in cameras and 3D and HD technologies, and sitting in on the innovative and inspiring conferences […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
In the world of electronics, lots of folks define “obsolete” as “no longer state of the art.”  By that definition, they freely claim that by the time a new product hits the stores, it’s already obsolete.  I couldn’t disagree more.  To me, a product like a computer is only obsolete if […]