Rode snuck an interesting new member of its Rodecaster family onto the CES floor, and few people noticed. The Rodecaster Video Core brings all the features of the Rodecaster Video S to the company’s Rodecaster Pro or Rodecaster Duo interfaces, allowing them to do double duty for audio and video production.
CES saw only a very minor update to the Frame family, with the mainline adding 75-, 85-, and 98-inch models, and the Frame Pro now coming in a smaller 55-inch size. Oddly, only two of the seven mainline Frame models will support the One Connect Box — the 43- and 50-inch.
Rather than science and the modern world, the new channel looks back and tells stories from our past. The first episode is the fascinating tale of Zheng Yi Sao, the Pirate Queen of China. The art style is also quite different, more painterly. You can watch the first episode below.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck went on the Joe Rogan Experience to promote their new film The Rip, and ended up sharing some very depressing details about Netflix’s love of repeated exposition dumps and its approach to filmmaking in this age of constant distraction. As Variety reports:
“The standard way to make an action movie that we learned was, you usually have three set pieces. One in the first act, one in the second, one in the third,” Damon explained. “You spend most of your money on that one in the third act. That’s your finale. And now they’re like, ‘Can we get a big one in the first five minutes? We want people to stay. And it wouldn’t be terrible if you reiterated the plot three or four times in the dialogue because people are on their phones while they’re watching.’”
We’ve been promised an Atari-themed hotel for six years now. The project is moving forward and looking for fans to invest in a Phoenix, Arizona, location. But there won’t be a Vegas outpost. Spokesperson Sara Collins told the Las Vegas Sun plans were “explored” in 2020 and 2021, but nothing came of it.
[Las Vegas Sun]
