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CUBAN TO PROMOTE HDNET FILMS ON DELL COMPUTERS Friday, December 15 2006 
Buy
a
computer;
get
a
free
movie
in
high-definition
--
that
could
be
slogan
for
Dell
Computer,
which
will
bundle
movies
that
have
aired
on
Mark
Cuban's
HDNet
on
new
Dell
computers
sold
in
the
U.S.
Under
a
deal
announced
Thursday,
HDNet's
Shuttle
Discovery's
Historic
Mission,
produced
last
year,
will
be
packaged
with
Dell's
XPS
M1710
computer.
The
computer
is
intended
to
be
the
center
of
a
home
entertainment
system.
In
a
statement,
Cuban
said,
(more)NO HDTV OVER THE INTERNET, CUBAN PREDICTS Wednesday, November 29 2006 Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who owns the high-definition cable channel HDNet, predicted Tuesday that it will be many years before PC owners will be able to download high-definition movies from the Internet and play them on their TV sets. Writing on his blog, Cuban described an "issue that everyone seems to be missing" -- that there is no way for the average PC user to connect to an HDTV monitor. There are somewhat costly (more) |
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While most media companies, fearing copyright suits, discourage the general public from submitting unsolicited scripts and program ideas -- and indeed usually return such submissions or discard them -- Mark Cuban, the owner of HDNet, said on his website Monday that "one of the fun things" he does at the channel is reading ideas for new shows. Cuban, who also owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, gives this advice to anyone wanting to submit an idea to him: "I don't need to be pitched another cooking, poker, pimp my whatever, American Idol knockoff, nor do I want to hear another 'compete for a Mavs roster spot' or 'business plan competition idea.' What I would like to read are original show ideas. So post them if you got them."
