While eating dinner tonight I popped in “Sideways,” which I haven’t seen in a while. I finished dinner halfway through the movie and went to my home workspace to resume working on some web sites.

My workspace seemed kind of quiet, and I debated bringing my laptop upstairs to finish watching the movie. Usually I have the TV going in the background, and sit in front of it with my laptop while coding and checking e-mail.

It then occurred to me that with my new Mac and new Mac screen, there was space enough to pop in the DVD and tuck it into a corner of the workspace.

Marketers have come up with the idea of a “third screen” - the idea that movies are the first, TV is the second, and other screens (like cell phones and other mobile devices) are the third. With much more real estate for my computer screen, it’s easy to fill with multiple media - admin screens for Wordpress, the actual site, coding in Dreamweaver.

I actually started using it with YouTube, catching up on the full seasons of “Spaced” via the Internet. Seems like a logical extension to pull shows and movies off of NBC.com, iTunes, and Bittorrent.

We’ll see how the third screen affects my productivity.