danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote:
In<[email protected]> Pluted Pup <[email protected]> writes:
[snip]
I've never seen it, but I've heard that MeTV chops off
the top and bottom of it's shows for fake widescreen;
if that is acceptable then so is chopping the rest of
the show. So the outrage of MeTV begins with their
butchery of the picture, and if that bad engineering
passes, it's bound to get worse.
It's not "quite" that horrible. I'm looking at
a Perry Mason episode right not and... it's got
black bars ("letterboxing") on the sides.
HOWEVER, they're about half the width they "should be".
So it looks like MeTV is doing a roughly 1/2 "expansion",
for want of a better term. So yes, some top and bottom
is "off the screen", but not as messed up as with some
of the other folk.
(Of course I'd much rather a full letterbox, etc. But
I'd also like calorie free seven layer cake..)
MeTV seems to be slightly squishing, cropping off the top and bottom, and putting pillar boxes on the left and right, in a desperate attempt to
offend absolutely everybody.
There's the conspiracy theory that TV companies degrade
their programming on purpose to make the commercials look
better. MeTV is also doing that with it's content.
re: Vance Packard's book The Hidden Persuaders
In <[email protected]> Pluted Pup <[email protected]> writes:
[snip]
There's the conspiracy theory that TV companies degrade
their programming on purpose to make the commercials look
better. MeTV is also doing that with it's content.
re: Vance Packard's book The Hidden PersuadersYou mean like... The Super Bowl?
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On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:38:41 PM UTC-7, danny burstein wrote:
In <[email protected]> Pluted Pup <[email protected]> writes:
[snip]
There's the conspiracy theory that TV companies degrade
their programming on purpose to make the commercials look
better. MeTV is also doing that with it's content.
re: Vance Packard's book The Hidden PersuadersYou mean like... The Super Bowl?
--"This is a hoax, right?"
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
[email protected]
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
"It isn't."
You really work for the NFL, then?
On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:36:11 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:38:41 PM UTC-7, danny burstein wrote:
In <[email protected]> Pluted Pup <[email protected]> writes:
[snip]
There's the conspiracy theory that TV companies degrade
their programming on purpose to make the commercials look
better. MeTV is also doing that with it's content.
re: Vance Packard's book The Hidden PersuadersYou mean like... The Super Bowl?
"Yes."--"This is a hoax, right?"
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
[email protected]
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
"It isn't."
You really work for the NFL, then?
It's important that we "affirm ourselves", etc.
On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 12:42:45 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:36:11 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:38:41 PM UTC-7, danny burstein wrote:
In<[email protected]> Pluted Pup<[email protected]> writes:
[snip]
There's the conspiracy theory that TV companies degrade
their programming on purpose to make the commercials look
better. MeTV is also doing that with it's content.
re: Vance Packard's book The Hidden PersuadersYou mean like... The Super Bowl?
"Yes."--"This is a hoax, right?"
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
[email protected]
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
"It isn't."
You really work for the NFL, then?
It's important that we "affirm ourselves", etc.
Some people seem a lot like "MeTV" to me, though.
(It's not a "key" mythology for me, and I would be well quits with them.)
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:10:31 -0700, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 12:42:45 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:36:11 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:38:41 PM UTC-7, danny burstein wrote:
In<[email protected]> Pluted Pup<[email protected]> writes:
[snip]
There's the conspiracy theory that TV companies degrade
their programming on purpose to make the commercials look
better. MeTV is also doing that with it's content.
re: Vance Packard's book The Hidden PersuadersYou mean like... The Super Bowl?
"Yes."--"This is a hoax, right?"
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key [email protected]
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
"It isn't."
You really work for the NFL, then?
It's important that we "affirm ourselves", etc.
Some people seem a lot like "MeTV" to me, though.MeTV crops and distorts the picture, some people are like that.
(It's not a "key" mythology for me, and I would be well quits with them.)
On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 10:01:25 PM UTC-8, Pluted Pup wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:10:31 -0700, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 12:42:45 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:36:11 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:38:41 PM UTC-7, danny burstein wrote:
In<[email protected]> Pluted Pup<[email protected]> writes:
[snip]
There's the conspiracy theory that TV companies degrade
their programming on purpose to make the commercials look
better. MeTV is also doing that with it's content.
re: Vance Packard's book The Hidden PersuadersYou mean like... The Super Bowl?
"Yes."--"This is a hoax, right?"
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key [email protected]
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
"It isn't."
You really work for the NFL, then?
It's important that we "affirm ourselves", etc.
And I'll take "weak Reaganite beer" for... relatively little?Some people seem a lot like "MeTV" to me, though.MeTV crops and distorts the picture, some people are like that.
(It's not a "key" mythology for me, and I would be well quits with them.)
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