Re: AFI's Top 100 Movies

On Jun 21, 10:51 am, "Victor Velazquez" <victhr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"WQ" <w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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--- On the contrary, the more you have anything, the more that junk
will overwhelm the greatness.

I would think that the more of something you have, the more of the good
stuff you'd keep around, so while we continually produce the same ratio of
good to crap, we're also building up a surplus of mostly good.

--- You'll have to prove that math to me. If you look at TV alone,
can you honestly say that there's the same ration of good to bad in a
300-channel universe as there was in a 3-channel one? If you're only
watching 20 hours a week that you find worth watching now and you
would've been watching the same number of hours per week in the 3-
channel days, then that disproves what you claim. Even if you watched
only 5 hours in a 3-channel universe, the ratio of good to bad back
then would still be greater than 20 hours in a 300-channel universe
now, or .08% vs. .00033% based on a 168-hour broadcast week [or a full
24/7 sked] for every channel. So that means to equal 5 hours of
terrific viewing each week in a 3-channel universe, you'd have to
watch about 483 hours of terrific viewing each week now [or .08% of
60,400 hours]. Are there 483 hours of terrific viewing worth watching
week after week in the course of a regular season now? Of course
not. The junk has overwhelmed the good stuff.



Or did you imagine people watching "Armageddon" in twenty years?


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