Re: OT: The forty minute hour - TV

On 17 Oct 2005 13:13:40 -0700, "Shuurai" <Shuurai11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Badger_S wrote:
>> Did anyone see the write-up on the ever diminishing amount of time that a
>> one-hour show gets these days (think it was on Yahoo news)?
>
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>
>Another thing that's annoying is the stupid logos at the bottom right
>of the screen... used to be these were mostly translucent and fairly
>small. Nowadays more and more are opaque and getting larger and
>larger.
>It really sucks trying to watch anything with subtitles when their
>freaking logo covers up part of the words; and just having this big
>bright blob at the bottom corner of the screen is annoying in itself.

<nods> It's presumably so that those recording it can't sell the show
without removing the logo, but a translucent logo is as visible as a big
red brick of a logo. My fav was the translucent partially animated logo
that the scifi channel used of the ringed planet. That was actually cool.

But now they suck.

>I've been considering a TiVO for a while now... I don't watch all that
>much, but there are a few shows I like and it's be nice to just record
>those and watch whenever I want. The ability to edit out commercials
>would be a bonus.

<http://www.desertsunonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051015/LIFESTYLES0103/510150320/1050>

or

http://tinyurl.com/ap43k

....has the original article.

-B

.

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