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On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 3:02:49 AM UTC-4, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Adam Bowie > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I guess it'd be totally out of the question to just run a news hour? >> >> There's no money in straight news. I may have my chronology wrong, but I > think the last prime time cable news show that wasn't personality-driven > was the one Brian Williams anchored before switching to NBC. > > >> 1. Barely any hotel or motel has any kind of understanding of aspect >> rations. They all have widescreen TVs, but mostly they're somehow >> stretching the picture wrongly even though it too is widescreen. And this >> has very little bearing on how expensive or not the room is. The best >> adjusted TV I came across was in a dirt cheap motel. (I'd have a moan about >> HD downgraded to analogue SD before it gets delivered to the room's HD TV, >> but that'd be too easy). >> > > This has to do with the type of feed the cable companies sell to hotels > and motels. Because they have to run through internal distribution > amplifiers, they aren't typically sent the latest and greatest signals > because hotel systems have to rescramble them to send to individual rooms. > In all likelihood, the cheap motel where you experienced decent TV was > probably due to them being too cheap to have their own dist. amps. so they > just paid for standard cable for each room. > >> >> 2, For the entire 29 days of my trip, I don't think I've seen CNN cover >> anything apart from that Malaysian plane. Right now, Anderson Cooper is >> probably bored to tears as he conducts yet another feature on it. They were >> showing how they found the Titanic earlier because that's relevant... >> Sometimes, they just make it easy for Fox to make fun of the "Plane >> Channel", >> >> Best Tweet I saw today was something along the lines of, "CNN has renewed > the search for Flight 370 for a second season." > > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
