Something else we don't need in the TV buisness... (1 Viewer)

[DeathStar1]

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Someone sent me this link, figured people here might find it interesting.
It's times like these, that I wish some wealthy buisness man, who's a big TV fan, would start up a small TV company, and show TV the way it was meant to be seen. Commercial free, Bug Free, and edit free.
Either that, or too bad someone can't start a pirate station up and broadcast TV series released on DVD following the same mantra above...

 

[Jesse Skeen]

Well, I wanted to work in TV for a long time, but decided NOT to because apparently the presentation quality no longer matters.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Compression technology, which has legitimate uses at TV stations,

I wish they'd mentioned what some of them were. I'm drawing a blank.

 

[ThomasC]

It's times like these, that I wish some wealthy buisness man, who's a big TV fan, would start up a small TV company, and show TV the way it was meant to be seen. Commercial free, Bug Free, and edit free.

what about tcm?

 

[Steve Schaffer]

Or Mark Cuban's HDNet. OK, there are very brief and very translucent bugs, and the occasional short spot for Zenith HD Plasmas, but overall it's tv done right. Content is sorta limited because he insists on broadcasting only true 16/9 1080i, but they have gone so far as to send HD video cameras to Afghanistan and have hired Peter Arnett for their news reports.

 

[Rex Bachmann]

Neil V wrote:

HA!

 

[Jack Briggs]

So Nashville has an alternative weekly?

I was put off by the grammatical and punctuation lapses in the piece, but the information is certainly interesting.

 

[JasenP]

How truly obnoxious. Shouldn't there be some sort of compulsary warning when this is done? I have seen the warnings before on TNT and the like.

 

[Tommy Ceez]

I’ve only been here two weeks,” Ramsey said. “I don’t think that can be the case.”

Give that man a raise! Ive only run the station for an entire pay period and I have no fucking clue what we do here!

 

[cwhite]

Time Warner Cable Austin is not carrying KXAN's high def signal? Is KXAN the only high def broadcast station in town?

 

[MickeS]

The only one I can think of is for movie presentations. If they can time compress a movie with say 2 minutes in 2 hours, then they wouldn't have to edit out 2 minutes to sell commercials.

Of course, they probably would time compress and still edit out 2 minutes and sell 4 minutes of commercials instead...

 

[Paul W]

Charles,
Looks like you have three stations.
HDTV Galaxy Station list

 

[CharlesD]

Compression technology, which has legitimate uses at TV stations,

I think the 'compression technology' here is refering to bandwidth compression, not time compression. If they are doing things like throwing out duplicate frames I would guess that sophisticated compression setup could be made to do just that.

 

[John Thomas]

My cable comapny carries two NBC stations, WSMV in Nashville and WMC in Memphis. It would be interesting to do a study on the differences in these two channels pertaining to this issue.
The odd fact about it is that I've noticed quite a better picture on the WSMV channel.