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Posted by gaffo on 10/25/05 04:11
marika wrote:
> "Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> wrote in message news:Ioqu96.1051@wjv.com...
>
>>And that is why analog was good for many things - such as
>>emergencies. If there was any trace of a signal you could get it,
>>with snow, noise, etc., but the human brain being what it is was
>>able to get the usefull information from what was there.
>>
>>
>>> If all the broadcasters would get off their asses and get their HDTV
>>>broadcast antennas up, we could thumb our noses at the cable chumps
>>>that charge us at a rate that is twice what the service is worth.
>>
>>Several local stations are transmitting digital - but they are not
>>using HDTV except for some shows. Most are running up to the 4
>>channels permitted - and one is doing nothing but running weather
>>for 24 hours.
>>
>>The only one providing what I'd deem useful content on all 4
>>channels is a PBS station run by a nearby university that uses all
>>four channels for discrete programming.
>>
>>From what I've seen of the changes in local TV in this area -
>>dropping programs to get more 'paid broadcasts' aka 'infomorercials'
>>to make more money I'd suspect many will use the addition channles
>>for the same and eschew HDTV.
>>
>>One local station sometimes drops evening network programming to
>>run local programming as they can make more money from the local
>>commercials than that which they get from the network.
>
>
> Do they show any Madonna. She was on Letterman the other day and boy is she
> proud of herself. My sister has dubbed her a Kabbal-looni
>
> She said anybody who claims to be an expert in that couldn't expect to have
> the experience necessary
>
> I asked her about Methuselah
>
Medusa had the snakes
Methuselah had the years.
> But my sister said that Madonna doesn't have near enough snakes in her hair
> to qualify
>
> After the wake, dad took the remainder of us out for dinner,
> There was an Elvis Presley impersonator, wth blue flashing ears.
> I thought the formual only applied to shoes but apparently not
>
>
> mk5000
>
> "As I got closer I recognized him right away - it was Ted Williams. I
> approached him. "Morning Mr. Williams. I heard you passed away yesterday.
> Taking the final road trip?", I asked. "Yeah kid. I'm just oozing outta
> the picture like I oozed into it.", he replied."-foggy
>
>
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