I said we would explore some more bad verse. This particular example is from 2007. I readily admit, the improvements in television technology are wonderful, especially after prices fell in line. “Improvements” really is a whopping understatement. My last cathode-ray television set had, if I recall correctly, a 33-inch screen, but it took two grown people to lift it. The picture, of course, was made up of a fixed number of raster-scanned lines. If you are of a certain age, meaning “young,” you might wonder why I had such a small TV. Well, a 33-in. screen (measured diagonally) was considered large. If you got much larger, the picture would look awful. Remember those huge projection TVs that started showing up in bars and in the homes of people with a lot of money and adventurous ideas about how to spend it? They were ghastly! You get the picture. To say modern flat-screen televisions are better is to state the obvious. Now programming? Well, I refer you to the above.
The Televised Was Not a Revolution
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55 responses to “The Televised Was Not a Revolution”
Joey Greene? Janis has a past. 😉
So as far as TV goes, the better the hardware, the worse the software, Jimmy? That’s why the only thing I have cable for is internet.
Today’s post: Spit my coffee out funny. ?
Nancy et al.: Agreed.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/gorilla-forest-corridor
Here’s a new webcam / gorillas in the DRC. Adult female. Peace,
Maybe youngish male.
Since no one else has said it:
Aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, me hearties!
Sorry to promote another syndicate’s strip today but it is appropriate:
https://www.comicskingdom.com/rhymes-with-orange for 9/19/19 (the last palindromic date for a while)
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are talking like “Normal People” today. Alas, if only they would talk like winners sometime.
Good news! They’ve announced that scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it sooner but it was hiding behind some other genes.
Tom
02/11/20
It is a while – or for some of us seems like the day after tomorrow
curmudgeonly ex-professor
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 5:58 pm | Reply
The Hellgate Bridge in New York City does connect the borough/county of Queens with the borough of Manhattan [which is the county of New York], but the section of Manhattan is Randall’s Island, which was never typically visited during my youthhood, 1940-1960. It is distinctly not what people visualize when hearing/reading “Manhattan”. Maybe it is more popular nowadays.
Lionel had a model of the bridge way back in the “Tin Plate” days
It’s been surprising to me when I watch old(er) movies and TV shows online, or cable, or from disk, that the video quality on a 19″ screen is much less important than it is on even a smallish 42″ HDTV screen. We watched “Grease” last night on a cable movie channel and it was much blurrier than I remembered AND the sound quality was odd. Who knew? After watching Grease, I checked online for a clip from “Welcome Back, Kotter” to see John Travolta. The one positive thing about today’s TV vs that from 40 years ago is that the production values have improved substantially– probably due to the increase in size and quality of TV picture available.
When I was a little kid, we sat across the room on the sofa and watched on a 13″ black and white set! I remember watching the moon landing from across from the sofa, and not thinking anything about how small it was. My computer monitor is bigger than that. I guess that the improved quality is better? Or, if it weren’t would I spend more time doing something else?
David Reaves
Along the lines of Size (doesn’t) Matter(s), I came across this article just yesterday,
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-modern-games-look-beautiful-on-crt-monitors
Keep in mind that the resolution on old standard tv was something around 400 or 420 lines while the HD today is 1080 and UHD and 4k are even higher. Trying to watch older shows that weren’t filmed is like trying to look at newspaper photos with a microscope. You enlarge the bits that comprise the image and lose sight of the whole.
Shiver me timbers! Technical treasure! Hoist the Jolly Roger and sail away!
Since you brought it up, TV is too stupid to waste one’s time on. It may be significant that several cheapy channels run old shows from the 50’s and 60s.
I thought that “improvements in television technology” for Jimmy meant that today’s TV’s are easier to draw. They also take up less space, both in real life and in the comic strip world.
HD has made TV quality better. A few years ago my now 90 year-old Mother-in-law got a flat screen and after trying to watch a ball game, I arranged to have the cable company provide her with HD channels. She thanked me as the quality was so much better. A couple of weeks ago we visited her and she was complaining about how hard it was to watch the weather channel because it was shrunk on the screen. When she got up to get a drink of water, I searched the guide and found the HD channel. I then had to re-explain that she shouldn’t watch any of the lower number channels as they are NON HD.
More worrisome is that she had the medical alert removed. She was complaining about the cost and I told her that I would pay for it. She got upset with me, accusing me of saying she couldn’t afford it. I kept quiet. The next day she informed my wife that she was going to go with the medical alert. We we relieved. Then the next day we find out that my wife’s brother convinced her that she should buy a smart phone because the medical alert companies are “a big ripoff!”
Praying that she doesn’t get light headed or has a stroke….
Check to see if you can lock out the non HD channels. That will solve that problem. As for the medic alert, you might consider getting one of the Wyze home security cameras and placing it where it covers the area she spends the most time. It has two way sound capability, so if you saw something questionable, you could talk directly to her. There is one that will rotate automatically to cover most of a room, stopping when something is detected. The company is also now making home security devices that tie into the cameras.
Don’t know when impala mating season is in S Afr., but these guys seem to be in rut.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/rosies-pan
Peace, here anyway.
We bought an OLED TV last year after seeing it on display at Costco. I have been blown away by the clarity of the picture. Even old black and white shows look better. Our old DLP TV bought 19 years ago went to the dump in pieces. Made me sad…nobody wanted it. And we bought it at a time when it was a financial strain, yet the recent TV purchase cost less than our 2000 purchase.
Ft. Collins Colorado had previously lost a 10th Circuit Court decision barring the enforcement of Ft. Collin’s ordinances against topless women in their city. The city has now decided not to appeal that ruling. An article I read says that has the effect of overruling similar ordinances in the other five states covered by the 10th Circuit as well…Kansas, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and OKLAHOMA.
Lake Eufaula beaches may have a *very* different look next summer. Also, I may finally get to run the “Bikinis Half Off” sale I’ve been considering at the boutique. 😉
Re 9-18-10 real-time comic:
The Hickey Haiku
she got excited
so no harm no foul I guess
unless…where was it
Re 9-19-10 real-time comic:
The Hickey Haiku II
even through time’s mists
I’m guessing Joey was a
very lucky boy
^9-19-19 real-time comic
Re 9-20-19 real-time comic:
Arlo’s Presumption Haiku
surely not after
everything transpired since
just a mercy date
Good Lord. Harvey-Imelda becomes a one-two rainfall punch for SE Texas. If any Villagers have been directly affected, we’d like to hear from you.
Photos from my daughter in Katy, TX show water levels very high. She said it was terrifying for awhile but water dropped rapidly. She also said Houston and I-10 was a mess. A situation I know well.
So we are worried about Sand and Loon again. My old subdivision Kingwood and Intercontinental Airport area went under again. How did Katy fare? My daughter didn’t elaborate.