Those Swine At Comcast

[loCAtek]

We also have two more in the garage that aren't hooked up but are in perfect working order if you need one....

I'll take it! I only use comcast for the internet, and don't watch any television shows ...well, except the last seasons of 'Scrubs', which I missed when I first turned the cable off... but I watch DVDs on occasion. Does it come with one of those new fangled 're-motes' I've been hearing about?

[BoSoxGal]

I remember it because it fooled me, too. I was astounded at the lengths some folks would go to . . . then later heard the 'retraction'. They do an amazing good job with those 'fooling' pieces on NPR, and there are always tons of comments from listeners on how they were taken in.

Here is a link from a blog of another listener who was duped:

http://openlooks.blogspot.com/2011/04/h ... olish.html

[rubato]

Both new and old 3D works that way. The polarisation eliminates certain colours. The principle is the same as the old red and blue lenses.

No, the polarization method uses lenses which are polarized at right angles to each other for each eye. This way one signal goes only to the left eye and a different view goes to the right eye no matter what the color. The have two cameras set about an eye-width apart and then polarize the light for each one. A lens polarized vertically will screen out 100 % of light which is polarized horizontally no matter what the color.

The red and blue lenses use a different technique.

This was already old technology in 1980. But having spent time viewing slides of dissections made this way I have to say it gives a ripping headache after an hour.

yrs,
rubato

[dales]

Eagerly awaiting "holographic movies".

[Sean]

Television makes you stupid.

Each television in your house reduces your effective IQ by 50%.

I never owned a television until 1989 and since then have owned two, total.

Having said that, HD is far better (and we don't have it). We also have the cheapest cable package possible because we both have demanding jobs and commute so why pollute our brains with trash?

yrs,
rubato

You make a strong case...

[Lord Jim]

Television makes you stupid.

Each television in your house reduces your effective IQ by 50%.

I never owned a television until 1989 and since then have owned two, total.

Having said that, HD is far better (and we don't have it). We also have the cheapest cable package possible because we both have demanding jobs and commute so why pollute our brains with trash?

yrs,
rubato

You make a strong case...

Indeed...

And he started off with little enough to begin with...

[Gob]

Television makes you stupid.

Each television in your house reduces your effective IQ by 50%.

I never owned a television until 1989 and since then have owned two, total.

Having said that, HD is far better (and we don't have it). We also have the cheapest cable package possible because we both have demanding jobs and commute so why pollute our brains with trash?

yrs,
rubato

You make a strong case...

Gold!!

[Jarlaxle]

Yeah, that one was a hanging curveball, wasn't it?

[liberty]

One of NPR's April Fool's Day pieces this year was on 3D surgical implants. Wonder if that is the 'news' piece to which you refer, CP?

I hope so, I would like to think that there is a limit to stupidity.

[quaddriver]

Television makes you stupid.

Each television in your house reduces your effective IQ by 50%.

More if you are republican I bet?

[Sue U]

I hope so, I would like to think that there is a limit to stupidity.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein.

[Guinevere]

Pssst, Jim, when my Comcast/Xfinity on demand says FF is disabled (as when I was watching the Closer last week), it actually still worked. C'mon man, be a rule-breaker!

Eta: so far, FOX is the only ff forbidden channel I've found where ff is actually disabled

[Lord Jim]

Pssst, Jim, when my Comcast/Xfinity on demand says FF is disabled (as when I was watching the Closer last week), it actually still worked. C'mon man, be a rule-breaker!

We did try to FF Guin...it wasn't working....

However, I just tested it again...on the exact same episode....

And now the announcement is gone, and the FF works....

Go figure....

(BTW, I have to say I sure didn't see that episode ending coming....It looks like Delk had a stroke right before he announced his department reorganization, which is going to leave Pope as acting Chief....

Fritz will be so pleased.... )

[Long Run]

I was able to fast forward that episode of The Closer but didn't watch it for a couple of days after the broadcast. Sometimes the fast forwarding is actually disabled and sometimes it isn't even if they say it is. Intermittent reinforcement is the best kind I guess.

[Guinevere]

Last night I watched Monday's episode, it said FF disabled, but I was able to FF anything (including the FF disabled warning!).

I don't like the abrupt end of the Delk story line, and I wonder if they would have killed him off if this wasn't going to be the last season. I think the interaction between Delk, Brenda, Pope, Raydor and Commander Taylor could have made for more funny and tense moments, but to wrap it up, I assume they are going to focus on what the show does best -- showing Brenda closing cases any way she can.

And God, when did Fritzie become such a non-entity? He used to rock, now he's just mushy blahness.

[Lord Jim]

I didn't know this was the last season...that's a shame...

But that fact does create more suspense for the resolution of Raydor's investigation...

I figured Brenda Lee had to get off because otherwise there would be no show....

(Just like last season you knew that at the end of the day she couldn't get the Chief of Police job because that would end the show)

But if there isn't going to be a show, she could be in serious trouble, because she did in fact pretty much set that guy up to get whacked...(even though morally he certainly deserved it) she even let the gang member she nailed for two other murders in that episode make a bunch of phone calls before was put away so that he could let his homies know that this was the guy who had killed the elderly store owner and the little boy....

And that wasn't the only guy she sent into this kind of situation...I remember an episode where she had a corrupt Mexican drug agent booked into jail under a name she knew there was a contract out for....

ETA:

Well, I guess it won't be that suspenseful afterall...she must get off; there are still about twenty episodes to go:

TNT is reopening The Closer.

EW has learned exclusively that TNT just ordered six additional episodes of its veteran hit, extending its final season to prepare for a possible spin-off. The network expects to air the previously announced 10 episodes this summer, followed by five in the winter … and now another six in the summer of 2012.

The final six will be the swan song for star Kyra Sedgwick (Brenda Leigh Johnson), while likely introducing a new central character who will headline the spin-off.

The new show’s working title is…

Major Crimes.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/30/the-c ... al-season/

[Liberty1]

LJ, in reference to one of your comments on HD. There is absolutely no problem in high lighting conditions, at least for LCDs. I have a Sony LCD in the living room with full south facing windows and clearstories, no blinds or curtains and no glare or anything, with daily high altitude NM sunlight. I believe those issues were on plasmas.

[Gob]

I didn't know this was the last season...that's a shame...

Don't worry Jim, if it's US series there's bound to be at least another 147 "seasons of it."

Has this episode aired yet?

[Lord Jim]

Yes Strop, I have noticed this tendency among British TV show writers to run out of plot ideas after just a very few episodes...

What do you suppose accounts for this shortcoming on the British writer's part?

Are they just simply not as talented as the American writers, or are they so poorly paid that genuinely creative people aren't attracted to the work?

[Gob]

I agree Jim, this weird obsession with Brits over quality rather than quantity is very odd indeed.