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Trimming Television to Sell More Ads
gambit3 writes: "Tech TV has an article about a device called a "Digital Time Machine", that does something called "Time Trimming", which is basically a way to cut single frames from different scenes in TV programs, which, over the course of a 30 minute program, can add up to 30 seconds, which is, incidentally, the perfect length to add ANOTHER commercial."
Take it from Rush Limbaugh, a guy who is completely deaf in the left ear (coincidence the "left" ear went out first), and almost completely deaf in his right. Sheesh
For what it's worth, I'm a broadcast editor.
It's worth nothing! Why would someone who works in the field know more than some lay open source zealot.
That's one of the dumbest proposals I've ever seen on slashdot. If there's no way for somebody to secure rights to a frequency in a given region then I'm going to stick up an antenna so powerful nobody in a 100 mile radius is going to be able to broadcast on any of the frequencies I do. There'd be no ads and no programming because without ads noone could afford to broadcast anything. Unless of course you only cared what the top 10% of the population had to say. Oh yeah, being a devoted internet devotee right now you only care what the top 30% of people have to say anyhow. Good job dude.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
NO REALLY, I WANT TO WHUP THEIR @$$
I KNOW IT'S NOT NORMALLY SLASHDOT'S POLICY TO CENSOR POSTS, BUT THIS POST NEEDS A SWIFT KICK IN THE BALLS!
(yeah, yeah, I know, it's yelling to put a lot of caps in the post. that's why i'm adding this, to try to offset malda's stupid lameness filter. what a cock bag. what a cock gobbler. what an *ass clown*. meh. i'm going home now.)