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Matt Groening on Internet and Cartoons

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the let-the-man-speak dept.

prostoalex writes "Online Journalism Review posted an interview with Matt Groening, the mastermind behind The Simpsons and Futurama. Matt lists his favorite comic sites, talks about how Internet changed the cartoons, shares his view on Fox Network's idea to put Simpsons on cell phones, as well as his own plans for Web cartoons."

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  1. Re:Groening just became an ennemy of the MPAA... by glesga_kiss · · Score: 2, Redundant
    Technically speaking, region free in the USA would be a waste of time. Even if your DVD player could play the disk, you won't be able to watch it.

    The problem is the NTSC and PAL standards, which are a completely different on how the colour component of the picture works. If you don't sort this out, you'll be watching black and white. To fix it, you need either a multi-standard television, capable of using PAL and NTSC, or a DVD player and TV that has component video (e.g. RGB) which doesn't use PAL/NTSC to encode the colour information.

    Both of these things are pretty uncommon in the US televisions, but fairly common elsewhere. That, and the abundance of media, is why modded DVD players are rare in USA/Canada.

    Of course, the MPAA will probably tout this as a success story for region encoding.