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Japan's TV Broadcasts To Be All-Digital By 2011

Posted by timothy on from the thou-shalt dept.

Azuma writes "Officially, Japan will end Analog broadcasting by year 2011. Terrestrial digital television broadcasting services started on Monday, December 1st in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, with Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) and private TV stations broadcasting special commemorative programs. The services will initially be available to around 12 million households. Here is an article from Chinaview. The Daily Yomiuri reports that small local TV stations are at a disadvantage due to high costs of the new technology."

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  1. It's that time again ... by B3ryllium · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm a twenty first century digital boy ...

    I can't believe it, the way you look sometimes,
    Like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah,

    And I don't want it, the things you're offering me,
    Symbolized bar code, quick id, oh yeah,

    'cause I'm a 21st century digital boy,
    I don't know how to live but I've got a lot of toys,
    My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual,
    My mommy's on valium, so ineffectual,
    Ain't life a mystery?

    I can't explain it, the things they're saying to me,
    It's going yayayayayayaya, oh yeah,

    'cause I'm a 21st century digital boy,
    I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys,
    My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual,
    My mommy's on valium, so ineffectual,
    Ain't life a mystery?
    I tried tell you about no control,
    But now I really don't know,
    And then you told me how bad you had to suffer,
    Is that really all you have to offer?

    See I'm a 21st century digital boy,
    I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys,
    My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual,
    My mommy's on valium, so ineffectual,

    That's what I yearn for (21st century digital boy),
    Neurosurgeons scream for more (21st century digital boy),
    Innocence raped with napalm fire (21st century digital boy),
    Anything I want I really need (21st century digital boy),
    21st century schitzoid boy (21st century digital boy),
    21st century video boy (21st century digital boy),
    21st century digital boy (21st century digital boy),
    21st century sofa boy (21st century digital boy)...

    (props to King Crimson for the original tune)

    1. Re:It's that time again ... by Nasarius · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Nah, the King Crimson song is vastly different. Mr. Brett only stole a few lines of lyrics.

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    2. Re:It's that time again ... by Chatmag · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      King Crimson, one of my all time favorites, the first album only. Too bad they never carried the style forward. If I had mod points, I'd of modded you up for good taste in music!

      I've got a collection over 1K of albums collected from 1963 onward, and saw King Crimson in London when they first started out. Good memories.

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      Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com
  2. tsarkon reports i love watching hdtv by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    this is so cool i cant wait to watch it

    9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
    v 3.95.0
    $YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9steppro cess.sgml,v 3.95.0 2003/12/01 13:25:25 tsarkon Exp $

    1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. Defecation could be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
    2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda can use witch-hazel on mouth to soothe the horrific burns from performing so much analingus.)
    3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
    4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Doll/Shampoo/Soap-on-a-rope.
    5. Pucker your balloon knot several times actuating the sphincter muscle in order to work it in.
    6. Put a nigger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
    7. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
    8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's big!
    9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't check the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Appliance. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that IDE is better than SCSI because you can't afford SCSI. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for Everquest. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful star wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal can't submit. Fondle shrimpy penis while making a Yoda voice and saying, use the force, padawan, feeel the foooorce, hurgm. Yes. Yes. When 900 years you reach, a dick half as big you will not have.

    All in a days work with a Yoda figurine rammed up your ass.

    I HAVE A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS!

    GO LINUX!!

    Tux is the result after trimming Yoda's ears off so that Lunix people don't rip themselves a new Asshole

  3. Re:3.14 by flynt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Holy pi hole!

  4. Re:3.14 by seanadams.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 ...

    If gzip (lameness filter) had found a way to compress that by better than 25.5:1, I'd have been mightily impressed. :)

  5. uhm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bad Religion sucks unbelievable amounts of ass.

    Just FYI.

    Oh, and they're about as punk-rock as my grandma's station wagon.

  6. Re:Better than the Amerika by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've got a Glock21, AR15 and nothing to do. I'm also an alcoholic prone to blackouts and violent rages and my liver is about to blow so I've got nothing to lose. Suggestions?

  7. But Will This Go On My Permanent Record? by strelitsa · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The word is "gomi".

    Thank $deity for your vigilance. It is only by the tireless efforts of people like you that spelling errors are not allowed to pass unchallenged on Slashdot.

    I'll be better next time.

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    No mod points, no meta-moderating/Firehose/all the other free work Slashdot wants me to do.