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How much did High Def help NBC’s ratings for the Olympics? I would say it boosted them a great deal. While I did not think NBC’s High Def Quality was as good as I have seen, it was much better than past Olympics in Standard Definition. Mainstream sports don’t necessarily need HD to thrive but obscure sports are helped tremendously
I love watching videos online when I have time especially High Definition content. Even though it takes longer to load (better off downloading) it looks so much better than Standard Definition. Mark Cuban has often dogged online HD as “not really HD” since the same content would not be HD on a big screen HDTV. I don’t know if that
likely get the Cubs on HDNET
I have seen discussed on a few blogs the recent announcement by NBC that they will be producing television series that are directly financed by advertisers. These essentially take product placement one step further by having the story lines actually revolve around the advertisers product. A common comment I am seeing about this is how it is the "next step
As an extension of my research on podcast listeners I have also been reflecting lately on Internet video and TV. While the delivery of content over the Internet has some key advantages, there are also advantages to TV that are hard to replicate online. The difference is really in the style of interaction. TV is essentially a passive medium. You sit down, turn it on and watch what it gives you. You have a choice of channels, and can time shift using video or “Tivo”, but what is available to you to watch is chosen by the channel.
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Steve wrote a pretty accurate post that was entitled TV is Dead. Nearly everything he said in the post is true, and while I love Movies I do not watch any of the regular prime time TV series. Well except Dog the Bounty Hunter via my DVR. In fact a newsgroup I belong to was recently talking about Lost and Heroes. When I mentioned I must be the only person on the planet that has not watched either show. Their were a number of responses back from other people saying that they had never watched the programs either. It’s odd you would think with Lost being filmed here in Hawaii that I would take a bigger interest but it’s nice to know others don’t waster their life away in front of the TV.