From: Michael Roy Ames (michaelroyames@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 13:31:42 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>> (Michael M. Butler <mmb@spies.com>):
>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 00:11:26 +1000, Brett Paatsch
>> <paatschb@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> I've never used B/buffalo encoding myself. It seems to have a pretty
>> low coding density.
>
> However it's quite efficient compared to what I believe is the most
> rendundant comminication in history: the 2-hour final episode of
> American Idol 2003. Millions of viewers tuned in to two hours of
> high-quality, uncompressed broadcast video whose primary purpose was
> to convey a single BIT of information: Clay or Ruben (it was Ruben,
> for those of you living in a cave).
Lee,
Hmm... my cave seems pretty comfy ;)
The only way I know what American Idol is about was because I caught 3
seconds of a promo out of the corner of my eye when attempting to prompt a
VHS movie. Those three seconds included the graphical image of an idealized
human body falling backward, as if from a stage into the "crowd of fans".
My next exposure was yesterday, when I glanced at a tabloid sitting in the
rack of a supermarket checkout. It showed a picture of a skinny white guy,
and an obese black guy. I am not sure which was the winner, but for the
sake of the "crowd of fans" I hope it was the skinny one.
Or maybe SNL will be funnier if it is the obese one?
Michael Roy Ames
(Who watches about 1 hour of TV per month)
((Who has never used B/buffalo encoding either, yet, but is presently
contemplating a strikingly vivid mental image of the Buffalo Jeans Girl's
bedewed midriff... hmm, isn't this cave is getting rather hot?))
(((Who hopes, someday, to actually post on topic.)))
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