Pondering the relationship between participation in shows like Dora and Diego that repeatedly request responses and actions from viewers and the likelihood of susceptibility to mob mentality actions later in life.
If a child is highly responsive then does that make them more like to "lose" themselves in a mob of charged members? Are children being conditioned to be sheep?
Oddly appropriate today on the 30th anniversary of the mass "suicide" at Jonestown.
Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
11.18.2008
5.21.2008
File Under: You Got Your Stupid in My Business Plan
Techdirt: ABC Still Excited About DVRs That Disable Fast Forward despite the patent fact that NOBODY will buy a DVR with a basic feature disabled when the next model on the shelf does not have that basic feature disabled. DUH!
How do they figure on penetrating the market with these crippled machines? By force and legislation. And that works really, really well in a free market economy.
Besides, is there anything worth watching on ABC anyway? I can't think of anything at all on the station much less something worth watching.
Way to push yourself to the margins, ABC.
How do they figure on penetrating the market with these crippled machines? By force and legislation. And that works really, really well in a free market economy.
Besides, is there anything worth watching on ABC anyway? I can't think of anything at all on the station much less something worth watching.
Way to push yourself to the margins, ABC.
4.09.2008
The Day the Tivo Died
It was with great sadness and a quiet hard drive that our Tivo expired last week. It had been struggling to work and had become difficult to watch so it wasn't a huge surprise but one morning it spent all day trying to power up unsuccessfully.
The strangest thing is how much of an impact the loss of the Tivo has made on our lives. Now, all of a sudden, we need to pay attention to what time it is and to turn on the box if there's a show we want to watch. It would feel quaint if it weren't so annoying.
And I can't stop time anymore, that's a bummer.
But we've only had to suffer for a few days as there's a new hard drive in the works and on the way. My wife wanted to upgrade to the HD Tivo but we would still want to keep this machine up and running since it is one of the coveted Lifetime subscription boxes.
That is, while many people are paying a monthly fee to Tivo, we paid one lump sum and never have to pay for Tivo service again. On that box. When we upgrade to HD we will probably have to start paying again since we missed the boat on the Lifetime HD service (plus it was either $700 or $800 and we didn't have that available at the time). But damn, HD Tivo has got to be about as close to television nirvana as you can get.
We'll get the new drive by Friday which means we miss Survivor so we'll have to watch it live, that'll be very strange.
Until then we will miss our Tivo which is kind of funny because I rarely watch tv, I just like having it ready for when I do have a few minutes. The upside to the hassle is that we'll be adding even more capacity to our Tivo and will be able to record around 180 hours of TV. And that's an awful lot of Oprah!
The strangest thing is how much of an impact the loss of the Tivo has made on our lives. Now, all of a sudden, we need to pay attention to what time it is and to turn on the box if there's a show we want to watch. It would feel quaint if it weren't so annoying.
And I can't stop time anymore, that's a bummer.
But we've only had to suffer for a few days as there's a new hard drive in the works and on the way. My wife wanted to upgrade to the HD Tivo but we would still want to keep this machine up and running since it is one of the coveted Lifetime subscription boxes.
That is, while many people are paying a monthly fee to Tivo, we paid one lump sum and never have to pay for Tivo service again. On that box. When we upgrade to HD we will probably have to start paying again since we missed the boat on the Lifetime HD service (plus it was either $700 or $800 and we didn't have that available at the time). But damn, HD Tivo has got to be about as close to television nirvana as you can get.
We'll get the new drive by Friday which means we miss Survivor so we'll have to watch it live, that'll be very strange.
Until then we will miss our Tivo which is kind of funny because I rarely watch tv, I just like having it ready for when I do have a few minutes. The upside to the hassle is that we'll be adding even more capacity to our Tivo and will be able to record around 180 hours of TV. And that's an awful lot of Oprah!
12.13.2007
Bad Math
I heard on the radio the other day that Oprah has a daily viewership of over 9 million. And then they said, 75% of which are women. Which means that 25% or 2.25 million men across the country watch Oprah.
Two point two five million.
I don't suppose there's any chance all of them are being tied up and forced to watch Oprah each day, is there? Because the alternative is that they are doing it voluntarily and that makes my head start shaking uncontrollably.
PS. Oprah, please don't send out your ninja assassins to make me pipe down.
Two point two five million.
I don't suppose there's any chance all of them are being tied up and forced to watch Oprah each day, is there? Because the alternative is that they are doing it voluntarily and that makes my head start shaking uncontrollably.
PS. Oprah, please don't send out your ninja assassins to make me pipe down.
8.24.2007
Paid Programming on Cable Should Credit My Account
You've seen them, those "programs" that are nothing but long, long commercials that preempt actual programming on regular channels.
Well I pay for cable so I am explicitly paying for these lame commercials.
That's like paying to read ads in a magazine (oh wait). And its wrong. I want my cable company to pay me for watching these stupid things and maybe I would watch them. Probably not but it galls me that they sell the time to air these things when I'm paying them for access to the station.
Its a great sales deal for the station, they make money both ways. But its wrong and needs to stop. You want to sell my paid-for cable access to the station? Them reimburse for those hours. Otherwise, quit preempting real programming for this bullshit programming.
Well I pay for cable so I am explicitly paying for these lame commercials.
That's like paying to read ads in a magazine (oh wait). And its wrong. I want my cable company to pay me for watching these stupid things and maybe I would watch them. Probably not but it galls me that they sell the time to air these things when I'm paying them for access to the station.
Its a great sales deal for the station, they make money both ways. But its wrong and needs to stop. You want to sell my paid-for cable access to the station? Them reimburse for those hours. Otherwise, quit preempting real programming for this bullshit programming.
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