woodman

rob:
This exchange contains statements from people that like to think that they're knowledgeable about DTV and HDTV and all of the technologies that they represent - plus typical idiotic blathering about broadcasting in the USA and how station owners are getting what amounts to "a license to print money". Cash cow indeed! This is downright laughable.

One only has to look at the dreadful state of affairs in the broadcasting industries to see the folly of this sort of thinking. TV stations are now putting their channel logo on screen to remind (and irritate) viewers just what channel they're watching. Re-runs of programs are no longer confined to the summer months as they were in years gone by, they're now a fixture of the entire TV season! Commercial advertising now takes up more of each hour of programming than ever before, and now that PVRs are on the scene, many people are skipping through commercials rather than watching them. Don't think that the advertisers are unaware of this and how it can seriously hamper their message's effectiveness. The end result of all this? Broadcaster's revenues on a slippery slope downhill and gaining momentum.

People talk about broadcasters as though they were just a bunch of greedy *******s, intent on milking their "cash cow" for all it's worth - at the expense of the American taxpayer! To that I can only respond with ha, ha, ha, ha, he,he,he,ho,ho,ho,ho ... and a tear drop.

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