This new (anonymous) voice in the ether is offering up some radical, and, it seems, well motivated ideas about how to change up the public television system. Certainly worth wrestling with or embracing depending on your point of view… Efficiency Idea 1 In our quest to identify ways that PBS can cut costs, we will [...]
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I’m a little late posting this one, but a fascinating study that shows we like to surf and watch! (and I thought it was only me…) The two media can and will stand side-by-side for quite a while. Written by Ryan Lawler Posted Monday, March 22, 2010 at 8:30 AM PT Nielsen: Media Multitasking Catches On [...]
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The nicest thing about receiving HD over-the-air is that is comes through with the least amount of video compression. Cable and satellite providers necessarily compress HD in order to fit all those HD channels in a pretty skinny pipe. Over-the-air is the cleanest HD image you’ll find.
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Our Communications Director, Joanna Cummings recently discovered this great blog from a Montreal viewer: How to watch CBS, NBC, FOX, & PBS in HD for free A while back, I wrote about what a mess it is getting HD programming in Montreal. It’s either very expensive (Bell and Shaw Direct) or almost non-existent (Videotron). The [...]
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