Today Show

Did anyone catch that bit on the Today Show about Superbowl Parties?

First, they went on for several minutes explaining what HDTV was - not
really explaining as much as saying, "it's like TV only better" - as
though nobody had heard of HDTV.

Then, they talked about DVD players as something new that no one had
heard of, but then said "and these DVDs are high definition as well".

Do some research people.

Bill

Bill Binder

> Then, they talked about DVD players as something new that no one had
> heard of, but then said "and these DVDs are high definition as well".
>
> Do some research people.
>
> Bill

lol

kaydigi

Bill Binder wrote:
>
> Do some research people.
>

Why should they research their entertainment segments any more than the
news segments?

Matthew
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"Bill Binder" <> wrote in message
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> Did anyone catch that bit on the Today Show about Superbowl Parties?
>
> First, they went on for several minutes explaining what HDTV was - not
> really explaining as much as saying, "it's like TV only better" - as
> though nobody had heard of HDTV.
>
> Then, they talked about DVD players as something new that no one had
> heard of, but then said "and these DVDs are high definition as well".
>
> Do some research people.
>
> Bill

There are two digital teevee providers where I live, both with very high
tech offerings. When I converted to digital about 4 months ago, neither one
of these provider's installation techs had any idea how to hook up my DVD
recorder. They were in awe that the thing actually has a built-in hard
drive. Talk about being a little behind the times! I ended up hooking
everything up myself. My provider has still not figured out how to code DVD
players to their modems for automatic recording - the process I have to use
is very convoluted.

Rob
Canada

ShadowRaptor

Bill Binder <> wrote in news:Y_tKd.1199$Jt.218
@fed1read02:

> Did anyone catch that bit on the Today Show about Superbowl Parties?
>
> First, they went on for several minutes explaining what HDTV was - not
> really explaining as much as saying, "it's like TV only better" - as
> though nobody had heard of HDTV.
>
> Then, they talked about DVD players as something new that no one had
> heard of, but then said "and these DVDs are high definition as well".
>
> Do some research people.
>
> Bill

You think that's bad. Even the people they use for sending liveshots of
guests from around the country back to New York are clueless. I work
for a broadcasting company with stations in Providence, RI, and we had
Richard Hatch in as a guest host for our local newstalk radio station
there right after he won Survivor for a week. The Today Show sent some
people to do a setup for a liveshot with him on I believe either monday
or was it tuesday (blur) and they were like little children let let
loose in a candy store. That was the worst morning imaginable. We were
in the process of producing our own morning radio program and they were
constantly underfoot asking stupid questions like where could we put
Richard, the best way to light it, blah blah blah. I swear to God as
soon as the liveshot was over we couldn't get them out the door fast
enough. Since then we've never allowed another video crew from anywhere
to have that much control over us and our facility as the Today Show got
that day.

Joe Phillips