They are currently running a standard-def signal INSIDE A BOX with a HUGE SPACE-WASTING FRAME AROUND IT so they can show school closings. **** you, fox.

Look at this ****. What the **** is this? ****, that's what. ****ING ****.

I'm going to guess that it's either news or they're showing something that was only made in SD?

No. The simpsons is in HD now. Look : They don't even fill up the whole interior box with it.

More like faux.
:smug:

Fox5, not fox news. Get the **** out of my thread.

Why do those Simpsons characters look like South Park characters?

This is why I download anything I want to watch, don't have to deal with stations.

or maybe you bought a tv with a really wide frame

Which guy is being Kenny?

Our local Fox affiliate does that **** when there are school closings. Well, it's not that bad, but they replace the HD feed with an SD feed with school closings overlaid on it. Apparently they haven't yet figured out how to show the closings over the HD feed...

Been awhile since I saw this one, but I think it's Ralph.

That would make sense.

our local stations often revert to SD broadcast whenever they put some overlay on the screen for school closings and such

it can't be that hard to just make your overlays work with HD broadcasts so you don't piss off the viewer

Yeah, and not to mention that Fox News actually only broadcasts in a widescreen friendly format now regardless of what definition your are able to receive. Tibby fails, again.

I wasn't serious that's why I used :smug:.
Internet!

ummm... whoopdy freakin do?

Stop using the :smug: thing. It's not funny when you do it.

Afraid I'm going to have to agree with Antony on this one, you're just not using it right

They do it with scrolls and so forth at the bottom of sports broadcasts all the time. These local stations should take notes.

Like you don't agree with me all the time, anyway. If you don't stop treating my like an idiot in front of other people, it's over between us, Deadman.

And it wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't misusing it... in 4 out of his last 10 posts. Jesus, dude, take it easy. Even Jon`C doesn't use ad hominem that often, and there's usually a pretty good reason for saying that.

That's what she said

Haha, ouch on multiple levels

I hate it when they overlay things on the video. Most of the time it's on the bottom, and if there's subtitles (usually during American Dad), you can't read them because they're being blocked by the stupid overlay.

Just leave the show alone damnit, I want to watch American Dad, I don't care about what's coming on tomorrow afternoon!

Yeah, I hate any and all overlays. If it's so important, overlay during the ads, see if that will help you get more people watching them

Local broadcasters are infamously clueless when it comes to overlays and frame changing. What's funny is that they usually make it more complicating than they need to, simply because every other element they use is an overlay or a key. We found a "scale frame" PiP function that worked perfectly on the old system our local conglomerate station was using. Despite this feature, they still did crappy overlays until my friend got promoted to directing very recently. I've also seen shifted HD where they just shift the frame over tp fill the void.

Edit: Looking at the picture again, some systems only allow you to scale the frame from the center at increments. It's possible they didn't have an overlay that fit any of the larger resolutions. They always have some kind of frame offset though, so I still don't buy it that they couldn't crop it up in the top right.

I'm gonna have to go with Sarn on this one. It might.. yes, it might be time to turn off the T.V. and find some sort of higher meaning in life than getting pissed off by the quality of the signal to your idiot-box.

Yes, because getting pissed off at them making the screen ridiculously small is JM's meaning of life -_-

If you haven't noticed, part of being in massassi (hell, any forum) means you get to ***** about things. Also, things on tv are very often discussed in massassi, as is *****ing about things on tv.

*****ing about the quality of tv seems only fair.

This is complete nonsense. I hold this akin to the people who tell those who ***** about cigarette prices to quit smoking.

Not happy with gas prices? Just quit driving obviously. Is your job making you mad? Just quit. Angry with one of your friends, disown the **** and get on with more meaningful things in your life instead of just complaining when something upsets you. When something upsets you, just cut it out completely and move on. Sooner or later you'll be left all by yourself, and one day when you wake up with a headache, just blow your brains out and you won't have to worry about headaches anymore.

In this case, I think it's not so much "stop watching TV" it's "just stop uselessly complaining", but I get your point.

Yeah, don't ***** about life at all. That's the solution, too. Just bottle it all up until you finally say "**** this ****" and go on a shooting rampage.

JM is a mailman; shooting rampages are what he does.

My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT.

I like that quote. I think ill put it in my sig.

This is the same sort of argument that infuriated me before high definition tvs became so prevalent. People would complain about widescreen dvds not taking up the entire screen. I understand that's a bit of a different scenario, but still I get to hear people whine and complain "why are there still some movies that don't take up the whole screen on my widescreen tv?"

End-rant.

Wait, what? Haha. That's a humorous analogy. If you hold this akin to that, then your argument is clearly weak and I'm not sure I should waste time responding to it.



Check. Hey, you're pretty smart.



Mad is a loose term and making a mockery of the intracacies of leaving a job. Why is it making you mad? Is it wreaking havoc on your conscience? Would quitting allow you to grow as a person? Are you quitting for immature reasons?



Once again, this vastly depends on the situation. I'm not going to stand here on a soapbox and say that you should always make an attempt to save a friendship, because that's just not true. You have no idea of the various situations and personalities out there and the dynamics between them to make a blanket judgement about this.



There is a balance between cutting things out externally and adjusting yourself internally to deal with unpleasantries. Both are necessary.



Nope. TV hardly counts as companionship.



Cute.

Then why did you?

And I think it's sad that I have to point out that the entire post you referenced was blatantly mocking you.

Because otherwise I would probably be doing something worthwhile, which is always difficult.

And why would you have to point that out? I know.

Somehow I think following your own advice could be helpful...

They don't get TV in Finland.

What the hell are you talking about? Freelancer is from potato land as far as I know..

And I was inferring... you know what, tibby? Go back to sleep before you hurt yourself. I honestly think freelancer is smart enough to understand the smartass comment I was making there. You, on the other hand, seem like you would have trouble mastering the complexities of operating a doorknob.