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Apr. 2nd, 2006 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI'm half way through the second season of Babylon 5 and only now do I find that for some reason my TV (or possibly my DVD player) makes it so I can't see the edges of the picture. Its supposed to have aspect ratio settings on the TV but I can't make that change. I only just discovered that if I set the zoom on the DVD player to shrink (and no I don't know why it has a shrink setting under zoom) then I can see the whole thing. With a gap all around the edge.
Technology! Whyfor it no working as it should be???
OTOH, B5 is still great. I'm not commenting on it much because I keep on watching a whole disc at a time, and then I have too many seen to have seperate thoughts.
I liked the bit about when they sold us the future they should have said some assembly required.
Yes.
The ISN news version was interesting to watch now I've studied more cultural studies. I can pick up on more of what they're doing with the wording, and not showing the questions. I don't know if actual news shows are quite that manky, because I do not the TV news watch. It takes long times to tell many things I do not wish to know. Print news only. And there I can find three or four different versions of any big story for comparison, so I can know quickly that nobody agrees, or sometimes that everyone is printing the same press release.
News is strange.
The bit about the distinctive quality of humans being that they build communities... I kind of don't buy it. But as a way of TV holding up this quality, this building from diversity, as the very good thing, I can accept it.
I just kind of figure that many cooperative species would be more widely cooperative if it would benefit them.
But I guess other species don't keep as many pets, let alone build cities with as many cultures. So. *shrugs*.
Technology! Whyfor it no working as it should be???
OTOH, B5 is still great. I'm not commenting on it much because I keep on watching a whole disc at a time, and then I have too many seen to have seperate thoughts.
I liked the bit about when they sold us the future they should have said some assembly required.
Yes.
The ISN news version was interesting to watch now I've studied more cultural studies. I can pick up on more of what they're doing with the wording, and not showing the questions. I don't know if actual news shows are quite that manky, because I do not the TV news watch. It takes long times to tell many things I do not wish to know. Print news only. And there I can find three or four different versions of any big story for comparison, so I can know quickly that nobody agrees, or sometimes that everyone is printing the same press release.
News is strange.
The bit about the distinctive quality of humans being that they build communities... I kind of don't buy it. But as a way of TV holding up this quality, this building from diversity, as the very good thing, I can accept it.
I just kind of figure that many cooperative species would be more widely cooperative if it would benefit them.
But I guess other species don't keep as many pets, let alone build cities with as many cultures. So. *shrugs*.