http://www.kungfuquip.com/the-next-generation-of-broadband/ Thoughts On Life In The Swamp Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:43:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kungfuquip.com/the-next-generation-of-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-6658 Kung Fu Quip » The New TV Season: My Bets For The Dead Pool Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:56:54 +0000 http://www.kungfuquip.com/archives/700#comment-6658 [...] So, in no particular order, here are my guesses as to what gets cancelled, and what shows will make TV history. Chuck - Monday, 8/7, NBC - The pilot was pretty good, if a little slow.  The premise is weak (watching a web video embedded with top secret government information will dump those secrets straight to your brain), for no other reason that encoding for web video is so bad you’d end up brain fried or (more likely) the video would be so large there’s no way it could be sent, downloaded, or viewed in the time it happens in the show.  Perhaps if they had the new wideband cable modem. [...] [...] So, in no particular order, here are my guesses as to what gets cancelled, and what shows will make TV history. Chuck – Monday, 8/7, NBC – The pilot was pretty good, if a little slow.  The premise is weak (watching a web video embedded with top secret government information will dump those secrets straight to your brain), for no other reason that encoding for web video is so bad you’d end up brain fried or (more likely) the video would be so large there’s no way it could be sent, downloaded, or viewed in the time it happens in the show.  Perhaps if they had the new wideband cable modem. [...]

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