Posted on 10/01/2003 3:31:44 AM PDT by ABC123
Dear FOP (Friend Of Phil):
'Political Correctness is the liberal version of fascism.' That's the title of one of the chapters in my new book, 'Right From The Heart: The ABC's of Reality in America.' It seems that diversity is encouraged by the Left until it's a diversity of thought.
ABC TV's new drama, 'Threat Matrix,' is based on an actual report given to the President each morning called the Threat Matrix. It outlines the most active domestic and international threats against the United States. This brilliant new drama from ABC is being savaged by many left-wing reviewers as "pro-Bush" or "pro-Homeland Security." It's actually pro-American and anti-terrorist, something that crawls all over those who are embarrassed to be Americans and think we should somehow apologize to the world.
There is a concerted effort underway in Hollywood to kill this wonderful show. We must not allow that to happen. In this day and age of reality TV it's rare that we find such a smart and well-produced jewel like 'Threat Matrix.' By tuning in and supporting this series on Thursday nights at 8PM Eastern, 7PM Central, we can collectively trump the critics.
Please join me in this fight against political correctness by supporting a show bold enough to espouse pro-American ideals while clearly identifying the terrorists as the true enemies they are and not some disenfranchised group worthy of foreign aid.
You can read a synopsis of the series at the link below.
Please pass this e-mail along to everyone in your mailbox and let's thwart the liberals one more time. Watch 'Threat Matrix' Thursday night at 8PM, 7 Central.
Thanks,
Phil Valentine
Afternoon Talk Show Host
NewsRadio 1510WLAC, Nashville
PhilValentine.com
The show was a little rough around the edges, but it has potential for folks who already like Clancy, 24, CSI, etc.
I disagree.
It jumped the shark when the dingbat daughter managed to get herself abducted three times in one 24 hour period during the first season. I still like it though...
You can get a lot of information and misinformation on the newsgroup alt.tv.tech.hdtv. It's a Usenet group, so there are the usual idiots, nutcases, and loonies. But there are also a lot of contribs who know their stuff.
My own personal preference on RP sets is Mitsubishi, which provides a user-available 64-point convergence interface, which allows you to precisely align the red, blue, and green images for a crisp clean video output. The Mitsu also allows you to select 6500K as your color temp, which is what you want, not that screaming 10,000K temp you see on sets in the showroom (overwhelming blue cast).
Convergence is not an issue on fixed-pixel displays, like plasma and LCD. By definition, convergence on a fixed-pixel display will always be perfect. And you won't have any geometry or pincushion-distortion issues, either. The plasma is an active display - the pixels generate the light. The LCD is passive - there's a lamp behind the screen pixels and the pixels modulate what light passes thru. LCD and plasma sets have the rap of not being able to reproduce a full truly-black black. But they're improving a lot of late.
Have a look and see what you like. But note that in the showroom, all the sets will have the brightness, contrast, and color cranked up to make them stand out. That's not the way you want them to look at home. We've got our Mitsu running at 38% brightness, 40% contrast, and 38% color. Looks absolutely natural. And the tubes will last twice as long this way. Of course, ours is a standard-def set, we haven't moved to HDTV yet. When we do, it will probably be a plasma, since I'm such a convergence perfectionist. Coupla years, I'll let you know.
Michael
I could be wrong, but I think you're going to HAVE to go with a 40". That's about the smallest HD I've seen. You'll figure a way to make it work.
BTW, if you don't already have it, be sure to add a Home Theater sound system. You won't believe how much it enhances even the ordinary TV viewing. You can get a very good home theatre sound system with receiver(amp and decoder), 5 speakers and a subwoofer) for $300-500. About $800 gets you a superb Onkyo HT setup. Under NO circumstances should you get anything that has "BOSE" on it.
Our HT setup is all JBL, which is what you find in most theaters. Four large speakers (Left front, right front, left rear and right rear), a smaller center-channel speaker that sits atop the big screen, and a 12" powered sub. Since bass is largely non-directional, you can put the sub just about anywhere. The sound from this setup can be a moving experience.
Michael Michael
All the baddies get a butt-kicking. Imagine how despicable that is!
OK... maybe a little un-PC.
I love that show.
I think there are one or two HDTV channels on DTV or Dish. They use so much bandwidth that it would take mucho satellites to transmit them. My main concern about getting an HDTV set with tuner right now is that the HDTV specs for cable are just being finalized. I haven't looked into the technical details but I would be concerned about compatibility with existing tuners. Over the air reception is hopeless where we live, we hardly even get a cellphone signal here (there's a hill between us and Atlanta).
Great Thusday night episode about a gas attack scenario through Mexico by the usual suspects.
Great entertainment, good production and tons of food for thought to those in government daily trying to protect us from the insane sandmaggots.
I know the area fairly OK. Where are ye? And who's your cellulite phone company?
Michael
It is an anthropological study!
And a lot of pictures of people in bathing suits but that is not the point..
But it sounds like I am going to have to set the VCR for "Threat Matrix"
I'm in southeast Forsyth county, about a thousand feet from the river. There are plenty of cellphone towers nearby but we're sort of down in the flood plain area of the river. If I go a 1/8 mile up to the main street in our neighborhood I get perfect cellphone reception.
Unfortunately, Adelphia bought out our local cable company (Prestige) shortly before going belly up so I doubt we'll get HD cable any time soon. The previous company did a good job setting up the two-way internet service. I have the digital cable package and while it does have the positives of digital (perfect color, no analog noise/interference, etc.) it is heavily compressed. Since I work with computer graphics I'm very aware of the digital artifacts - I almost prefer the analog noise (analog interference is a whole 'nother topic altogether). Of course, turning down the "Sharpness" control on the TV helps reduce the artifacting.
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