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- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!bp
- From: bp@cs.brown.edu (Boris Putanec)
- Subject: Re: Showtime is running Cape Fear LBX
- In-Reply-To: mpalmer@encore.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:17:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <BP.93Jan21191847@swamp.cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Brown University
- References: <28076@sybase.sybase.com> <C17ut3.49t@encore.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:18:47 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <C17ut3.49t@encore.com> mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:
-
- Having just returned from a few weeks in Europe I was amazed to see MOST
- movies were shown in letter-box form on French TV.
-
- Another data point. I spent 3 weeks in Austria and almost every move I
- saw was letterboxed. This was true for the two Austrian national
- channels, the 3 major German networks--ABC, NBC and CBS equivalents,
- and the satellite only channles--RTL and Sat*1.
-
- When I asked my parents, they said "It has always been this way"
- (funny, cause I don't remember it being that way last January I was
- there). They also agreed with me that it makes much more sense to see
- the whole file image instead of only a portion.
-
- Sigh. Another reason to get a job in Europe.
-
- boris
-