People should not have to paralyze the city to make everyone see that police actions in the Bell case - whether viewed as a crime or horrible blunder - cannot be excused as "just one of those things."
IN THIS CASE,
We have not heard Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner Raymond Kelly or anyone else lay out a clear, convincing, detailed plan for ensuring there will be no more situations in which undercover officers rush on innocent people and unleash deadly force as if they're in a war zone. -----From the nydailynews.com ---and Errol Louis Opinions 4-26-2008 See http://harlemblogosphere.blogspot.com
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Flaw in TV converters
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, April 24th 2008, 4:00 AM
Did my TV screen just shrink?
That's the question a lot of people will be asking after installing one of the converter boxes that will keep older TV sets tuned into over-the-air broadcasts after Feb. 17, when most stations will switch to digital transmission from analog.
The National Association of Broadcasters estimates that 70 million sets nationwide are in danger of losing their picture. The A ssociated Press tested two boxes - the Digital Stream DTX9900 and Insignia NS-DXA1. Each costs $59.99, which can be partly defrayed by a $40 coupon available from the government at www.dtv2009.gov.
They come with a peculiar problem: Unless users manually change settings from show to show, the picture from many stations either won't fill the screen, or it will be so big that parts the picture are cut off by the edges of the screen.
Both boxes, with some programs, produced "windowboxing" or "the postage-stamp effect." This occurs because the digital broadcasts of network stations are in most cases formatted for widescreen HDTVs. The image will be "letterboxed" with black bars above and below.
The solution is to press the "Zoom" button on the remote that comes with the converter box. But that will have to be done for every show. Adapted from nydailynews 4-24-2008 P61
Posted by -----davidsradiotv2000
Thursday, April 24th 2008, 4:00 AM
Did my TV screen just shrink?
That's the question a lot of people will be asking after installing one of the converter boxes that will keep older TV sets tuned into over-the-air broadcasts after Feb. 17, when most stations will switch to digital transmission from analog.
The National Association of Broadcasters estimates that 70 million sets nationwide are in danger of losing their picture. The A ssociated Press tested two boxes - the Digital Stream DTX9900 and Insignia NS-DXA1. Each costs $59.99, which can be partly defrayed by a $40 coupon available from the government at www.dtv2009.gov.
They come with a peculiar problem: Unless users manually change settings from show to show, the picture from many stations either won't fill the screen, or it will be so big that parts the picture are cut off by the edges of the screen.
Both boxes, with some programs, produced "windowboxing" or "the postage-stamp effect." This occurs because the digital broadcasts of network stations are in most cases formatted for widescreen HDTVs. The image will be "letterboxed" with black bars above and below.
The solution is to press the "Zoom" button on the remote that comes with the converter box. But that will have to be done for every show. Adapted from nydailynews 4-24-2008 P61
Posted by -----davidsradiotv2000
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