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This is sad. What made environmental programs worse for me is the human interaction (and human interest) stories that they try to create. Usually it is a person

This is sad. What made environmental programs worse for me is the human interaction (and human interest) stories that they try to create. Usually it is a person catching or wrestling with a wild animal (they usually try to justify this for some obscure reason instead of admitting it is for television). Probably the best example of this is Steve Irwin's shows. But this probably just mirrors what people want. Everything should be instant gratification - like getting drive through hamburgers. I personally think that if they set up nice highres cameras at a watering hole (with nice internet connection) it would be better. You would then be able to watch the water hole all day and it would be cheap. Imagine laying on a couch on a Saturday, reading a book while eying the watering hole in HD on your television/PC...

andreyf 16y ago
And get Coke to sponsor it ;)
glhaynes 16y ago
I believe there's definitely a role for "curated" [to tie it back to another ongoing discussion] nature/environmental programs, but I really like your idea of an HD watering hole feed. Does anybody know of anything like it? Something that could just be left to run on your TV and maybe you might happen to catch something amazing if you looked up at just the right time?
flatulent1 16y ago
That would be an improvement over something some cable tv systems once did in small communities. If a town had one nearby full-power analog tv station, analog signals carried on the same channel on cable would often get interference. Even if the same station was carried, the differing time delays would cause the video to appear in different positions on a scan line causing ghosts. In the later days, the channel would typically carry public service text, community access programs, or guide listings. But in the early days it'd be things like weather guages next to an aquarium with the camera panning back and forth. Maybe by 2012 someone can do a video with (Tina Fey) Sara Palin shown secretly hunting down the last bear in Alaska or something... chase a Russian bear on an iceberg and wrestle for oil rights? BearGate, the Sara Palin conspiracy

andreyf 16y ago

And get Coke to sponsor it ;)

glhaynes 16y ago

I believe there's definitely a role for "curated" [to tie it back to another ongoing discussion] nature/environmental programs, but I really like your idea of an HD watering hole feed. Does anybody know of anything like it? Something that could just be left to run on your TV and maybe you might happen to catch something amazing if you looked up at just the right time?

flatulent1 16y ago

That would be an improvement over something some cable tv systems once did in small communities. If a town had one nearby full-power analog tv station, analog signals carried on the same channel on cable would often get interference. Even if the same station was carried, the differing time delays would cause the video to appear in different positions on a scan line causing ghosts. In the later days, the channel would typically carry public service text, community access programs, or guide listings. But in the early days it'd be things like weather guages next to an aquarium with the camera panning back and forth. Maybe by 2012 someone can do a video with (Tina Fey) Sara Palin shown secretly hunting down the last bear in Alaska or something... chase a Russian bear on an iceberg and wrestle for oil rights? BearGate, the Sara Palin conspiracy