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How Jim Henson Turned His Art into a Business (2013)

46 points by Thevet 12y ago

narag 12y ago
Rewatching Farscape now and pleasantly surprised. It was a little better than I remembered. The puppet characters are as good as human actors. No idea how producers did, but it is very fun and original.
- pasbesoin 12y ago
  I gave it a go on Netflix and enjoyed it, as far as I got. I just wish Netflix would fix the audio. It gets hinkey approximately in the second season. Very faint, and -- worse -- out of balance. Particularly noticeable on headphones. It's been that way for months. Which is why I'm to the point of making public comments about such. The Netflix "report a problem" feature, in my experience, never causes problems such as these to be fixed.
  - FlyingAvatar 12y ago
    I am curious how much control Netflix has over issues like this. i.e. Do they have carte blanche to alter the content that their providers give them, or are they contractually (or otherwise) obligated to rely on their content providers to correct issues with the content.
    - pasbesoin 12y ago
      I would hope they would have some level of quality control written into their contracts, if they are not doing the conversion themselves. (And, given the multiple bit depths and whatnot, I have to wonder whether they are not doing the conversions.) Worst case, they should ping the owners and request a corrected copy. Although... such production companies probably die back, technically, after the products (DVD, BluRay, stream, etc.) ship (as a wild guess). P.S. In another case, I actually managed to communicate the problem directly to the content's original author. Still waiting to see whether that produces a fix (video and audio out of sync, sometimes over a second so).
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- snowwrestler 12y ago
  > Most young people today are comfortable making money from their art. I've noticed this as well, and I think it is a significant cultural shift. I can just speak to music. When I was a kid there was quite a lot of cultural baggage around the concept of "selling out"--going corporate, taking money from big companies for your art or performance. Quite a few punk-ish bands got attacked for signing with big labels. There was much hand-wringing about having a Dylan or Led Zeppelin song appear with a car ad. It was unseemly to rock fans. I know some professional rock musicians now, and these days there seems to be little concern about those sorts of things.

46 points by Thevet 12y ago

narag 12y ago

Rewatching Farscape now and pleasantly surprised. It was a little better than I remembered. The puppet characters are as good as human actors. No idea how producers did, but it is very fun and original.

pasbesoin 12y ago
I gave it a go on Netflix and enjoyed it, as far as I got. I just wish Netflix would fix the audio. It gets hinkey approximately in the second season. Very faint, and -- worse -- out of balance. Particularly noticeable on headphones. It's been that way for months. Which is why I'm to the point of making public comments about such. The Netflix "report a problem" feature, in my experience, never causes problems such as these to be fixed.
- FlyingAvatar 12y ago
  I am curious how much control Netflix has over issues like this. i.e. Do they have carte blanche to alter the content that their providers give them, or are they contractually (or otherwise) obligated to rely on their content providers to correct issues with the content.
  - pasbesoin 12y ago
    I would hope they would have some level of quality control written into their contracts, if they are not doing the conversion themselves. (And, given the multiple bit depths and whatnot, I have to wonder whether they are not doing the conversions.) Worst case, they should ping the owners and request a corrected copy. Although... such production companies probably die back, technically, after the products (DVD, BluRay, stream, etc.) ship (as a wild guess). P.S. In another case, I actually managed to communicate the problem directly to the content's original author. Still waiting to see whether that produces a fix (video and audio out of sync, sometimes over a second so).

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snowwrestler 12y ago
> Most young people today are comfortable making money from their art. I've noticed this as well, and I think it is a significant cultural shift. I can just speak to music. When I was a kid there was quite a lot of cultural baggage around the concept of "selling out"--going corporate, taking money from big companies for your art or performance. Quite a few punk-ish bands got attacked for signing with big labels. There was much hand-wringing about having a Dylan or Led Zeppelin song appear with a car ad. It was unseemly to rock fans. I know some professional rock musicians now, and these days there seems to be little concern about those sorts of things.