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On 2018-04-20, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

> On 4/19/2018 6:48 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On 2018-04-19, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2018-04-19, Kerr-Mudd,John <nots...@invalid.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I vaguely remember some "coming next" bit on top of the end of a program
>>>> (on ch4?); maybe it was the hoohah about that that caused a change in the
>>>> rules. A lot of the commercial channels squeeze the credits and jump in
>>>> at the end to tell you about something exciting coming up.
>> 
>> I hate that, especially when I'm trying to scan the cast list for the
>> name of an actor whose performance I enjoyed.  To make things worse,
>> the now-shrunken credits are often scrolled at a much higher speed
>> than in the original: compressed in time as well as space.
>> 
>> Then there are the networks who completely reset the credits - different
>> format, typeface, etc. - to better fit into their end-of-show ads.
>
> Mr. Gibbs, you can look up the episode on IMDb.com and find out more 
> than you wanted to know about the actors.

Sure, but that's not nearly as convenient as reading it off a list of
credits that scroll by slowly enough for you to read.  Edited credits
go by so fast that there's no way anybody could read it without
single-stepping the video (if the designers of your PVR will allow
you to do that).  I've concluded that the credits are no longer intended
to be read (at least as far as the networks are concerned), and the fact
that they're still there at all is merely to satisfy some sort of legal
obligation.

> In the future, I look forward to a post from you... listing some of the 
> things you *really* like!  After all... *no* need in being negative all 
> the time.

Have I become that much of a curmudgeon?  Good - all that hard work
has paid off.  :-)

OK, things I like...  playing acoustic music on instruments that
haven't changed in a century or more, flying a 50-year-old aircraft
through airspace using procedures that have evolved over time to
meet specific requirements rather than chasing fads, chatting with
people on newsgroups like this rather than uploading cute kitten
videos and my personal data to the likes of Facebook...  There are
lots of things I like, it's just that few of them are fashionable.

> Just don't let the government know what you like... they will 
> tax it or forbid it!  ;-)

You got that right.

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