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Comment D-Theater? (Score 1) 130

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Alien Versus Predator almost made it to that format.
"In 2002, prerecorded D-VHS cassettes were sold under the brand name D-Theater in the US. While D-Theater is a D-VHS tape, it is incompatible with D-VHS decks not bearing the D-Theater logo. They provide content in both 720p and 1080i as well as at least one Dolby Digital audio track."

Comment BBC is also litigous, and sticklers (Score 0, Troll) 53

I'd be more sympathetic to them if their site hadn't in the past told me to sod off because, as a foreigner, I never paid a TV licensing fee. Ah well, the British have pioneered a lot of great shows, but they also inspired the world with their colorful pirates.

Comment Is copying ok when meatpuppets do it? (Score 1) 110

ST:TNG's first season, politicians copying the speeches of others, totally derivative science fiction made with the expectation that viewers are unaware of what's been written in the past, and so on.

And maybe if AI wrote the scripts for SF shows they wouldn't have ships moving at hundreds of times the speed of light navigated around obstacles by humans with a normal nervous system, and relying on the connection between their eyes and hands.

Lots of SF written many, many, years ago did a much less unrealistic job. Here's an example, which while not ideal, is in the public domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2...

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