Ready for X-ray TV??

[johnfowles]

http://www.tvpredictions.com/xray033106.htm
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Embargoed until April 1, 2006, 12 a.m. (eastern)

Feature
Ready for X-ray TV?
X as in exposed. New picture technology promises to let viewers literally see through the clothing of TV stars and personalities.
By Irving Clifford
Special to TVPredictions.com

TVPredictions.com has learned that the Institute of Broadcast Science and Technology in London, England, has perfected a new display technology that enables viewers to see through the clothing of any person who is positioned in the center of the screen.

"For instance, we recently watched a 1968 repeat of The Avengers starring Diana Rigg and were absolutely stunned to discover that she wore no undergarments at all," Dr. Worthington-Smythe said. "We concluded that she felt the undies inhibited her karate kicks during the show"
"You don't have to look at people with their clothes off if you don't want to. It's a choice, much like the decision to smoke, drink or pick your nostrils when no one is looking.
However, Arthur Stone, an agent for the TAA talent agency in Los Angeles, which represents some of today's biggest stars, begs to differ.

"I have actors and actresses in my office every day screaming about HDTV. They cry that people can see their zits! But now you're telling me people will see their tits! This is too much," Stone said.
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Or if you don't like that site try this official page:-
http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/lastpage.htm
John Fowles


[ March 31, 2006, 16:51: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

[geodeticman]

John, John, John. I admit it woefully, you GOT me. I read it all like a fool. You are such a treasure trove of info I as usual walked right down that lane.......

Happy April fools to you as well. - Steve

[Cathy]

Originally posted by geodeticman:
John, John, John. I admit it woefully, you GOT me. I read it all like a fool. You are such a treasure trove of info I as usual walked right down that lane.......

Happy April fools to you as well. - Steve

I was right behind you, Steve. I should have known better.

[stationmaster]

Yep! I must really be a "dumb hick"
Good one John.....................

[johnfowles]

OK OK we had some fun on Saturday the first.If you now have a few minutes to spare go to:-
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/P90/
ten humourous pages worth.
top of the list deservedly is the BBC's celebrated "The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest"
In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama aired a delightful spoof documentary
if you have a high speed connection there is a link to watch this classic hoax
I was rather disappointed not to find my own favo(u)rite April Fools jape.
One year (not so many ago) A UK "mobile" (cell) phone manufacturer (possibly Nokia) placed a very realistic looking half page
advert in the Daily Telegraph for their new phone which had, would you believe, a built in camera! Back then it sounded
highly improbable,but this was long before the internet and email and digital pictures let alone being able to receive live
television (or movies even) on today's tiny devices (my almost state of the art "portable" phone at the time was roughly 9
inches by 6 and 3 inches thick and must have weighed all of 6 pounds.
In stark contrast at two of last October's Lightfoot concerts fans in adjacent seats to me were busy, whilst waiting for the
band to appear, checking and composing emails on their Blackberries



I have now acquired a remarkabkle baby "micro notebook" an HP Jornada 820 H/PC (Handheld PC)



compare its keyboard size (90% of a standard notebook's) with the Chicklet sized Blackberry's
keys and the relatively large display, all in a 2 1/2pound unit.
The Jornada has amongst other things a USB socket,a Compact Flah card reder a PC Card socket and a built in modem and once I buy a PCCard wireless modem I too will be able to surf just about anywhere.Oh yes it also has a VGA output socket so that it can be hooked up to a larger monitor.
I am so pleased with it that I have written a web site specifically for it at:-
http://h1.ripway.com/johnsjornadasite/
Lots more yet to be written on the availability and installation of program(me) software
(Almost unbelievably it comes with the complete Pocket Office Suite of PWord/PAccess/PExcel/PIE Pocket Internet Exploder, and the Windows CE (wince)Operating System, which is a familiar albeit slimmed down version of Windows95 ,all
"built in" on a 16MB ROM chip) but it has only 16MB of RAM for running programs, extendable by using Compact Flash cards (I have a gigantic 2MB card and once I have installed a Windows CE compatible mp3 player that 2MB will I know hold reasonably good mp3s of every GL album, and then some!!
Woo hoo!! Although to be fair the unit's sound system is only mono and there is no headphone socket
John Fowles
whatever next??

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