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Is digital TV the end of broadcast television? Would that be a bad thing? {Daily Finance}
Jun 13th 2009 6:31PM I have seen a picture on a HD system that is compatible with the "old" NTSC system and it looked better than digital.
The FCC did the right thing over half a century ago when color came in by rejecting CBS's incompatible spinning color wheel system with a different resolution of scanning lines and approving the compatible color system that has become flawless over the years.
Unfortunately today's FCC was more interested in bending to corporate greed than in serving the public so they intentionally approved digital.
All the waste of materials and the pollution caused by manufature of new equipment and dumping of perfectly good analog gear involved in these worthless changes and our hard-earned money going to the communist countries where the new TV sets and the converter boxes are made is a travesty.
The FCC's other travesty is failure to give digital ("HD radio")radio broadcasting its own band instead of piggybacking it onto normal AM and FM frequencies where it interferes with the analog broadcasts and cuts in and out at randon The old 45 Mhz FM band would have been ideal for digital radio.
General Motors finally unloads Saab {Daily Finance}
Jun 12th 2009 1:11AM S.A.A.B. the aircraft company that created their car division from scratch should have hung onto it and sold off Scania trucks.
I'm surprised GM failed to keep Saturn which they created the same way they did Chevy, as opposed to buying their other divisions. I expected them to sell or kill off the rest of the ones they bought so they'd be left with Chevy and Saturn. Maybe sell Cadillac back to Ford as well as eliminate Buick, Pontiac, GMC, etc. like they did Olds, and the real Saab, etc..
Hummer became a non-brand when AM General quit making the civvy version of the HMV. The H2 and h3 are merely versions of the Suburban and Trailblazer vans and K pickups.
Much adoo about Vauxhall, Opel, etc. but what will happen to Holden and others?
G.M.'s greed of the early part of the century and the 1920s, etc. finally caught up with them and the oversized company imploded.
GM stops trying to sell medium duty truck line, will cease production of Chevy Kodiak and GMC Topkick {Autoblog}
Jun 9th 2009 12:17PM The current model Kodiak/Topkick shares the same cab with the Express/Sevannah panel truck vans. The new manufactutrer would need to come up with their own cab when GM makes the periodic body style changeover as well as their own chassis components or simply keep buying them from GM and stick their own name on it the way Roger Penske will do with the three reamining saturns GM will keep building for him.
Gm apparently wants to limit themselves to automobiles and consumer light trucks.
Feds: Sears duped and spied on its customers online {WalletPop}
Jun 6th 2009 11:26PM Fortunately I never messed with their online websites.
I do give them credit for honoring their lifetime guarentee on Craftsman tools, so that's one bright spot still left in their reputation.
Unfortunately, the quality on many other items went out about the time they dumped the Allstate auto parts and service brands, Harmony House, Silvertone, Homart, Coldspot, Allen Simpson-Sears, Sears, ROEBUCK & Company and other brands that used to signify quality. I also heard that one reason they sold out to the dude who bought K-mart was to strip employee pensions and abuse hard working employees in other ways as well.
Companies please note that the way employees as well as customers are treated, how grossly overpaid the CEOs are and whether or not your goods come from Red China or similar countries, and other outsourcing abuses, are major factors in my choice of where I do business.
I bought a TV on sale with 1 year same as cash and the Citibank credit card bill kept charging interest and penalties and I had to call them every month like clockwork to get it corrected. I ended up getting disgusted with both CitY bank(they can learn to spell!) and the Sears/K-mart comany, paying it off early and canceling my charge card. Sears Roebuck's own Revolving Charge was much better.
They also had the gall to try to charge me a restocking fee for defective merchendise I returned. My guess was they would try to resell the defective product to another victim.
Needless to say K-mart/Sears and Orchard Supply have pretty much joined WalMart as far as I'm concerned.
Pack your can opener! Airlines squeezing in more seats {WalletPop}
Jun 4th 2009 9:10PM The standard seat pitch on transit vehicles (city buses, streetcars, interurban light rail, etc.) is 30" although the seat backs are 2" or less thick so things could get worse on the airlines once they realize how short they can go.
It's time to realize the flying fad has run its multi-decade course and to think about taking the train or even Greyhound type buses for a much less stressful trip.
German cruise company offers knock-up refund {Gadling}
May 5th 2009 4:42PM This is unconcionable. Worldwide overpopulation is destroying our planet. They should welcome the immagrants who are flooding our country with overpopulation.
Ryanair - to pay to pee or not to pay to pee? {Gadling}
Feb 28th 2009 6:07PM Just as I predicted a couple of years ago.
Not just the standard pay-lock on the door but coin-operated TP, soap and paper towel dispensers and even water faucets as some clip-joints have done in the past.
Also a coin-operated drinking water dispenser at, say, a nickel for an 8 ounce paper cup, maybe a nickel for the cup and another nickel for the 8 ounces of water.
Airlines need to sell ad space on and in planes just like transit systems have done for well over a century.
Hunter Dies in Opening Weekend Accident {Fanhouse Outdoors}
Oct 24th 2008 10:39AM Those who live by the gun die by the gun if they're careless or if someone else gets careless.
Shootin' at some food is rewarding when safe&successful.
An inconvenient shrink: Continental's carry-on limit gets smaller...just in time for Thanksgiving {WalletPop}
Oct 24th 2008 10:23AM I've been turned of of air travel years ago. Their greed is yet another reason why driving or taking the bus is cheaper and less stressful and even a day coach on the train is more luxurious and relaxing than first class on those overpriced flying aluminum tin cans.
Cyclists: Range Rover drivers worst on the road {Autoblog Green}
Sep 4th 2008 11:39PM Camrys, Original Tauruses (the jury's still out on the Volvo-based Ford "500" that was renamed Taurus this year)
