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“The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.”

Television Definitions Garbage High Definition

Author:George Carlin

“TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.”

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.”

Ifs Men May Young Television Comfort Creatures Definitions Young Man Enjoyment Appropriate Nests Learn To Fly Appropriate Time High Definition Creature Comforts

Author:Dennis Rainey

“Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of high definition television than a traditional movie.”

Looks Audience Rich Television Definitions Versions Traditional Cinematic High Definition

Author:Kenneth Turan

“Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?”

Has Beens Next Television Commitment Including Definitions Our Future Momentum Constraints

Author:Anne Sweeney

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”

“Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like... every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make.”

Thinking Knows Trying Two Causes Sound Television Connections Court Definitions Supreme Artistic Merit Twins Supreme Court Pornography Gum Chewing Hmm

Author:Bill Hicks