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Sitting in his office at city hall, his desk still bare, the mayor surveys a list of priorities. No. 1: the town's water system. The water, though drinkable, is often discolored because of iron content. Bunn thought he had set repairs in motion when he left, but he came home to find that not a spade of dirt had been turned. While he fumes over the delays caused partly by the city council's hesitancy to start big projects with him gone, he's really incensed that Bradford finds itself in financial straits while Washington invests billions in Iraq...
Your story was overblown. We all go through soul searching, men and teenagers included. Women should remember that everyone has the choice of being content or miserable. If they choose to be happy, they won't make poor choices that cause a crisis. Women are capable of being decision makers, and we can determine how to improve our life choices...
...which means it shows typical widescreen movies in 480 horizontal lines. This resolution is the same as DVD movies, but a real video geek would pay the $2,000 or more for a high-definition projector with a resolution of 720 lines or even higher (which can upscale DVD content for a sharper look). Also, the Cinego has a fairly low contrast ratio, which means that you can't really get a deep black without losing brightness. On the picture front, though, I was amazed at how quickly I forgot about these deficiencies...
...least 6.4 million households now have digital video recorders (DVRs) like TiVo. Cable and satellite providers are pushing the technology hard-40% of households are expected to have DVRs by 2009-while the cable guys are also pitching video on demand (VOD), another technology consumers use to watch content on their own schedule. "VOD is the ultimate worry for us," says Jon Mandel, chairman of the ad-buying firm MediaCom US. "If 25% of people watch TV totally randomly, it becomes much harder to buy, sell and target...
...predicting the demise of network television, which brought in an estimated $16.5 billion in advertising last season. As ABC demonstrated, it takes only a few hits like Desperate Housewives to orchestrate a rebound. But network execs are already dreaming up ways to resell content on platforms like video on demand, cell phones and the Internet. "You gotta figure out a way to make money," says Alan Wurtzel, president of media development for NBC Universal. "We know the consumer is changing and expectations are changing." Question is, will the networks change fast enough too? -With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles