OT: Sci-fi (was RE: Ultra-portable terminals)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:45:43PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> It wasn't cost, it was practicality.  You have 44min of non-advertiser
> space these days or 52 minutes in 1967 (time the DVD running time of any
> TNG on forward as opposed to TOS, I have).

It's down to 42:30, now, according to Shonda Rhimes of Grey's Anatomy.

She's resorted to a 3 second main title over a sound burst, to save
drama time.

Cheers,
-- jra
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