... signal. Digital signals, in contrast to analog, are much easier to compress. Compression is required because five times as much information must fit into the same 6MHz bandwidth that analog TV is transmitted in. MPEG-2 compression, the compression method that will be used, can reduce the number of bits transmitted by approximately 55:1 (Collins, 2001). This is made possible because MPEG ... NTSC proposed its standards (CasaBianca, 1992). When this similarity began to cut into the profits of the motion-picture industry, their initial reaction was to aggressively attempt to counteract the...

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... are always brimming with creative ideas for film and television projects. In Before Sunrise, Jesse, an American traveler passing through Europe explains to his new friend Celine his idea for a TV show consisting of 24 hours of 365 ordinary people's different lives. Similarly, in Waking Life, the main character, a man trapped in a dream world, meets performance artist Tiana Hux as he ... ...

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... as a main priority when he envisioned Godzilla as a physical indication of the nuclear bomb. Once Godzilla reaches downtown Tokyo, no building is saved. Each real milestone is obliterated, strip malls, TV towers, government structures, popular retail establishments, etc. Amid this annihilation, Godzilla abandons what must be portrayed as an ocean of flames, as though it had been through an actual atomic ... ...

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... miss. I want to welcome one of the most beautiful women in Latin America-Valeria Arraya!" Walking on stage, radiant and smiling, Valerie is initially introduced in the film on TV as object of voyeuristic pleasure for male audiences of the film as well as the audience members in the world of the film watching the television broadcast, including Jorge who ... ...

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... experiments show that commercial subliminal tapes have no effect other than the effect of one's belief in them (a placebo). Many years ago, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations used a popular Sunday night TV show to flash a subliminal message of a sentence 352 times. When the 500 "letter-writers" were asked to guess the message, no one was able to answer correctly. However, almost half ... ...

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Violence portrayed in films are believed to be the incentive for violence in real-life. Though it may be true that violent films contribute to real-life brutality, movie industries have repeatedly denied the influence in the movies they endorse. There have been horrific cases, however, that points a finger towards the impact of violent movies in society. Undoubtedly, violent films do play a part in real-life violence and the movie industries should be accountable for the films they promote. Recently the movie industry has been under fire from their lack of moral and cultural responsible toward...

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... act was that America's corporations may not monopolize the internet, as is the case with the news, music and, film. The internet as an entity is not like radio or TV waves- limited, its bandwidths are broad enough for everyone (~six billion) on earth to have an email/web-page plus five times that. Consequently, with time current computer technologies have ... ...

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... the films contained scenarios that would not happen in real life. Even though there has been a rise in home entertainment over the years such as cable/satellite, DVDs, VHS and TV, the fact that audiences would have to see the film would cause the admissions to rise as audiences would rather go and see the film when it is released on ... ...

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... that." According to the Screen actors guild, most minorities are cast into supporting roles, not the more prestigious leading roles. Statistically, according to the Screen actors guild, the percentages of TV/Theatrical roles from 2002 are as follows, caucasians 73.6%, African Americans 15.5%, Latino/Hispanic 6%, Asian/Pacific 2.5%, and Northern America Indians are the lowest at 0.2%. Beyond the percentages of color, the ... ...

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