Path: gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!rutgers!bellcore-2!bellcore!nielsen From: niel...@flash.bellcore.com (Jakob Nielsen) Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic Subject: Re: TV/radio Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 90 17:26:31 GMT References: <1990Oct23.211038.23224@ida.liu.se> Sender: n...@bellcore.bellcore.com Organization: /u/nielsen/.organization Lines: 15 Posted: Fri Oct 26 18:26:31 1990 In-reply-to: uda@IDA.LiU.SE's message of 23 Oct 90 21:10:38 GMT In fact, one can do even better with American TV than mentioned by most posters if one has a VCR. Many of the better movies are shown after midnight (ideal for hackers :-) and I have collected about 10 films on tape during a period of about 3 months which I have simply not had time to watch. (this is in addition to whatever films and shows I saw in realtime or soon after they were broadcast). When I lived in Denmark, my algorithm for whether it was worth taping a film from TV was whether it had at least two stars in Halliwel's film guide (scale of 0-4 stars). Now I don't even tape all the three-star films. -- Jakob Nielsen, Bellcore MRE-2P370, 445 South St, Morristown, NJ 07962-1910, USA niel...@bellcore.com, Tel. (201) 829-4731(w)/538-7254(h), Fax (201) 538-9093.