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		<title>Old Media Takes It On The Chin From Scott Adams &#8211; Inadvertently.</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2010/04/old-media-takes-it-on-the-chin-from-scott-adams-inadvertently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Adams wanted to make a topical comic about the recent iPhone 4G drama that&#8217;s been all the buzz recently and realized that his normal outlet (a newspaper) has a propagation delay of about a month.
&#8220;I worried that the story would become stale before my comics would work  through the pipeline.&#8221;
His only option in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Engineer Is Hard To Find&#8230;  For TV Anyway.</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2010/04/a-good-engineer-is-hard-to-find-for-tv-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://seantorbett.com/2010/04/a-good-engineer-is-hard-to-find-for-tv-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently talking with a sales rep I deal with and we got on the  topic of the aging TV engineering workforce.  He told me a rather  depressing story about a recent SBE chapter meeting in his area where one of  the old timers started poking fun at a couple  younger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrestrial Radio.  It&#8217;s as bad as I remember.</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2010/04/terrestrial-radio-its-as-bad-as-i-remember/</link>
		<comments>http://seantorbett.com/2010/04/terrestrial-radio-its-as-bad-as-i-remember/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seantorbett.com/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been about five years since I bought into Sirius satellite (paid) radio.  At the time, like many initial customers,  I was spending a lot of time in a company truck.  For me it was driving from hilltop-to-hilltop working on transmitters or to various studios within &#8220;driving distance&#8221; and I quickly became fed up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cable&#8217;s Latest Attempt to Elminate Local Channel Carriage</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2009/12/cables-latest-attempt-to-elminate-local-channel-carriage/</link>
		<comments>http://seantorbett.com/2009/12/cables-latest-attempt-to-elminate-local-channel-carriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cable]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seantorbett.com/?p=217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new article in Broadcasting &#38; Cable highlights the American Cable Association&#8217;s attempt to sway the FCC via a December 11th letter by the ACA President Matt Polka (in addition to the regular lobbying of cable-related issues through their PAC) to eliminate &#8220;Must Carry&#8221; rules so that they can &#8220;offer Internet speeds as fast as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DTV Delay Debacle.  Just cut the cord already&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2009/02/the-dtv-delay-debacle-just-cut-the-cord-already/</link>
		<comments>http://seantorbett.com/2009/02/the-dtv-delay-debacle-just-cut-the-cord-already/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analog Transition]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seantorbett.com/?p=163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently our congress has passed legislation to delay the DTV transition/analog shut-off yet again &#8211; this time to June 12th of 2009.  For those that aren&#8217;t already aware this makes the 2nd time the date has been put off.  The original date (created in 1997) for this to happen was December 31st, 2006, but in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Mobile DTV.  Goodbye HDTV.</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2008/08/hello-mobile-dtv-goodbye-hdtv/</link>
		<comments>http://seantorbett.com/2008/08/hello-mobile-dtv-goodbye-hdtv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analog Transition]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seantorbett.com/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of what some liberal arts students or free-love hippies may tell you, you don&#8217;t get something for nothing.  Or, better yet, as the redoubtable Robert Heinlein coined, &#8220;TANSTAAFL&#8221; (There ain&#8217;t no such thing as a free lunch).  This simple truth frames the cold, hard realities about to face broadcasters after the current mobile DTV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Horrible Tops In &#8216;TV Shows&#8217; On iTunes.  Only It&#8217;s Not A TV Show&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2008/07/dr-horrible-tops-in-tv-shows-on-itunes-only-its-not-a-tv-show/</link>
		<comments>http://seantorbett.com/2008/07/dr-horrible-tops-in-tv-shows-on-itunes-only-its-not-a-tv-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seantorbett.com/?p=53</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As broadcasters continue to face eroding audiences, lousy programming, declining ratings, a lackluster fall line-up and pending changes in FCC rules regarding &#8216;localism&#8216;; here comes another punch in the gut.
Joss Whedon of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly and the Serenity movie fame created a three part mini-musical (!) video netcast called &#8220;Dr. Horrible&#8221; that only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Broadcasters Can&#8217;t Catch A Break.  Mostly Their Fault.</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2008/05/local-broadcasters-cant-catch-a-break-mostly-their-fault/</link>
		<comments>http://seantorbett.com/2008/05/local-broadcasters-cant-catch-a-break-mostly-their-fault/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seantorbett.com/?p=59</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A writer&#8217;s strike, shitty programming and the Internet.  Oh my!
Viewer&#8217;s are leaving appointment television by the droves and broadcasters are scrambling to do something, anything to keep them firmly planted on the couch during prime time.  I&#8217;ve covered the topic of declining viewers in the past, but the trend in hemorrhaging viewership of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition for Cable &amp; Satellite?  Says Who?  Sezmi.</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2008/05/competition-for-cable-satellite-says-who-sezmi/</link>
		<comments>http://seantorbett.com/2008/05/competition-for-cable-satellite-says-who-sezmi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 22:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analog Transition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DTV]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seantorbett.com/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sezmi is a startup out of Belmont, California that hopes to win subscribers from cable and satellite providers by providing a cheaper, on-demand and real-time television viewing service for a select selection of the more popular broadcast and &#8220;cable&#8221; channels.

This new company is born from the ashes and founders of the defunct USDTV service that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the chains.  Dumping my cell phone contract.</title>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2008/05/breaking-the-chains-dumping-my-cell-phone-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://seantorbett.com/2008/05/breaking-the-chains-dumping-my-cell-phone-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 18:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean T.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, let me say that this will not work for everyone and those teenagers that have their parents footing the mobile bill, unfortunately, will not feel the financial pain of owning a cell phone.  At least, not yet.   However, many people are in the same boat as myself carrying a work cell [...]]]></description>
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