I saw the beginning of the second episode. It's dreadful and requires too great a suspension of disbelief for me. Shorter would be better, if you ask me. John -----Mensaje original----- De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Tom Barry Enviado el: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:20 PM Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Fringe I forgot to watch Fringe but I did manage to find an online version that listed the total time (likely without commercials) as being 49:46 long. If that's correct it is much better than the average I've become used to for a 1 hour show from the networks. - Tom Hughes Gary-DJWV76 wrote: > Fox announced at the upfronts that some of their new shows would switch > to smaller ad breaks. Decrease the inventory and increase the value of > each avail. > > gary > > Gary Hughes > Distinguished Member, Technical Staff > Advanced Engineering > Motorola On Demand Video, MA34 > 80 Central St. > Boxborough, MA 01719 > Email: ghughes@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Office: 978 266 7269 > Mobile: 978 339 3615 > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Manfredi, Albert E >> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:01 PM >> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [opendtv] Fringe >> >> Wow. Fox is doing some interesting stuff. >> >> Last night was the debut of Fringe, a show about "fringe >> science." Not only was the episode fun, but get this, each >> commercial break was either 60 seconds or 90 seconds long. That's it. >> >> And the commercial breaks did not seem more frequent than >> usual, either. >> If anything, the other way around. >> >> What's going on at Fox? >> >> Bert >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.