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The Olympiapark in Munich, Germany, is an Olympic Park which was constructed for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Olympic swimming stadium,
Theatron
BMW Welt
TV Tower
my running trail , but not doing by running:-)
9 pm
21°°
evening
My tv-out is completely broken... gun shot wounds to the face...
…and one of the greatest examples of group think is the stigma given to conspiracy theories. The phrase “conspiracy theory” gives a distinct impression to the average person. The JFK assassination, Area 51, Roswell, government cover ups, strange disappearances… These subjects probably sound a bit too fantasy for the average person. And it’s quite understandable. They’re supposed to sound made up. Throughout the mistranslation of time, and embellishment of these stories, facts were added or omitted. Some may be true and some may be false, but one thing’s for sure, if a global secret needed to remain hidden, yet began emerging among the public, the best cover up is to embellish or alter the story until it sounds ludicrous. So what happens when the secret involves the government and the government has intimate ties to the mainstream media. And the mainstream media, as said before, has been proven to sway at least 80% of the public’s opinion. The logic is undeniable. Media in every form is put in place to make people feel stupid for even keeping an open mind towards conspiracy theories.
Der östliche Teil des Mondsees, nicht weit vom Attersee und der Landesgrenze von Obersösterreich und Land Salzburg entfernt.
The eastern part of lake „Mondsee“ close to lake „Attersee“ and the border of the Austrian states Salzburg and Upper Austria.
© 2009 by Albert Bogner, Salzburg.
Mehr Info bei www.photospots.eu/mondsee-salzkammergut-grenze-zwischen-o.... (Photospot 47.8108716000444, 13.41381)
Für eine hochauflösende Präsentation dieser Serie mit Musik klicke zuerst auf Hintergrundmusik und danach auf Diaschau.
Klicke für eine Diaschau mit zufälligen Fotos aus meiner Galerie in HDTV oder XGA-Auflösung.
For a presentation in high resolution with music, first click on background music and afterwards on slideshow.
Click for a slideshow with random photos from my gallery in HDTV or XGA-resolution.
PENTAX K20D (smc PENTAX-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED), 1/500", f9.0 (EV 14.3), ISO 200, f=85mm (35mm equiv., 1.04x digital zoom)
Camera: Sony IPELA SNC-CH260
Output resolution: 1920x1080
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While watching a movie in my friend's awesome home theater, I held my camera between my legs for a 2 second reverse shot of his projector. My son and I thought the projector beam looked really cool so I had to try and capture it.
altes DDR-Hotel für SED-Funktionäre
Dieses Hotel liegt mitten im Wald, war in Zeiten der DDR geheim und streng mit Waffengewalt bewacht. Nach der Wende versuchte ein schweizer Gastronomieunternehmen, diese Wirtschaft weiter zu betreiben, jedoch aufgrund der Lage und der Geheimhaltung kennt es eben keiner! Das Hotel war in der DDR absoluter Luxus mit Westfernsehen, Importnahrungsmitteln (Bananen, Ananas usw.) und verfügte sogar über ein Poolhaus mit Sauna.
old GDR-hotel for SED bosses
Lying in the middle of the woods, this hotel was top secret and guarded by soldiers.
(Project 365 Day 176)
I took a picture of this TV in B J's Restaurant & Brewhouse because it's the first time I've ever seen a public HDTV display regular TV in pillarboxed format instead of distorted/stretched format. I was impressed. Details below:
So traditional TVs have an aspect ratio of 4:3. When you watch a movie on a normal TV, it's sometimes presented in "letterboxed" widescreen, which means you see the full picture as originally intended, with black empty spaces above and below the picture. Other times it's presented "pan & scan", where they crop the sides off of the image to fit your TV, customizing the cropping based on what makes sense for each shot. (The marketers love to call this "full screen", even though it actually means you're missing parts of the picture.) People used to get confused by letterboxing, wondering if parts of the picture are cut off, etc, but I think almost everyone understands it these days. In fact, some TV shows being shot for HDTV even broadcast in letterboxed format on normal TV these days. Which brings us to...
HDTVs have an aspect ratio of 16:9, which is wider than normal TV. This presents a bit of a problem when you're watching normal TV. To get the full picture, you would have empty spaces on the sides of the screen. (It's called "pillarboxing".) This presents two problems: (1) People aren't as comfortable about blank areas on the sides of their screen as they are about blank areas on the top and bottom. I think part of it is that people don't want to feel like they're wasting display area on their expensive HDTV. :P (2) Plasma TVs, the most common type of flat screen HDTVs, suffer from burn-in, such that if you leave the sides of the screen black and keep displaying stuff in the middle, the middle eventually turns a different shade from the sides.
To solve the second problem, plasma TVs usually come with gray bars (which will burn in the TV just as much as the rest of the image, on average, kind of an "I am Spartacus" way of damaging all the pixels equally so nothing stands out). That's what you see here. The problem, though, is that gray bars are even more ugly and annoying than black bars.
So then you really only have two options: You could ruthlessly crop off the top and bottom of the screen and fill the screen with the middle. Unfortunately, it's not logistically feasible to manually pan & scan every TV show, not to mention that movies are usually shot with pan & scanning in mind, whereas TV is not. So this usually cuts off important information and isn't very feasible. You could also simply distort and stretch the 4:3 image so it fills the whole 16:9 screen.
Who would want to spend $2000+ on a fancy new TV and watch most of their programming extra fat, as if it were on stretched-out silly putty? The answer: Almost everyone! I'd say about 90% of the time I see an HDTV, it's showing non-HD standard TV programming in stretched mode. I admit that the stretched images are not quite as annoying as you might expect, because our brains compensate for it to some degree, but I'm still baffled that this is the norm.
Anyway, this is why I'll never get a plasma HDTV. I don't want to watch my shows stretched, and I don't want those ugly gray bars, either. I'm waiting for LCD HDTV prices to come down before getting one of those. LCDs don't have that burn-in problem, so they can use black bars on the sides, which is far less annoying.
Still, I think I definitely prefer the gray bars to watching stretched images, and so I applaud B J's Restaurant and Brewhouse for giving us undistorted TV!
The ironic thing is that I didn't care at all about what was actually on TV there. :)
Amiga 500 boot screen on a high-def TV via HDMI. The Amiga outputs RGB, and thus is the perfect video generator for testing my converter.
A nice new big lcd tv, a cleaner-looking entertainment center (that matches the rest of our living room furniture), and a scaled down stereo system (sans cd player and tape deck, but now featuring streaming itunes) make for a more function and better looking entertainment system.