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October 27

Null day

Nothing entertaining today! hydnjo talk 00:19, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

movies

why do most of the movies are released on friday? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Betaji007 (talk • contribs) 06:08, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Because it gets people into the theaters on a day when they're most likely going out anyway. Also, if it were released on, for example, a Monday, then your friends or someone you work with may have seen it and told you it was no good. So by releasing it on Friday, you might just go see it based solely on what commercials you've seen for it or trailers that you saw before other movies. Then they theater and the movie producers make their money even if you don't like it. Dismas|^(talk) 16:13, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting that you chose the negative problems of a Monday release. Potentially you could have people who saw it on Monday, come to work and bang on about it all day inspiring others to go...Of course the first part is surely correct, it must be to get the weekend-crowd. ny156uk 23:26, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

High definition tv

I am told that HDTV needs to be specially hard wired. From what to what, I wonder? - Kittybrewster ☎ 13:29, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In what context? HD signals tend to use different cable to the TV (technically, the monitor), either component video or HDMI. That said, HD via cable still runs over standard coaxial cable. If you've got an HDTV with an HD tuner (as opposed to a tunerless monitor), there's no technical reason that you couldn't go straight into the TV with the cable as is the norm with standard def. In practice, however, HD tends to run through some intermediate box. The primary exception to this, interestingly enough, further discredits the need for special hardwiring: HD signals can be received over the air via antenna (granted, an antenna for that frequency band is needed, but that's the case for any antenna setup) -- no hardwiring at all! — Lomn 13:08, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's worth adding on the antenna issue, that the frequency in the US is in the same range as analog TV so you do not need a special HDTV antenna to receive digital signals. Donald Hosek 19:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NaRuTo ???????

Where to watch NaRuTo or NaRuTo shippuden???? THANKS IN ADVANCE Sangeeth —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sangeeth (talk • contribs) 19:53, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That depends... what country are you in? Where I live, in the United States, according to this, I could watch it on Cartoon Network on Saturdays at 9. Say, that's today! Too bad I don't have cable. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 20:27, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And from the looks of it, there are still a few hundred episodes, plus a movie or two, that haven't seen English broadcast yet, that they need to get through before they start on Shippuden. Confusing Manifestation 03:17, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

YouTube.

Zeitgeist movie

Everybody keeps talking about a movie called Zeitgeist but i don't see an article about it on wikipedia. what is going on? Was it deleted for some strange reason?--Sonjaaa 20:32, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a lengthy AfD discussion, if you're interested. And this may or may not be the article - it's in someone's user space: User:Iulian28ti/Desk/Zeitgeist Movie Project. --Joelmills 21:09, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do we get it undeleted? It seems to be an important film or phenomenon, but I would like to read a Wikipedia NPOV article about the film before I decide if I want to view the film.--Sonjaaa 22:04, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Considering the AfD discussion, the article that was deleted probably failed to achieve NPOV. Apparently it has been repeatedly added and deleted as a "Self-published internet movie with no assertion of notability whatsoever, no reliable sources, no mainstream media attention, etc", but the film makers insist it is quite important. Also see Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? for more info on the deletion process.

If you are still interested, you can search Google Video for "Zeitgeist the Movie" and watch the thing online, along with other self-produced 9/11 speculations. / edg ☺ ★ 22:14, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]