Sentences with phrase «like old televisions»

I programmed a CNC robot to paint on canvas various samples of white noise coming from sources like old televisions and telecommunication antennas.

But unlike so many other recent (or upcoming) Hollywood products, it was made from an original screenplay (Faber and Fisher previously wrote for TV sitcoms); it didn't come from a source that audiences are already familiar with, like an old television show or a previous movie.

But the nested bezels (yep, there are two separate display borders here) also give Pebble Time a very low screen - to - body ratio that makes it seem quite antiquated, like an old television set.

Not exact matches

Back in the old days of television programming — say, 15 years ago — most standup specials like Black's ran for a limited time on one of the three main cable channels that aired comedy (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central) before being shuffled off to the archives.

While older millennials looked to television shows like MTV's Total Request Live to tell them what was in style, today's teens are discovering trends and deciding for themselves.

While television has become the entertainment medium du jour — bolstered, no doubt, by binge - inducing services like Netflix — the hysteria surrounding a new podcast called Serial would seem to point to latent opportunities within a storytelling medium that feels both rife with potential and oddly old - fashioned.

And there's a good chance that the device, which offers old - school gaming for today's televisions, like Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, will be hard to find, based on early pre-orders.

Out of respect to the families of the victims and the survivors, and to prevent him from sending any coded signals to his supporters, the 37 - year - old extremist's testimony will not be broadcast on television like the rest of the proceedings, justice authorities have ruled.

Just like Facebook, Twitter, and good old television, YouTube makes money from ads — and therefore, from audiences» attention.

Smith often compares his company to CNN, and in many ways Vice has become the equivalent for many younger viewers who no longer watch traditional television, especially when it uses stale old formats like panels of aging white men debating politics.

All these new forms of media are constantly forming new connections both with each other and with older media like printing, radio, film, television, telephone, teletype, radar and so on.

Anthea Butler, a columnist with Religion Dispatches magazine, says Miller is invoking an old theme in fundamentalist and conservative churches: that any new media - like movies, television and radio - is sinful.

Like McWethy, Martin belongs to an older generation of reporters who imagined that television would provide them with a way to reach tens of millions of people with stories that shed real and necessary light on the actions of their government.

I was 11 or 12 years old; I was watching a lot of Julia Child on television, she was making this soup and it looked like fun.

In other words, your two - year - old can pick which game she wants to play, or which show she'd like to watch, but she shouldn't be deciding how long she gets to watch television or whether or not she has to take a bath afterwards.

In general, Dr. Frick has found that assigning a time out is effective for younger children, while taking away privileges like television and toys tends to be effective for older children.

Much like in an old tube television where a beam of electrons moves over a phosphor screen to create images, the new microscopy technique works by scanning a beam of electrons over a sample that has been coated with specially engineered quantum dots.

«It is like comparing an old standard definition television screen to today's ultra high definition screens,» said Saba, a member of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Ecosystem Assessment Program who works at GFDL.

Much like in an old tube television where a beam of electrons moves over a phosphor screen to create images, the new technique works by scanning a beam of electrons over a sample that has been coated with the quantum dots.

When I was about 15 years old I watched a television show that warned against the dangers of anorexia, bulimia and the likes.

But as best - selling author and television commentator Dr. Gail Saltz writes, «Seeing sex in only physical terms is an old - fashioned and ineffective approach that is based on a fundamental misunderstanding, like treating tuberculosis with breathing exercises, which we did before we knew that tuberculosis was caused by a bacterium.

The old women and younger men relationship is more popular just like some television reality shows.

A dramatized historic television show that might interest a 13 - year old about templar knights, with nicely groomed hair who yell and fight like WWE wrestlers.

«The Good Wife» is such old - school TV,» he says, adding, «but just like «CSI,» «Law and Order,» and «Jag», it shows that network television can still get good results.»

Back in the long ago days of 2012, the idea of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum teaming up for a buddy cop comedy adaptation of the»80s television series 21 Jump Street seemed like an absurd idea destined for failure, and the movie right away poked fun at the lack of originality in its concept along with the industry trend at large of adapting old series.

It felt like watching an old movie on a really battered, well - worn VHS tape and then watching the same movie's director's cut on Blu - ray on the biggest 3D television possible: the change in quality was dramatic in every way, from the video quality to the audio to the acting, writing, direction, special effects — everything.

Old characters, like the lonely lug played by Mickey Rourke — whose facial prosthetics call to mind Ron Perlman's leonine look from the late -»80s television series «Beauty and the Beast» — return, and new lambs line up to be slaughtered and deceived.

I think the old rules will fade out just like rotary phones and television antennas.

Like the first television shows that only played grainy recordings of theater shows, the ebook is a new medium that has yet to see any true innovation, and resorts to imitating an old medium.

There are hundreds of television, print, and radio venues, just like the old days.

It's a tricky amount to learn, but remember that your cover is like an old CRT television — expect the edges to be cut off as though it's a matted picture.

So older television sets, which show fewer frames per second than modern televisions, would appear to a dog to be flickering like a 1920s movie.

The game feels like it is trying to nail down the old television show vibe with the closing, «Next time on Agents of Mayhem ``, where a woman blows us a kiss and rides off (a possible hint at a new playable character in the next trailer?).

It's hard to put in words, but the story and interactions of characters seemed forced and almost like a poorly written old - timey, dinner time, radio show before television existed.

That's led to many players — who are tired of lugging around old CRT televisions to play the GameCube game on — to ask for a «Melee HD,» and it sounds like they may finally be getting it, or at least something close.

His spoken English remained ungrammatical and heavily accented and for relaxation in old age he liked watching television game shows.

Also among the works on display are a coffin - like black box filled with old paintings and a series of televisions showing a 1989 Channel 4 series about the legacy of ancient Greece.

The Czech national television doesn't share some of the older movies in their archive, in their own words because in the year they were buying distribution rights, nobody gave them the right to share the property via a system like the internet.

This is crucial because the actual cash value of an item like a ten - year - old television is basically zero!

This means that, instead of depreciating older items, like television sets, the policy compensates you enough money so you can buy another one.

They tend to remember emotions experienced by people better than those experienced by Muppets or animated characters, and they do not necessarily focus on emotions of the characters when retelling the narrative of a television program.5 By the time they reach age eight, however, children, especially girls, are more likely to mention characters» affective states when retelling a televised story.6 Older children also begin to understand television characters» more complex emotions, such as jealousy.7 Like their younger counterparts, older children's recall of affect is higher if they perceive the program as realisOlder children also begin to understand television characters» more complex emotions, such as jealousy.7 Like their younger counterparts, older children's recall of affect is higher if they perceive the program as realisolder children's recall of affect is higher if they perceive the program as realistic.8

It even seemed like this positive view of older women and younger men might carry over into everyday life, but then a series of television shows with the word «cougar» in them seemed to declare that women dating younger men was still not as acceptable as men dating younger women.