Differences NTSC or PAL on DVD’s
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Originally posted by lizard:
OK, I know that this is a bit of a pointless point, but there is no censorship of cable TV in the US. Each channel pretty much decides for itself what is acceptable, there are plenty of bare breasts shown on “Wild ON” for example. The absurd behavior of US SCIFi channel is due to their own fear that someone in Idaho will start a morality campaign against them if a nipple is shown during Lexx.
Absolutely right. The FCC, which is the US governmental agencey that sets the standard for what is “acceptable” and “unacceptable” to be depicted or spoken of on TV or radio, only has power over *broadcast* media. That is any transmission that takes place over the airwaves rather than cable or satellite transmissions. What cable channels acquiesce to are the demands of advertisers. While the FCC can monitor what goes on on the networks, cable channels (such as MTV, SciFi, Comedy Central, etc.) are free to do whatever they choose as long as they don’t face losing advertisers. What advertisers are afraid of is bad press and organized boycotts, and cable channels are afraid of losing their monetary input, so they essentially set up their own standards of what is acceptable. This is why a recent episode of [i]South Park[/i] featured the word “sh!t” something like 217 times. The sponsors allowed to let it slide, knowing that something like this was probably one of the least of [i]South Park[/i]’s offenses.
–Aleck