Differences NTSC or PAL on DVD’s
quote:
Originally posted by jkd112:
Just goes to show how silly censorship is in the States… You can’t show naked breasts on TV, but you can show someone getting their head cut off… go figure…
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.
Indeed, there is a lot of nudity on the cable public access channels in NYC (at least when I lived there). The silly aspects that you are talking about are the result of MARKET forces such as advertising and whether cable distributers will agree to carry a channel. The thing that gets my goat is that we pay extra for cable, and one would think that they would not then slavishly bow to advertisers etc. but apparantly that is not the case!