Common thought would have been small touch screen with a big monitor, but since their average viewer is over 65, I guess gigantic touch screens was an expectation.
Um...I have a 5 year old desktop with a 19in screen and I can display dozens of tweets at once, though honestly there's rarely any value in displaying even 1.
Consider who it's designed to impress - the average Fox viewer is either eighty years old or a complete idiot (or both). This is just the sort of thing that impresses stupid people.
There's another problem you didn't mention. The screens are displaying Shep Smith, which suggests that their anti-douchetrolley software is disabled.
@1, displaying tweets is the opposite of news, and serves only to further the bogus belief that getting one's dimwit opinions, or anyone's, displayed on a screen in a newsroom validates them, or you. Unless your goal is to find out what people who don't know anything think about things. There's far too much of this on the sports programs; to see it on the news is rather sad. But then, everything about Shep Smith's existence is sad.
What's also sad is that this giant piece of fancy technology displays FOUR TWEETS. That's like bragging about your scrolling billboard that displays the time and temp and inspirational message of the day. It's lame.
But then, Fox News is nothing but a deep-cover program of The Onion, right? I mean, they're even reporting on fake news stories now -- not just ordinary fake (i.e., "wrong") news stories like they always have, but stories taken from parody sites.
@8 you are the second most tiresome person on slog, just behind Seattleblues. You are however tied with SB for least intelligent person on slog, so, uh, congratulations, I guess.
Not impressed, at all. But then again, yes, as has been pointed out, I'm not in the Fox News demographic.
But this is so bad, so much ridiculous fluff and colors, all shiny packaging and no content, all cheap entertainment instead of news substance, that I don't think it will catch on. It's just so annoying. It's a prime example of what's wrong with television today.
@15, no. Shep is the smuggest. Not necessarily the worst (he's a contender, but he'll never win until Hannity has an aneurysm and dies) but the smuggest. Which is odd, because he is also the most perplexed. I seriously believe he is flabbergasted every time the lights come on in the room.
It's amazing how many otherwise intelligent people there are in the world who don't understand what stage makeup is, or what it looks like without stage lighting.
@23, you know, I work on a couple of hundred Windows machines every day, and I haven't seen a BSOD in years. I think what's more likely (and funnier) is a big ol' "Updating, 3.8 MB out of 287.4 MB downloaded" window ticking away over the main screens.
@25 - You're probably right—better yet, whatever a diligent hacker finds most hilarious.
BUT, if you miss that special shade of blue, I might recommend Adobe Premiere. It's a fantastic program that's made HUGE strides in just a few years, but... yeah... memory dumps. Ugh.
@10, I beg to differ. I disagree with raindrop on virtually every subject on which an opinion can be formed, but he's not in the elite class of Slog a-holes. You're forgetting Supreme Ruler, Will in Seattle, Unbrainwashed/Noicons/CodyTheRodeoStar/ whateverhe'scalledtoday, Cascadian Bacon (my choice), and bunch whose names I'm forgetting.
@27/10: Fnarf is correct. Raindrop may frequently be wrong, and some of his posts seem like they're very subtle trolls, but he comports himself with dignity, and should be treated the same. He presents himself as willing to engage, and we owe him the same respect.
Also, on Shep Smith, he may be a giant tool, but at least he has called out Fox/the GOP on its gay hating.
I have participated in a few technology focus groups and I'm trying to imagine the research that led to the failed enterprise design approach, the endless this-or-that or what-is-more-futuristic-looking questions. Think of what those focus group participants looked like. Holy crap
so great to see them keeping up with people using those new technologies like "Computers" "cell phones" and "the internet". Hey they said it!
I am briefly taking time out to check email and look at the news, briefly is the key word here, I don't care about any of what they are talking about. I think many people are over this crap and TV trying desperately to seem relevant like they think computers are. Who cares!
Today I had a Bobcat trying to get a few chickens (no big deal really) and I took a walk through the forest and took pictures of mushrooms and sat for awhile beneath a tree. It was raining a little but quiet, a woodpecker scaled another tree close to me.
I don't give a rats ass and never will give a rats ass about how news is being delivered to me and who "Tweeted" about it first.
I will drive back to the city tomorrow and probably will see someone texting while driving or doing some other thing they have no will power to control. Thinking that they have to be connected to crap like FOX news and their giant ass touch screens. Nothing they showed seemed new. And don't get me started on that Ted Knight anchor guy.
Ohmygodimdying. The 30-something foot-long screen that allows him the revolutionary new journalism-furthering technique of shuffling photos. Cannot wait to see the live on-air havoc this expensive, useless shit, causes.
Frankly speaking, this is not my first time to see the big screen. In my mind, 55'' is not so giant as it's promoted. You can find much larger one here:
http://tabler.tv/
@1, displaying tweets is the opposite of news, and serves only to further the bogus belief that getting one's dimwit opinions, or anyone's, displayed on a screen in a newsroom validates them, or you. Unless your goal is to find out what people who don't know anything think about things. There's far too much of this on the sports programs; to see it on the news is rather sad. But then, everything about Shep Smith's existence is sad.
What's also sad is that this giant piece of fancy technology displays FOUR TWEETS. That's like bragging about your scrolling billboard that displays the time and temp and inspirational message of the day. It's lame.
But then, Fox News is nothing but a deep-cover program of The Onion, right? I mean, they're even reporting on fake news stories now -- not just ordinary fake (i.e., "wrong") news stories like they always have, but stories taken from parody sites.
But this is so bad, so much ridiculous fluff and colors, all shiny packaging and no content, all cheap entertainment instead of news substance, that I don't think it will catch on. It's just so annoying. It's a prime example of what's wrong with television today.
It's amazing how many otherwise intelligent people there are in the world who don't understand what stage makeup is, or what it looks like without stage lighting.
I am, however, looking forward to massive, 55" BSODs peppering the background of their live broadcasts.
BUT, if you miss that special shade of blue, I might recommend Adobe Premiere. It's a fantastic program that's made HUGE strides in just a few years, but... yeah... memory dumps. Ugh.
Also, on Shep Smith, he may be a giant tool, but at least he has called out Fox/the GOP on its gay hating.
@28: "he comports himself with dignity"
Does he really?
I am briefly taking time out to check email and look at the news, briefly is the key word here, I don't care about any of what they are talking about. I think many people are over this crap and TV trying desperately to seem relevant like they think computers are. Who cares!
Today I had a Bobcat trying to get a few chickens (no big deal really) and I took a walk through the forest and took pictures of mushrooms and sat for awhile beneath a tree. It was raining a little but quiet, a woodpecker scaled another tree close to me.
I don't give a rats ass and never will give a rats ass about how news is being delivered to me and who "Tweeted" about it first.
I will drive back to the city tomorrow and probably will see someone texting while driving or doing some other thing they have no will power to control. Thinking that they have to be connected to crap like FOX news and their giant ass touch screens. Nothing they showed seemed new. And don't get me started on that Ted Knight anchor guy.
Also, given their history of fact checking I propose we hit them with a tweet storm about zombies on the 30th ala Orson Wells.
My arms hurt just looking at that shit.
http://tabler.tv/