Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat" video.

  1. 7:03 What’s really bad is that the second r in “Corporation” is not capitalized as well. “TelePrompTer CorpoRation” ... now isn’t that better?
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  2. There was the time I lost my grip on reality ... oh wait, that never happened.
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  3.  @tomasbickel58  The light reflects from below towards the presenter, not towards the lens.
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  4. 0:24 “Trying my hardest ... low-effort” ... how to succeed at deadpan humour without really trying ...
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  5. 8:20 Surely there must already be some open-source text-scrolling software for Linux or Android. How hard could it be to write?
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  6. That tune somehow takes me back to being at an audio hi-fi store sometime in the 1970s, listening to a demo of this new thing called “quadraphonic” ...
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  7.  @DeviantOllam  I remember Watch Mr Wizard being on t’telly when I were a wee lad back in the old country. I remember very few details about the episodes, except the one where he demonstrated an atomic chain reaction using an aquarium full of ping-pong balls sitting on armed mousetraps. Incidentally, Jim Al-Khalili did the same demo.
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  8. 7:56 Just to point out, the late, great Jacob Bronowski had to speak all his lines without a teleprompter. Yeah, go and watch that classic 1971 doco The Ascent Of Man again. And admire his brilliance and erudition. And ability to explain things simply. And being on first-name terms with several members of the Manhattan Project ... ummm, where was I?
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  9. With 4K, you might still see nose hairs from across the street.
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  10.  @renakunisaki  Hey, this is YouTube, not broadcast TV. ;)
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