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Red Shoe: Perhaps I'm too suspicious, but I rather suspect that the increasing prevalence of these bugs is the fault of Digital Video Recorders: first, to get advertising through to people who commercial-skip, and secondly, to render off-air recordings (even more) inferior to expensive DVD box-sets (I've actually noticed that the worst advertising bugs tend to be more common for shows that have been released on DVD).
Ununnilium: I dunno, they started getting prevalent in the late 90s, and DVR wasn't common until a few years later.
screw-the-duelists-i-have-money-in-america: there's this thing during sci-fi channel x-files reruns where it tells you that stargate is on next but it always covers up a couple of the guest stars for the episode would that count, in America?
thatother1dude: I remember something very funny (I'm not sure whether this is intentional or not) in an ep of Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy were someone was translating for Billy to the people in a village in Nepal (intentionally lying that he said he was building an oil-refinery when he was asking if he could take a photo) and an ad pops up blocking the bottom part of the subtitle so it cuts off halfway and only read (this is as well as I can remember) "I need the children to go down and work the....
I thought this might was an accident but am wondering as when I saw a repeat of it I noticed the same part got covered and at the same time and started wondering if someone was really good at Getting Crap Past The Radar enough to time it so that exact part would be blocked
Octal: Lower tenth? That seems like a very conservative estimate. Anonymous: I remember some tense thriller movie being on... must have been FX? Maybe TNT. Anyways, in the middle of this incredibly tense, quiet, dark scene with the building music, so suspenseful... VROOM VROOM WATCH NASCAR THIS WEEKEND!!! It was genuinely startling. I hated that. Anyone else had this happen? Kilyle: I don't find the "what show you're watching" bits so bad... the style might be too loud or flashy or in the wrong place or what, and that's bad, but the usefulness is for those who are channel surfing or have just gotten bored enough to turn on the TV mid-show, and are wondering "What the heck is this show and why did those scarab beetles just crawl up that guy's nose?" or the like. This is especially useful for movies - many's the time I've caught just the tale end of a movie and gone, "Man, with I could see the whole thing, now" - and yet have not one word said about what it was I just missed. It's irritating. And looking them up online should be a snap, but often is an irritating venture in and of itself. Haibane: With modern cable systems all you need to do to find out what network and show you're watching is to press the "info" button on the remote. The "what show you're watching" pop-up is unnecessary for that purpose. |
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