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14 Dec 2004 05:34:31 AM |
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OT: Yet another annoyance in life |
The other night, I go and rent a video (no plugs, but it
was in the theatres last summer). Normally when I put
in a VHS tape, I hit stop and fast forward six minutes
on the counter; for years, that was about the length of
advertisements (read: product whoring) and "movie promos"
(read: advertisements) at the start of new movies.
Not this time. FIFTEEN freaking minutes of ads. I am
sorely tempted to buy adbusters "anti-commercials" and
dub them over the tape, or just blank it out with the A/V
black screen on my VCR.
Of course, the film companies who do this are the same
assholes who want to prevent you from fast forwarding
through their DVDs.
Bob Dog
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Yet another annoyance in life |
14 Dec 2004 06:43:22 AM |
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In our last episode
<1103024071.640137.182940@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, bg12345 lept out
of the bushes shouting:
The other night, I go and rent a video (no plugs, but it was in the
theatres last summer). Normally when I put in a VHS tape, I hit stop and
fast forward six minutes on the counter; for years, that was about the
length of advertisements (read: product whoring) and "movie promos" (read:
advertisements) at the start of new movies.
Not this time. FIFTEEN freaking minutes of ads. I am sorely tempted to
buy adbusters "anti-commercials" and dub them over the tape, or just blank
it out with the A/V black screen on my VCR.
Of course, the film companies who do this are the same assholes who want
to prevent you from fast forwarding through their DVDs.
Not to mention that the amount of TV commercials has risen to highs of 18
minutes per hour. I've started noticing that the Tivo's 30 minute buffer
isn't enough to let me skip through a movie's worth of commercials
anymore. Have to record the whole thing and watch it after it's finished
(or at least almost totally finished) being broadcast.
So what's Tivo doing? They're getting ready to sell ad time for the fast
forward period. Hit the fast forward to get past a commercial and they're
going to pop up a commercial.
I wonder what part of "I don't want your crap" the marketeers are having
so much trouble understanding...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Being surprised at the fact that the universe
is fine tuned for life is akin to a puddle being
surprised at how well it fits its hole"
-- Douglas Adams
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Yet another annoyance in life |
14 Dec 2004 05:53:18 PM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in
news:hdednbLZj_e1QiPcRVn-pw@megapath.net:
In our last episode
<1103024071.640137.182940@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, bg12345 lept
out of the bushes shouting:
The other night, I go and rent a video (no plugs, but it was in the
theatres last summer). Normally when I put in a VHS tape, I hit stop
and fast forward six minutes on the counter; for years, that was
about the length of advertisements (read: product whoring) and "movie
promos" (read: advertisements) at the start of new movies.
Not this time. FIFTEEN freaking minutes of ads. I am sorely tempted
to buy adbusters "anti-commercials" and dub them over the tape, or
just blank it out with the A/V black screen on my VCR.
Of course, the film companies who do this are the same assholes who
want to prevent you from fast forwarding through their DVDs.
Not to mention that the amount of TV commercials has risen to highs of
18 minutes per hour. I've started noticing that the Tivo's 30 minute
buffer isn't enough to let me skip through a movie's worth of
commercials anymore. Have to record the whole thing and watch it after
it's finished (or at least almost totally finished) being broadcast.
So what's Tivo doing? They're getting ready to sell ad time for the
fast forward period. Hit the fast forward to get past a commercial and
they're going to pop up a commercial.
I wonder what part of "I don't want your crap" the marketeers are
having so much trouble understanding...
If it sells one item, that's all they care about. Sucks for them that I
mute the TV whenever commercials are running.
--
Dr. Smartass -- BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
You can lead a horse to water...
....and with proper use of levers, rope, and duct tape,
you CAN make it drink.
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| User: "Siobhan Burke" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Yet another annoyance in life |
16 Dec 2004 08:50:15 AM |
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In article <hdednbLZj_e1QiPcRVn-pw@megapath.net>, alt-
atheism@org.webmaster says...
In our last episode
<1103024071.640137.182940@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, bg12345 lept out
of the bushes shouting:
The other night, I go and rent a video (no plugs, but it was in the
theatres last summer). Normally when I put in a VHS tape, I hit stop and
fast forward six minutes on the counter; for years, that was about the
length of advertisements (read: product whoring) and "movie promos" (read:
advertisements) at the start of new movies.
Not this time. FIFTEEN freaking minutes of ads. I am sorely tempted to
buy adbusters "anti-commercials" and dub them over the tape, or just blank
it out with the A/V black screen on my VCR.
Of course, the film companies who do this are the same assholes who want
to prevent you from fast forwarding through their DVDs.
Not to mention that the amount of TV commercials has risen to highs of 18
minutes per hour. I've started noticing that the Tivo's 30 minute buffer
isn't enough to let me skip through a movie's worth of commercials
anymore. Have to record the whole thing and watch it after it's finished
(or at least almost totally finished) being broadcast.
So what's Tivo doing? They're getting ready to sell ad time for the fast
forward period. Hit the fast forward to get past a commercial and they're
going to pop up a commercial.
I wonder what part of "I don't want your crap" the marketeers are having
so much trouble understanding...
All of it. A lot of the recent Universal Studio DVDs have
previews that you can't skip, now. You can't skip them, and you
can't get to the menu until they're finished. You can fast
forward through them, but how long before they figure a way to
block that. Pisses me off no end. I don't mind them including
previews, and will watch them after I've finished watching the
film, but I tend not to purchase any film that they've promoted
by force.
--
Siobhan
"But as a general rule, when things look bad there's always some
***** who can make them worse." -- Terry Pratchett
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| User: "Meteorite Debris" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Yet another annoyance in life |
15 Dec 2004 12:25:32 AM |
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On 14 Dec 2004 03:34:31 -0800 the ET form known as
bg12345@apexmail.com<bg12345@apexmail.com> sent a radio signal across
the vast expanse of deep space -._.--._.--._.--._.--._.--._.
The other night, I go and rent a video (no plugs, but it
was in the theatres last summer). Normally when I put
in a VHS tape, I hit stop and fast forward six minutes
on the counter; for years, that was about the length of
advertisements (read: product whoring) and "movie promos"
(read: advertisements) at the start of new movies.
Not this time. FIFTEEN freaking minutes of ads. I am
sorely tempted to buy adbusters "anti-commercials" and
dub them over the tape, or just blank it out with the A/V
black screen on my VCR.
Of course, the film companies who do this are the same
assholes who want to prevent you from fast forwarding
through their DVDs.
I also fast forward in that fashion. When I rewind I take the tape to
the end of the crap before returning hoping the next customer will be
grateful. I think the crap at the start was possibly the reason for
that most annoying feature of every VCR - the autoplay on loading. But
with DVD you can not FF through the rubbish at the start.
--
epicurus1*at*optusnet*dot*com*dot*au
apatriot #1, atheist #1417,
Chief EAC prophet
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~pk1956/
Apatriotism Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apatriotism
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves
were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in
Hell.
-Mencken
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| User: "Pat Kiewicz" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Yet another annoyance in life |
15 Dec 2004 06:56:54 AM |
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Meteorite Debris said:
On 14 Dec 2004 03:34:31 -0800 the ET form known as
bg12345@apexmail.com<bg12345@apexmail.com> sent a radio signal across
the vast expanse of deep space -._.--._.--._.--._.--._.--._.
Of course, the film companies who do this are the same
assholes who want to prevent you from fast forwarding
through their DVDs.
I also fast forward in that fashion. When I rewind I take the tape to
the end of the crap before returning hoping the next customer will be
grateful. I think the crap at the start was possibly the reason for
that most annoying feature of every VCR - the autoplay on loading. But
with DVD you can not FF through the rubbish at the start.
Other than the FBI warnings (which you can never skip when they are at the
beginning) you can usually use SKIP (skip to next chapter, >>| ) to go through
the various intros and promos when hitting MENU doesn't work. (Not all DVD
makers put the FBI warning at the beginning, for which I am grateful.)
I took me a while to figure out that you could use the SKIP on the DVDs that
wouldn't let you use MENU (or FWD) -- it wasn't intuitively obvious.
What I find annoying are the foreign language DVDs that default to the English
dub. And foreign language DVDs that don't have subtitles for the hearing impaired
so spoken English and important sound cues aren't captioned. (I do a lot of
watching while treadmilling and I rely on captioning.)
--
Pat K. aa#1154 ('someplace.net' is comcast)
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)
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| User: "Tukla Ratte" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Yet another annoyance in life |
15 Dec 2004 03:32:12 PM |
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Meteorite Debris wrote:
< snip >
I think the crap at the start was possibly the reason for
that most annoying feature of every VCR - the autoplay on loading.
Hmm. I dunno. My older (late-80s) commercial tapes have few, if any,
promos at the beginning, but autoplay was already in place. I always
figured it was for the technophobes who couldn't grok the "Play" button.
< snip >
--
Tukla, Eater of Theists, Squeaker of Chew Toys
Official Mascot of Alt.Atheism, aa 1347
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| User: "Beth" |
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15 Dec 2004 05:29:53 PM |
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:55:32 +1030, Meteorite Debris <abuse@yahoo.com>
said in alt.atheism:
I also fast forward in that fashion. When I rewind I take the tape to
the end of the crap before returning hoping the next customer will be
grateful. I think the crap at the start was possibly the reason for
that most annoying feature of every VCR - the autoplay on loading. But
with DVD you can not FF through the rubbish at the start.
Nononono! That's not so you're forced to watch the ads. That's a
courtesy, so you can pop in the DVD, then have time to get several
bags of chips and a six-pack of Tooheys Old arranged nicely on your
end table before you come back and watch the movie. That way no crumbs
or bits of seasoning from the chips, or condensation from the beer
bottles get on your DVD, which could possibly mar your movie
experience.
--
Beth #859
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