GratefulFlyers Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 So now they're running them while the game is going on. Unbelievable. I'm sure you've seen them, split-screen video, talking right over the action. How greedy must you be to come up with that? it's so damn obnoxious. And it's only going to get worse - pretty soon we'll have a permanent split-screen. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojo1917 Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 (edited) @GratefulFlyers How is this different than any other sporting event? Soccer, auto racing, nearly every televised sporting event that does not have stoppages built into its play does this. If guys keep the puck out of the net, don't commit any penalties and keep the puck in the rink, the play is continous. Ever seen a mobile television production? All those people, that technical magic and live event story telling expertise isn't free. I don't see where split screen ads is any kind of problem -you're not actually missing the game play. Also is Kenny Albert's voice a requirement to enjoy, anything ? I mean he's okay... Your post has a person yells at cloud feeling to it. I invite you to remember that the "good old days" weren't. Edited June 4, 2022 by mojo1917 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratefulFlyers Posted June 4, 2022 Author Share Posted June 4, 2022 47 minutes ago, mojo1917 said: you're not actually missing the game play. Brilliant, an ad industry talking point even they won't use in public. 52 minutes ago, mojo1917 said: Ever seen a mobile television production? All those people, that technical magic and live event story telling expertise isn't free. Are you sure you want to be a life coach? Masquerading insults as a rationale can be good fun but you'll have to be better than "they need to eat too ya know." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojo1917 Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, GratefulFlyers said: Brilliant, an ad industry talking point even they won't use in public. Where's the lie? 1 hour ago, GratefulFlyers said: Are you sure you want to be a life coach? Never claimed to be one. However, not getting bunched up about patches on jerseys and commercials during a sporting event, has helped my blood pressure stay in the healthy range. Also. Sorry. I spend an inordinate amount of time with people who complain about what I deem to be trivial things and whose default is "people now are terrible and everything was better when". your post was the one thin mint that caused calamity. The link is from Monty Python's Life of Brian. I should have just skipped that post. Edited June 4, 2022 by mojo1917 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Lando Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 I honestly don't have any issue with it. I suppose I tune those half screen commercials out just as easily as I do when I am watching a show and a commercial comes on and I tune that out until the show returns. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Math Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Bothering but could be worse. I guess it's a socially acceptable compromise to help having a quality product while generating more revenues in this challenging period... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Lando Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 I understand the whole financial aspect of it all so it is what it is. There are so many other things in this world to worry about more than my screen being split with commercials while I am watching a hockey game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratefulFlyers Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 ... from an essay by Thomas Frank written in 1994 called Dark Age: Why Johnny Can't Dissent Full essay Quote What reformed adman Earl Shorris has written of the early promise of TV may finally be accomplished in the near future: “Reality did not cease to exist, of course, but much of what people understood as reality, including virtually all of the commercial world, was mediated by television. It was as if a salesman had been placed between Americans and life.” TV is no longer merely “entertainment,” it is on the verge of becoming the ineluctable center of human consciousness, the site of every sort of exchange. As the Information Revolution proceeds the myths, assumptions, and folklores of business become the common language of humanity; business culture becomes human culture. Working and consuming from our houses, wired happily into what Harper’s magazine has called the “electronic hive,” we will each be corporate subjects—consumers and providers of “content”—as surely as were the hapless industrial proletarians of the last century. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojo1917 Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 (edited) @GratefulFlyers Interesting that the essay was written before the internet. Which to me represents your quote on steroids. IMO our society is not well and Thomas Frank isn't wrong, that is a good point. Edited June 12, 2022 by mojo1917 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratefulFlyers Posted June 12, 2022 Author Share Posted June 12, 2022 36 minutes ago, mojo1917 said: Interesting that the essay was written before the internet. Well we had dial-up so it was there, just slow and unreliable. Minutes to load a page with pictures. No video. It's come a long way and Thomas Frank was incredibly prescient - he was saying in '94 what a lot of folks are just realizing now, that we citizens/consumers, we are the product. Everything that makes our lives our own, unique, is now a commodity - bought and sold. And what do we get for trading away our personal lives? TV that shows commercials during the fkng game!! lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Math Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, GratefulFlyers said: Well we had dial-up so it was there, just slow and unreliable. Driiing Driiing... "DON'T PICK UP THE PHONE !!!" Such a classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratefulFlyers Posted June 12, 2022 Author Share Posted June 12, 2022 right! and that stupid static - kkkkhhhhhhkkk, BEEEEP, khhhhhhhhkkkkhhh... Ah FI-nallly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojo1917 Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 59 minutes ago, GratefulFlyers said: Well we had dial-up so it was there, just slow and unreliable. Minutes to load a page with pictures. No video. It's come a long way Maybe you did, I really didn't fool with the www until, you'll love the irony of this, my boss told me to get on the internet and buy something. I chose CD now, which turned into Amazon. That was 1997. The internet was slow and stupid. We've long been the product. It's just a way worse feeling now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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