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| I'm watching a movie on TV and all of a sudden one fourth to one third of the screen gets taken up by an ad for another show. And it stays and stays, sometimes with moving graphics.
I think the worst of these was an ad for the Anna Nicole Show - not only did it interrupt the movie, but they had her animated dog begin to yap! An-NOY-ing!! |
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| That would set me off, too. I'm sure glad my cable company doesn't do that --- yet :P |
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- Posted by moongirl0719 (My Page) on Thu, May 12, 05 at 10:15
| I've had this discussion with my co-workers. It ticks us off too. It seems that these pop-up ads in the corners of the screen are all too common these days. It even happens during TV shows. I'm watching a show and I see ads for the network's mini-series - "Don't forget! When A Mother Cries. This Wed" or whatever junk they have coming up. It's very obnoxious! |
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| I'm annoyed with the amount of times the local stations interupt shows with "important" news breaks. The news is hardly ever important or time sensitive IMHO. And, they always seem to interupt at the end of programs. (Like they know if they do it in the beggining you'll just change channels since they made you miss a part of the show). I don't know why, but it seems like there are just more and more interuptions. I mean, yes it's news that someone got shot trying to rob bank, but can't we wait to hear about it at the news time (especially when news time is only 10 minutes away). And I really don't think a thunderstorm 2 states away is breaking news. Furthermore, why do they interupt soap operas to report and show the entire news conference of some footplayer joining a team? Do most soap fans really care? I really doubt they would interupt a football game to do the same. |
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| What ticks me off is the credits are run so fast it's impossible to read them. It seems they are filmed like that. I rarely watch TV with commercials but it happens on the two PBS channels I watch too. I borrowed two VHS tapes of 'Elizabeth R' [1971] from the library and the viewer can read them because they are a decent size and stay on screen long enough. |
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