From: Ronn Blankenship
At 10:26 AM 1/3/02, Sonja wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:12:29PM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > > > That system would prabably not work well over here. Now a days on some > > > channels they skip _any_ form of separation between CB and movie. Something that torques me off is what they have been doing for a couple of years or so: reducing the credits to a narrow column on the side of the screen while playing commercials on the rest of the screen. Not only is the type in the column so small as to be completely unreadable, but frequently they also do a fast roll, so though they technically showed everybody's name that they legally have to, there's no way anyone can read them. Sometimes not even if you tape it and play it back at a slow speed. -- Ronn! :) As long as we are in bitch about TV mode: Futurerama plays at 7pm here and the state has their daily gambling drawings at 7. One station in a market has the 'live' camera feed of the drawings. The others reduce the video screen and put the result in the border, along with an advertisement. But not FOX! They just plaster over the bottom 1/6 of the program and leave it up for two minutes or until a commercial starts, whatever comes first. What do you think the subset is of people who watch Futurerama AND can't wait 30 minutes to know if their idiot tax paid off? There are plenty of programs that it wouldn't matter if the whole screen was covered but this show is like MAD magazine: it uses the whole page and the borders. Another peeve: during major sporting events the national station will have it's logo on the screen AND the local one will also put up one, usually covering the action. I have no trouble with them doing this during lulls, but not during the action. Sometimes you can't tell if the bowler left 7-10 or 7-6,10 split! Bitch off Kevin T.
