Ronn Blankenship schreef: > At 10:26 AM 1/3/02, Sonja wrote: > >Erik Reuter schreef: > > > > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:12:29PM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > 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.
Huh? How do you mean credits? Over here most movies only have a black screen with the company name that sold it and the year it was made it. Heck sometimes they even omit parts of the last scene in a movie to make more room for commercials. How do we know? Well lucky for us we can still recieve BBC and other non commercial broadcasting services that do show all of the movie, without nasty interruptions. Only acception is with BBC. Their movies have to be 'decent and in good taste'. ;o) > Does your current VCR have frame-by-frame capability? (One of mine, the > then-top-of-the-line Sony, does.) If so, you could take a tape of a movie > that seemed to you not to have any break between the program and the > commercial, run it to just before the break, then step through > frame-by-frame to see if there were any black frames in between. Yes it does. You made me curious. Next time I come acros this I'll check. > >With some movies there were instances were we were totally confused about the > >continuity in a scene, only to realise a few seconds later that we were > >looking at commercials instead of movie. > > Yeah. And what's even worse is when the commercial makes more sense than > the movie it interrupted . . . ;-) LOL > >I'm not sure if a signal for begin and end of commercials is provided, but > >(considering the stupidity of most commercials) it would be absolutely devine > >to kill all of them at the touch of a button. :o) > > Which of course is the reason they would make such a signal as undetectable > as possible or eliminate it altogether. > Remember: the only reason they make the program at all is to entice you to > see the commercials. If a commercial is too annoying, I skip the advertised product. I refuse to buy it. Especially if it is something I'd normally use. I make a point of switching brands to something that is less annoying on tv. Sonja
