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Subject: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Bobert Date: 29 Mar 03 - 09:26 PM Hey, what gives? Every danged network has this consatnt scrooly thing at the bottom of the TV! Purdy danged irritatin'! Got so bad that I had to put black electrical tape over the bottom of the screen. Like who thunk this up? And where do they live? And when do they sleep? Aaargggghhhh! Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: wysiwyg Date: 29 Mar 03 - 09:33 PM LOL!!! We put on the (black electrical) tape within a week of 9/11. Ya mean the scrolly thing's been missing for awhile and now it's back? What next, popup ads while TV shows are on? They already do them to advertise their own upcoming shows! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: JennyO Date: 30 Mar 03 - 12:30 AM Have you noticed that if you watch the scrolly thing for a while then look up at the picture, your eyes have gone funny and the picture looks all wavy? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Coyote Breath Date: 30 Mar 03 - 12:31 AM I got so annoyed with the "station logo" in the lower right hand corner (slightly "ghosted") that I called up one of the local TV stations. "why do you put those ghosted logos on screen all the time?" "We do that so when people channel surf they know which channel they land on." "Well, what if they channel surf during a commercial break?" (when all that annoying stuff isn't displayed) "uhh......" We also have the Weather Idiots blathering all the time. Here in Missouri we do have the occasional "severe" storm. But they are just as bad in the SF Bay area where there are fog cycles for half the year and rain for the other half. Each TV station now has at least FOUR weather nerds. Of course they don't look out the windows so they usually get it wrong. They feel compelled to interrupt programs with weather watches and warnings and teasers for future weather reports. The night the USA started its lunacy in Iraq (9:15 PM, CST) the local CBS channel superimposed a map of their "viewing" area so we could see that two counties, almost up at the Iowa line, had severe weather "advisories"!! Aye Bobert, those "ticker tape" scrollies are the "Next Big Thing" and surely "pop-ups" are coming! Almost NO channel or network is free of this and other forms of eye polution. It will get worse. And people wonder why I don't BUY cable or a dish network. I wouldn't spend a dime on anything having to do with television broadcasting. I want to market a "commercial blackout device" It will sense when a commercial is about to be broadcast and automatically present a soothing image and music until the comercial break is over. In MY dreamworld, you could program the CBD to run clips from your favorite movie, video of your daughter's wedding, or other more enjoyable visual fare during the "break". If I could figure out how to make that device I'd become a billionaire. Then I'd do R&D on my OTHER great idea. Its a device that intercepts telemarketing calls and sends a signal back to the mainframe that dialed you up in the first place. It then wipes out all references to you so that the telemarketing outfit can never dial you again. The delux model will wipe out their entire data base!! CB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: JohnInKansas Date: 30 Mar 03 - 01:12 AM I've heard that the main reason most commercials have background music was the invention of the "commercial blocker" that blanked the screen whenever there wasn't "music content" - back in the mid 50's. The blocker was a great commercial success for about 6 months, before the word got around that the word had gotten around, and all the commercials became musical. You guys are makin' me jealous though. With no cable, all I get is 16 hours a day of "paid commercial anouncements" on my 6 local channels. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Bobert Date: 30 Mar 03 - 08:05 AM Well, I'm ready fir 'em. Yeah the black plastic tape over the bottom of the screen is doing fine but just in case they go to pop ups I now have my 12 guage shotgun in the television room... Takes a lot to out wit an ol' hillbilly. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Mar 03 - 08:57 AM Cable TV is as commercialized as all the rest, except for one classic movie channel, and it has commercials between the movies. No hiding place down here! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: catspaw49 Date: 30 Mar 03 - 09:49 AM Bobertz............I wuz wundrin............Do you have any unexpressed thoughts? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 30 Mar 03 - 12:32 PM Coyote Breath said: Then I'd do R&D on my OTHER great idea. Its a device that ntercepts telemarketing calls and sends a signal back to the mainframe that dialed you up in the first place. It then wipes out all references to you so that the telemarketing outfit can never dial you again. The delux model will wipe out their entire data base!! Sorry, Coyote Breath, it's already on the market (the ordinary one, not the deluxe). We have one in our house. It's called the TeleZapper. Bought it at Radio Shack. When you pick up the phone, you hear a beep, and that's all. It has informed the computer that dialed you that this phone is disconnected, so the program at the other end deletes the number from its database. Doesn't do anything to calls that were live-dialed, but it's aimed at computer-dialed calls. The nice thing is that since many of these calls are done under contract through a relatively few commercial computer dailers, you're heading off a lot of future calls from that computer facility. And since copies of such databases are sold or rented out to others, all future users of the database you zap are deprived of your number too. It takes a few weeks before the difference becomes apparent, but the reduction in calls does become apparent after a while. Not expensive, either. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Rara Avis Date: 30 Mar 03 - 01:36 PM Glad I'm not the only one made dizzy by that thingy. The device I'd like to see is some little zapper I can point at those drivers whose overly-loud radios broadcast their music (mostly crap) to the entire city. How I would love to point my Sony Deafman at the stylin', uber-hip lout and turn his foul noise into, say, an oompah band. I think he'd turn down that volume down in a hurry. Then we go after the car horns! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: GUEST,Q Date: 30 Mar 03 - 02:33 PM Incease the image size on your tube to cut out the scrolling (OK, that chops the tops and sides as well). Or try affixing a curtain over the offending scrolls. Noticed on snippets of Arabic television carried on the BBC that even they suffer from this affliction. Seems to be universal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 30 Mar 03 - 02:34 PM Something else for us to look forward to. Since we always seem to pick up and emulate everything like this that gets imposed on you in the States, couldn't you some time come up with some things that would make life better instead, for us to pick up on? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Mark Cohen Date: 30 Mar 03 - 04:53 PM Remember the big stink in the 60's about "subliminal advertising"? Guess what, folks...here it is. Last month a friend of mine was in a store where they had a big TV showing CNN. Two people near her were having a conversation about the political situation. My friend suddenly realized that one of the people was saying things that had just scrolled across the bottom of the screen--and presenting them as his own ideas! You can bet your bottom dinar that the networks, and those who support and feed them, did very careful research on the psychological effects of this process. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Bobert Date: 30 Mar 03 - 05:12 PM Spaw: What do you mean? I mean, danged if I know, but, yeah, I reckon I got lots of "unexpressed thoughts". No, make that plenty of of 'em. What, have I exceeded my quoto for startin' threads again? Danged, poor ol' Joe has had to have the little talk with me and I thought I was doing purdy good. But I guess by your question, that maybe I ain't? Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Mar 03 - 05:30 PM B'bert: (hot clue follows) Spaw is almost always jes' funnin' in the threads... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Bobert Date: 30 Mar 03 - 06:48 PM Well, danged! I jus' been funned on, I reckon.......? Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: NicoleC Date: 30 Mar 03 - 08:37 PM I refuse to watch any of the news stations with those things -- which is all of them, now -- but know what I find even MORE annoying? You're peacefully watching some documentary on Discovery Channel and every few minutes you hear this computer-like dinging tone, the picture moves up and gets smaller, and this fat banner gets displayed saying "For more information, go to Discovery.com!" and a little mouse arrow goes over the logo and double clicks. Uh... what was the narrator saying? And now they all have stupid animations advertising the next show coming up or the next big thing they've been working on, and it's getting BIGGER and BIGGER on the bottom of the screen. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Mar 03 - 08:41 PM And how about when you REALLY want to know who played this or that part, or what the closing song was in a movie, and they scrunch the credits all up so they can run a preview (PROMO) for the shortly-upcoming episode of Lassie, in the rest of the screen? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Bobert Date: 30 Mar 03 - 08:58 PM Yeah, thanks, ~S~, that really bugs me. I always watch the credits and I hate it that they go so fast thru the music credits. And if it's on TV you can't read 'em anyway 'cause they're so grainy. And why is it that when it gets to the music that there are two columns of songs, like one eye can read the one and the other eye can read the other. Man, that burns me up. I mean, like every toenail technican gets his or her own line, when it come to songs, you gotta share your line. I wish you hadn't reminded me of that. I was just mellowing out after watching "60 Minutes" and well, guess I'll have to get another beer. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: JennyO Date: 31 Mar 03 - 06:13 AM I have also noticed, as you have, that the music credits go fast, and in two columns, making it impossible to take them all in. My solution is to have my video at the ready, and record that bit, so that I can watch them at my leisure later. The trouble with that is that the writing is often small and fuzzy and looks even worse as a recording. If you pause it, it is even fuzzier. I guess that's what you get for living in a world of mainly non-musos. Jenny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 31 Mar 03 - 03:13 PM I have a solution to every one of these TV gripes: Just don't watch television, and you got no problems. And you got more time to practice whatever it is you play. And you got more time for Mudcat. Voila! solved all your problems! Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Bobert Date: 31 Mar 03 - 06:38 PM I'm with ya' on that one, Uncle DaveO! My TV watching hardly justifies owning the danged thing. I'm down to two shows a week, other than the 7;00 news, that I watch and, for the life of me, don't even know why I watch them. But I do. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Little Scrolly Things on Your TV From: Coyote Breath Date: 31 Mar 03 - 07:37 PM Well doggone it Mr. O! Guess I'll have to work on the deluxe model, then. I'm headin' to Radio Shlock to pick up the basic model. Rara Avis, I agree re: the rolling "boom boxes". I am working on a hypersonic device that will emit a signal that will penetrate the walls of my neighbor's house and excite their three yapping dogs, get em to bark their muzzles off. These jerks put the dogs out on their deck right accross from my house and the racket is deafening. Trouble is they do it only during the day so they aren't in violation of noise ordinances. I am going to use my hypersonic signal generator around two or three in the morning, wake em up! I figure after about a week of this they will get rid of the dogs or put them out at night too and I will get my revenge! I need to take a nap. CB |