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up yours TBS, quit pausing my shows to tell me about Bill Engval

gorcorps

gorcorps

aka Brandon
Is anybody else annoyed to all hell about this? I'm watching family guy, and Bill Engval pops up and they PAUSE THE SHOW to tell us his show is next. Then he says "now back to family guy" and it unpauses. Are you fucking kidding me?
 
I have yet to see this phenomena live, but watch lots of TBS and imagine I'll run into it eventually. Just hope it's temporary.. or at least that no other networks copycat.
 
"Sorry to interrupt....well, ok, I'm not really sorry.
Hi! I'm going to interrupt you, and there's not much you can do about this kind of advertising, so get used to it, dumbass. That's right, I'm calling you a dumbass. Why? Because I can. Dumbass. Enjoy the rest of the show."

I doubt it's temporary. With Tivo-style devices allowing people to slice out commercials, they're going to find other ways of sticking in advertisements. Discovery is doing it with their damned animations during shows going on about their annoying "When We Left Earth" show.
Yeah, the space program - interesting stuff as far as I'm concerned. But it's done up to get ratings. Every commercial break lead-in is all "OMG is he like totally going to die? Is the space program doomed? Is it going to kill my family if I don't keep watching?" And the other half of it makes me feel like I'm watching a show designed for 2nd graders.


Or who knows, maybe they're trying to push people to buy content online. With bandwidth caps being implemented, people are more likely to exceed those caps, thus providing even more monthly revenue to the telecomm companies.
$$$Cha-CHING!!!$$$

 
TBS has always been the worst when it comes to the ads that come out and cover the bottom of the show while it is playing.

I love how peter asks "What the hell was that for" right when the ad goes away.
 
I love (not really) how they position the pause 3 seconds before an actual comercial begins :| I've decided that I will never watch that show now....
 
they are stuck between a rock and a hard place imo. if they continue to do this (as an industry) they lose viewers to other media. if they don't find a way to manage ads, they face an increasing battle with viewers skipping ads altogether. i bet they were disappointed when no one else followed the directv model of 30-second-slip.
 
Originally posted by: stinger25
I love (not really) how they position the pause 3 seconds before an actual comercial begins :| I've decided that I will never watch that show now....
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You mean station? Its not the show at fault.
 
We need some clever hackers to develop an inline plugin that removes all of these separate things from tv broadcasts so you can filter it all out. I hate the station id's in the lower right corner, hate advertising popups, etc. There has to be a way to filter them all out.

I hate it enough that I've switched to buying season dvds rather that watch a show on tv. Maybe that was their goal all along, but it sucks and someone should find a workaround.
 
Originally posted by: gorcorps
Is anybody else annoyed to all hell about this? I'm watching family guy, and Bill Engval pops up and they PAUSE THE SHOW to tell us his show is next. Then he says "now back to family guy" and it unpauses. Are you fucking kidding me?
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QFT. fuck you, TBS. i stopped watching.
 
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