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It is very freaky, I really can't bare to watch it.
Why do we need so many adverts for BBC digital channels anyway? There seems to be a new one - which says exactly the same as all those that came before it - every other week
Why do we need so many adverts for BBC digital channels anyway? There seems to be a new one - which says exactly the same as all those that came before it - every other week
MA
I can't watch it either. Even when I'm transmitting it. It gives me the creeps.
Inspector Sands posted:
It is very freaky, I really can't bare to watch it.
Why do we need so many adverts for BBC digital channels anyway? There seems to be a new one - which says exactly the same as all those that came before it - every other week
Why do we need so many adverts for BBC digital channels anyway? There seems to be a new one - which says exactly the same as all those that came before it - every other week
I can't watch it either. Even when I'm transmitting it. It gives me the creeps.
BB
Well, whaddya know, digital TV and radio is the future. It's even better than crappy old analogue TV and FM.
I'm assuming the license payer is funding the cost of making all these adverts - are the digital ads made in house, or are they done by an external ad agency?
If it's the latter, then I wonder what the cost is to the license fee payer - and how much of our license is being sidelined into the marketing department to fund the cost of making these digital adverts, which I doubt would not be exactly cheap.
I hate the BBC's plugging of digital services. Call me old fashioned, but it seems that the marketing department has more control over the technical standards, which IMO are inferior. Mono and 128kbps MP2 on DAB - ick; low bitrates on Freeview whereby blocking can be clearly seen on screen (and is even more obvious if it's feds through a TV card and on large TV screens). I would much prefer a decent analogue picture and FM signal as opposed to a digital feed.
I passed a shop window the other day and paused to look at the TVs - they were showing BBC1 and you could clearly see the horrible compression artefacts on the expensive plasma and LCD TVs that sat in the window.
Inspector Sands posted:
Why do we need so many adverts for BBC digital channels anyway? There seems to be a new one - which says exactly the same as all those that came before it - every other week
Well, whaddya know, digital TV and radio is the future. It's even better than crappy old analogue TV and FM.
I'm assuming the license payer is funding the cost of making all these adverts - are the digital ads made in house, or are they done by an external ad agency?
If it's the latter, then I wonder what the cost is to the license fee payer - and how much of our license is being sidelined into the marketing department to fund the cost of making these digital adverts, which I doubt would not be exactly cheap.
I hate the BBC's plugging of digital services. Call me old fashioned, but it seems that the marketing department has more control over the technical standards, which IMO are inferior. Mono and 128kbps MP2 on DAB - ick; low bitrates on Freeview whereby blocking can be clearly seen on screen (and is even more obvious if it's feds through a TV card and on large TV screens). I would much prefer a decent analogue picture and FM signal as opposed to a digital feed.
I passed a shop window the other day and paused to look at the TVs - they were showing BBC1 and you could clearly see the horrible compression artefacts on the expensive plasma and LCD TVs that sat in the window.
TV
Try transmitting a live announcer fill then....
Point taken about the ad, it might upset the children, but not the fuss on the scale of Cliffhanger yet. Which is a pity, seeing Marketing mess up is gratifying.
marksi posted:
I can't watch it either. Even when I'm transmitting it. It gives me the creeps.
Try transmitting a live announcer fill then....
Point taken about the ad, it might upset the children, but not the fuss on the scale of Cliffhanger yet. Which is a pity, seeing Marketing mess up is gratifying.
MA
Try transmitting a live announcer fill then....
Point taken about the ad, it might upset the children, but not the fuss on the scale of Cliffhanger yet. Which is a pity, seeing Marketing mess up is gratifying.
I'm afraid I would have to have a valid reason for dropping it, and "I don't like it" really wouldn't cut it.
tvarksouthwest posted:
marksi posted:
I can't watch it either. Even when I'm transmitting it. It gives me the creeps.
Try transmitting a live announcer fill then....
Point taken about the ad, it might upset the children, but not the fuss on the scale of Cliffhanger yet. Which is a pity, seeing Marketing mess up is gratifying.
I'm afraid I would have to have a valid reason for dropping it, and "I don't like it" really wouldn't cut it.
BB
I've just caught it now, and god did this ad creep me out. It's ghastly, and I'm not surprised if some kids got upset by seeing it. 
For anyone that hasn't seen this ad, it features bunches of heads clumped together and swarming to form the face of a famous person talking whilst flying around on green countryside. Heads also fly around it on their own beside the main composition.
For anyone that hasn't seen this ad, it features bunches of heads clumped together and swarming to form the face of a famous person talking whilst flying around on green countryside. Heads also fly around it on their own beside the main composition.