I've seen the future of TV logos and it isn't good
 

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:57:49 GMT, Clem Dye wrote:

Yeah true, but why should have to go to the trouble to rip my DVDs just
to skip ads.? These should be optional, not mandatory, FFS.

Get a DVD player that ignores prohibited user operation flags. :-)

What's a "DOG"? (was: I've seen the future of TV logos and it isn't good)
 

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:36:47 GMT, Paul Heslop
wrote:

The Dysney channel don't need theirs to jump around. You have a
transparent Mickey's head which fills the lower left quarter of the
screen and a big f*off red button with PRESS HERE!!!! or something
attached to it taking the top left up. You can miss action behind
those two! :O)

Despite that, the mouse ears still jump around every so often.
As if the channel couldn't be any more unwatchable.

What's a "DOG"? (was: I've seen the future of TV logos and it isn't good)
 

Dave Farrance wrote:

Nigel Barker wrote:

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:25:41 GMT, Dave Farrance wrote:
... Stands for Digital Onscreen Graphic. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_On-screen_Graphic

Digitally Originated Graphics is the correct term.

Oh. I've added a note to that page. Somebody else can sort out how it
fits in.

And somebody else has removed it saying that Digital On-Screen Graphic
is the most common. Whatever.

--
Dave Farrance

What's a "DOG"? (was: I've seen the future of TV logos and itisn't good)
 

Zero Tolerance wrote:

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:36:47 GMT, Paul Heslop
wrote:

The Dysney channel don't need theirs to jump around. You have a
transparent Mickey's head which fills the lower left quarter of the
screen and a big f*off red button with PRESS HERE!!!! or something
attached to it taking the top left up. You can miss action behind
those two! :O)

Despite that, the mouse ears still jump around every so often.
As if the channel couldn't be any more unwatchable.

:O) I hardly watch it anymore, sick of the same repeated things,
including allt those second and third rate sequels they churn out.
They're worse than sky movies.
--
Paul (Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me)
-------------------------------------------------------
Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

What's a "DOG"? (was: I've seen the future of TV logos and itisn't good)
 

Zero Tolerance wrote:

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:36:47 GMT, Paul Heslop
wrote:

The Dysney channel don't need theirs to jump around. You have a
transparent Mickey's head which fills the lower left quarter of the
screen and a big f*off red button with PRESS HERE!!!! or something
attached to it taking the top left up. You can miss action behind
those two! :O)

Despite that, the mouse ears still jump around every so often.
As if the channel couldn't be any more unwatchable.

I just saw a belter... on Bravo (I think) while watching Cops Uncut a
big italian flag rolled onto the screen advertising a match to be
shown tomorrow.
--
Paul (Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me)
-------------------------------------------------------
Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

What's a "DOG"? (was: I've seen the future of TV logos and it isn't good)
 

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:14:24 GMT, Dave Farrance
wrote:

Dave Farrance wrote:

Nigel Barker wrote:

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:25:41 GMT, Dave Farrance wrote:
... Stands for Digital Onscreen Graphic. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_On-screen_Graphic

Digitally Originated Graphics is the correct term.

Oh. I've added a note to that page. Somebody else can sort out how it
fits in.

And somebody else has removed it saying that Digital On-Screen Graphic
is the most common. Whatever.

A more common usage doesn't necessarily mean that it's the correct one. The
first interpretation has the meaningless word "Digital" in it whilst the latter
interpretation is an accurate description of the phenomena.

Google finds 229 occurrences of "Digital On-Screen Graphic" vs. 184 occurrences
of "Digitally Originated Graphics".

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

I've seen the future of TV logos and it isn't good
 

Dave wrote:
For those on here who go on about logos on TV channels in the UK and
Australia I'm currently in the USA and have a 'taste of the
future' and it is not looking good.

On most of the main channels here, not only do they have an on-screen
logos for the TV channel but there seems to be a preponderance of
advertising logos during the programmes themselves. In most shows I
have watched, both comedy programmes and films, after most breaks a
'commercial' for other programmes on the channel is shown in the
bottom corner of the screen, or over the whole of the bottom of the
screen during the programme itself! These can go on for about 30
seconds, and are very distracting.

I have seen such logos before, when watching cricket on TV in Asia (I
think it was India vs Pakistan), but at least in that case the adverts
were fairly non-intrusive (e.g. no sound and just in an infobar on the
bottom of the screen) and there were no commercial breaks. Here in the
USA, the main channels have loads of commercials, and commercials in
the programmes themselves!

I wonder where it will stop? With an entire programme obscured by one
long set of commercials? No doubt we will suffer this here before
long too?

David

What times of the day do they have that level of advertising? Just
during primetime or 24 hours a day? (excluding infomercials)

I've seen the future of TV logos and it isn't good
 

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:43:35 +1000, "ant"
wrote:

Dave wrote:
Here in
the USA, the main channels have loads of commercials, and commercials
in the programmes themselves!

I was amazed at how much advertising there was on US tv. Cable was sold in
Australia partly on the idea that it had less/no ads. Well, go to the US and
then think twice about shelling out for cable/pay tv!


If you think US tv is bad, I've just spent a couple of weeks in New
Zealand. One channel showed 5mins of prog, then 4mins of ads. I
thought I was going a bit scatty so I timed it through a couple of
films. Occasionally the prog showing went up to 7mins. There are only
a handful of terrestrial channels there, and this was one of the main
ones.

MJ

I've seen the future of TV logos and it isn't good
 

What times of the day do they have that level of advertising? Just
during primetime or 24 hours a day? (excluding infomercials)

I have generally only watched primetime TV as I have been at work
during the day, but here in the US all 'free' channels have had this
kind of thing while I was watching. Even BBC America, which has some
good shows, pollutes its programmes (such as Viva Blackpool and Kumars
at No. 42) with these ads.

The one channel that does not seem littered with ads is HBO, which
(correct me if I am wrong, and I will check tonight) might not even
have a logo.

Generally I have found US TV poorer than UK TV but maybe that is
because I am a Brit, but most channels seem to have loads of
commercials and many of the entertainment shows seem to spend an
inordinate amount of time previewing features that are appearing later
in the same show!

Regards,

David