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On 2 Dec, 19:31, Dickie mint
wrote:
Dickie mint wrote:
Did anyone catch Points of View on Sunday?
Yet another New Media darling seemed to be suggesting that they were
going to trial user selectable background music on programmes.

This is in response to the hundreds of complaints about its unsuitable,
annoyance factor, loudness or just sheer quantity of it!

The man said that they were working on a way of allowing the viewer to
turn the background music on or off, using the red button.

(snip)

A guy on Points of View says they've chosen the programme to trial red
button selection of background music or not.

Surprise, surprise it's Alan Titchmarsh's "Nature of Britain" [...]
(snip)


How about a press red button option to remove the laughter track?

I still enjoy Have I Got News For You (it's much better some weeks
than others), but the heavy laughter track they use is far too
obtrusive at times, especially when the gag really wasn't up to much.

The same applies to many other programmes as well.

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In article 6d413383-caf7-494e-b0e4-
, Mizter T wrote:
How about a press red button option to remove the laughter track?

I still enjoy Have I Got News For You (it's much better some weeks
than others), but the heavy laughter track they use is far too
obtrusive at times, especially when the gag really wasn't up to much.

The same applies to many other programmes as well.

What about having all the voiceovers, caption-squishing, corner logos
and any other intrusive manifestations of anything that isn't the
actual programme available using the red button?

And what about making it so that you have to press the red button to
switch all this junk ON?

Rod.

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Mizter T wrote:
I still enjoy Have I Got News For You (it's much better some weeks
than others), but the heavy laughter track they use is far too
obtrusive at times, especially when the gag really wasn't up to much.

That's no laughter track. That's the studio audience, laughing at the
programme.

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On 7 Dec, 19:46, "
wrote:
Mizter T wrote:
I still enjoy Have I Got News For You (it's much better some weeks
than others), but the heavy laughter track they use is far too
obtrusive at times, especially when the gag really wasn't up to much.

That's no laughter track. That's the studio audience, laughing at the
programme.


Yes, the sound of the studio audience laughing can be heard - but I'm
pretty certain this is supplemented by a laughter track. Some of the
gags aren't remotely funny (i.e. the photo or video clip gags) yet
they get an uproarious laugh. Listening on headphones it definitely
sounds like there is an extra overlay of laughter.

When I was in the audience, the feeble gags just didn't get a big
laugh. I watched the edition I went to see recorded and I'm quite sure
that extra canned laughter was added.