Product placement coming to a TV near you.

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"Ian" wrote in message
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In , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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In article ,
Ian wrote:
Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8252901.stm

We can look forward to programmes made with no other purpose.

It's been commonplace in the US for many a year, and doesn't seem to have
happened on those progs we get here. Or at least not obviously so. Like
changing the royal Royce for a Kia...

The exception I can think of is "24". That had an extended section with
product placement (a big Ford promotion) in one episode (ie 60 real
minutes of product-placement content instead of 45 mins +15mins of ads).
IIRC it was cut back to 45mins when shown here.

Of course it's been happening for years, and still does.

"This Morning" is a good example, and chat shows another.

Wossy takes great delight in introducing an actor with a new film/tv
series, a singer with a new album/tour, an author with, you get the
idea.

Every guest on a chat show has something to sell, and let's not
forget The News, with it's promos for movies and other celeb earners.

TV is really beginning to suck big time.

Not to mention the spread of American terminology. ;-)

Z

Touche'

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Ian said the following on 13/09/2009 02:01:

Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8252901.stm

We can look forward to programmes made with no other purpose.

Next stop, Burn's and Allen Carnation Milk style sketches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsvv4Rc46Q

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[...]like the electronic devices for giving folk a fix.

You mean television sets? :-)

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On 14 Sep, 02:34, "Bill Wright" wrote:
Or "BBC News sponsored by the Labour Party"
The BBC reports of the recent race riot in London were biased to the
point
of absurdity.

I've stopped watching television news - it's so bad for my blood
pressure.

The 6pm (UK) news is pretty much irrelevant up here (and probably to
most people north of High Barnet) and the 6.30pm (Reporting Glasgow)
news is full of the Scottish Government's latest consultation
initiative into reducing the incidence of washing-line theft.
Owain


I'm 2 miles north of High Barnet and i certainly find it irrelevant,
it's not news anymore, it's mostly comment and opinion

Steve Terry

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Has anyone ever noticed that in many US series all the computers tend to
be supplied by apple?

In "Independence day" Jeff Goldblum plants a virus into the Alien
mothership with a mac laptop running OS7

Bloody lucky the Aliens use Mac OS7

Steve Terry

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:43:39 +0100, "Steve Terry"
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Has anyone ever noticed that in many US series all the computers tend to
be supplied by apple?

In "Independence day" Jeff Goldblum plants a virus into the Alien
mothership with a mac laptop running OS7

Bloody lucky the Aliens use Mac OS7

I didn't know Dan Brown wrote it ;-)

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On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:43:39 +0100, "Steve Terry"
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Has anyone ever noticed that in many US series all the computers tend to
be supplied by apple?

In "Independence day" Jeff Goldblum plants a virus into the Alien
mothership with a mac laptop running OS7

Bloody lucky the Aliens use Mac OS7

Just two minor technical points here.

1. The virus uploaded from the Mac does not need to be a Mac OS virus.
It could just be a file stored on the Mac.

2. How come the alien mothership had a connector that the Mac could
interface with? The aliens could hardly have invented a connection
method (physical connection and data protocols) that just happened to be
identical to one invented here on Earth.

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Peter Duncanson wrote:

2. How come the alien mothership had a connector that the Mac could
interface with?

The U in USB does stand for universal...

Simon

On 2009-09-13, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Ian wrote:
Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8252901.stm
We can look forward to programmes made with no other purpose.
It's been commonplace in the US for many a year, and doesn't seem to have
happened on those progs we get here. Or at least not obviously so. Like
changing the royal Royce for a Kia...

Never noticed that all the laptops used in CSI are Dell's, or that all the
phones are iPhones, etc...?

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:33:08 +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:

2. How come the alien mothership had a connector that the Mac could
interface with? The aliens could hardly have invented a connection
method (physical connection and data protocols) that just happened to be
identical to one invented here on Earth.

Was there not a similar issue of aliens using the same networking protocols
in an episode of ST:TNG, perhaps involving The Borg?