Law passed in USA to prevent loud TV adverts

On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:53:27 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Are you forced to watch commercial TV?

No, but I'm forced to pay for it through almost everything I buy.

You wouldn't know what to buy if it wasn't for advertising. ;-)

Very, very occasionally, advertising draws attention to the
availability of some useful or desirable thing of which I would
otherwise have been unaware, but mostly it is simply trying to persuade
us to buy one brand instead of another of exactly the same thing, which
can be in nobody's interests exept that of the advertising industry.

In fact, even the "notification" function of advertising is
superfluous, now that nearly everybody has an inrternet-connected
computer, otherwise known as a "Machine For Finding Things Out". If I
want to buy something, far from not knowing what to buy, I can find out
in less time than it would take to get the car out of the garage what
is available, who offers the best price and/or delivery, and -
something that no advertisement would ever tell me - the honest
unabridged opinions of several people who have already bought one.

If advertising on TV ceases to create sales the sellers will stop
advertising and TV supported by advertising will collapse.

As we still have TV supported by advertising it seems that advertising
on TV is still cost-effective.


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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:


But the answer is if it bothers you just don't buy those products. There
are near always alternatives that aren't advertised and are as good. But
you'll have to search them out.

A potential snag here is that the 'alternative' may be made by the same big
company. So part of the price may still be going towards the ads you don't
see.

Slainte,

Jim

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On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:53:27 -0000, Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Are you forced to watch commercial TV?

No, but I'm forced to pay for it through almost everything I buy.

You wouldn't know what to buy if it wasn't for advertising. ;-)

Very, very occasionally, advertising draws attention to the
availability of some useful or desirable thing of which I would
otherwise have been unaware, but mostly it is simply trying to persuade
us to buy one brand instead of another of exactly the same thing, which
can be in nobody's interests exept that of the advertising industry.

In fact, even the "notification" function of advertising is
superfluous, now that nearly everybody has an inrternet-connected
computer, otherwise known as a "Machine For Finding Things Out". If I
want to buy something, far from not knowing what to buy, I can find out
in less time than it would take to get the car out of the garage what
is available, who offers the best price and/or delivery, and -
something that no advertisement would ever tell me - the honest
unabridged opinions of several people who have already bought one.

That does sound like a very "male" approach to buying stuff. Basically
decide what you want, find the best/cheapest supplier, buy it, use it.
It turns out that for a significant proportion of the the human race
the process is somewhat different. Almost all TV advertising is aimed
at people who's primary intention is simply to buy _something_ and
the advertising is intended to direct these people towards their product
rather than anyone elses'.


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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
writes

My guess is those who continually complain about the level of TV ads
rarely watch ITV - and already use a PVR to skip through them if possible.

Correct in my case.

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Mike Tomlinson

In article , J G Miller
writes

I do not understand the reference "The Shermans".

Sherman Tank = Yank

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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
writes

;-) They'd find an excuse for keeping it low regardless. How could they
sell the next 'super' HD otherwise?

Or 3D, which looks like falling flat on its arse due to lack of
interest.

What the idiots punting 3D TVs haven't realised is that there is no
content to broadcast. X Factor in 3D?? No thanks shudder

--
Mike Tomlinson

In article ,
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
writes

;-) They'd find an excuse for keeping it low regardless. How could they
sell the next 'super' HD otherwise?

Or 3D, which looks like falling flat on its arse due to lack of
interest.

What the idiots punting 3D TVs haven't realised is that there is no
content to broadcast. X Factor in 3D?? No thanks shudder

Thing is 3D in the cinema isn't recent as some seem to think. I saw my
first polarised - rather than the red green sort - about 50 years ago. It
worked very well, but obviously wasn't an audience grabber as it more or
less died out. Only to be re-invented years later. Things like colour were
a 'must have' when it came time to replace a TV, but I can't see this
applying to 3D. Especially since most will already have a recent set.

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Roderick Stewart wrote:

In fact, even the "notification" function of advertising is
superfluous, now that nearly everybody has an inrternet-connected
computer

One in five don't have internet access. They tend to be the people who
need all the help they can get to find bargains. Ironic...

Bill

On Monday, December 6th, 2010 at 12:25:52h +0000, Peter Duncanson wrote:

As we still have TV supported by advertising it seems that advertising
on TV is still cost-effective.

Yes but the was not the tipping point now a few years ago where the value
of sales of on-line advertising exceeded the sale of television advertising?

Surely it is all now downhill for TV advertising because the
MP3/Facebook/Twitter generation watches decreasing amounts of live TV.

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Roderick Stewart wrote:

In fact, even the "notification" function of advertising is superfluous,
now that nearly everybody has an inrternet-connected computer

One in five don't have internet access. They tend to be the people who
need all the help they can get to find bargains. Ironic...
Bill


Indeed, t'internet found me Ebico power and gas, which are by far the
cheapest suppler for low to medium users
https://www.ebico.org.uk/

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