Law passed in USA to prevent loud TV adverts

Mike Henry wrote:

In my case I don't continually complain about the ads precisely *because*
I use a PVR (thus never see them).

BBC continuity are often over-loud too.

Chris
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On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:50:48 -0000, Steve Terry wrote:

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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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


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/

Steve Terry

Same here, Steve, Every time I do a comparison there seems to be a negative
saving - some sites even push that as a 'benefit'!
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In article ,
Chris J Dixon wrote:
In my case I don't continually complain about the ads precisely
*because* I use a PVR (thus never see them).

BBC continuity are often over-loud too.

Absolutely. As are some of the commercial station ones too. Or even too
quiet.

It's something that will never be sorted. It happened when you had real
ears meant to be listening to such things, and IMHO no machine will ever
do better.

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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:


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.

You've reminded me of seeing "The Owl and the Pussycat" cartoon in 3D back
in the 1970s at the NFT during an evening dedicated to 3D films. IIRC the
cartoon was made for the 1951 Festival of Britain. Can't even recall what
the other films were, but I remember the fish swimming out of the screen
and floating above the seatrow in front of me. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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In article , Pete wrote:
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.

What on earth is "male" about it? Isn't it just common sense not to want to
waste money buying the wrong thing?

Or are you implying that women are irrational?

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In article , J G Miller 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.

Many of them are making their own TV material, and some of it is better than
so-called "mainstream" broadcasting.

The broadcasters will have to realise that they can't compete with 10 minute
clips that can be watched anywhere if they continue to produce expensive
programmes that take 60 minutes to present 10 minutes worth of content, and
are either full of adverts or self-destruct after a time limit.

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In article en.co.uk,
Roderick Stewart wrote:
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.

What on earth is "male" about it? Isn't it just common sense not to want
to waste money buying the wrong thing?

Or are you implying that women are irrational?

It's an interesting point. My limited observations show you get a far
higher proportion of male customers in Lidl than the Sainsbury, Tesco and
ASDA stores I also use. Can't be just a location thing - the Lidl is close
to the ASDA.

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On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:15:25 -0000, Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article , Pete wrote:
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.

What on earth is "male" about it? Isn't it just common sense not to want to
waste money buying the wrong thing?

Read the very next sentence. The one that starts "It turns out ...". It
explains that the motivation is different and it says nothing about that
difference being irrational.

Or are you implying that women are irrational?

Rod.


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In article , Chris J Dixon
wrote:
Mike Henry wrote:

In my case I don't continually complain about the ads precisely
*because* I use a PVR (thus never see them).

BBC continuity are often over-loud too.

I do sometimes wonder where Radio 3 get their announcers with a normal
speaking voice as loud as a Symphony Orch going full tilt! :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:41:46 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

I do sometimes wonder where Radio 3 get their announcers with a normal
speaking voice as loud as a Symphony Orch going full tilt! :-)

Come back Tom Crowe, all is forgiven.

An example of Radio 3's donnish wit was when the Hebrides Overture
overran and crashed into the Greenwich time signal. With Olympian
self-possession, the announcer, Tom Crowe, opened the microphone and
apologised: "I do hope the Mendelssohn didn't interfere with your
enjoyment of the pips."

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