Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days

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• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hate to be the guy to tell you, man. But, they’ve been doing this shit for like, 30 years man.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t ignore the old TV.

  I’m honestly impressed there are still functional, floor-model rear-projection TVs.

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  • Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I clean out houses for a living, you’d be very shocked how many functional rear projection and CRTs are in use and get thrown out “because old”.

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    • sparky678348@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Heart wrenching and entirely understandable. Those things are both magnificent and inconvenient these days

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s too heavy to ever get replaced. It’ll still be there after the house is long gone.

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• joenforcer@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a weird take. That ticker telling you about scores and schedules for a whole bunch of different sports has been on ESPN forever.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While I understand their point, it’s like going to the channel with the stock market banner on the bottom and complaining it is taking up part of the screen, where I would almost say the other 90% of the screen is the ads.

    So many hours spent watching that as a child. It was either that channel or Bob Barker when I was on summer break

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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am not going to ignore the old TV. That’s rad as hell and I am jealous.

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  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That rear projection beast was the best darn television for tests until Pioneer made plasmas. I miss ours deeply and wish we’d had the space to keep it (especially for retro gaming and the yearly playing of the Star Wars laser disk).

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    • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What kind of tests?

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t the whole point of sports to be able to advertise?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it? I thought it was to get more points than the other team. I’ve been playing wrong this whole time?

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Definitely playing wrong. It’s about money, Gatorade, and getting enough CTE to justify killing your wife. /s

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    • danciestlobster@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This take is why you keep losing at golf

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah, that is to keep potential clients interested.

      They keep adding rules to the sport to make it more “TV viewing friendly”, meaning more breaks to show ads. I mean, the superbowl is just ads with sport attached.

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    • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m golf, you want to score less.

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We have very different ideas of what a banner ad is

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• qwestjest78@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly I would take the little banner if it meant there was not comerical breaks. The fact that they do this on top of all the ads they also play at breaks is so over the top. I have been getting into European football and I find it so refreshing that they play 45 mins half straight through. It’s way faster games and there is not the disruption of comericals. In those games they have the banner, but I don’t mind it as much

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  who still watches broadcast TV?

  ah sports… adults investing billions into children’s games. not surprised.

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  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry it’s not as exciting as 90 day fiance for you.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      what the fuck is even that?

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  • rolling_resistance@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think I prefer “children’s games” to organized crime and wars. Keeps competitve people busy.

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    • EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I don’t sports, but one shouldn’t be ignorant to the fact games are fun. Sports are wildly popular all around the world for a reason. But hey, some of us nerds need to feel superior one way or another.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yeah that’s what we’ve got, a binary decision between sports (panem et circenses) or outright war.

      Couldn’t possibly be some bits in between.

      Cute.

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Paying billionaires to watch millionaires play games.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  that’s espn, dude.

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That TV looks killer for retro consoles…

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  • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the refresh rate on these? Since they’re back projected

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most of those rear-projection TV were 60 Hz, with the high-end ones often having 120 Hz.

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  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Was never allowed to play games on ours because it could cause screen burn in.

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    • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gonna put on MSNBC 24/7 instead. Ah, someone already did that for me!

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  • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Looks like a projection set, so no, they’re pretty bad for games.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I actually struggled to identify what part of the screen was an ad, and I’m less able to be outraged about a TV channel displaying what content they will be broadcasting later than ads for unrelated products. Similar to how I’m okay with or even want to see movie previews before a movie, but I better not see a commercial for insurance or consumer electronics.

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• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Your TV is awesome, and I’d would absolutely love to play some Metal Gear Solid on that bastard.

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• TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s fucking irritating.

  I love your tv tho and cant ignore it. My dad had one of these beasts when I was young it had to be over 300 pounds easy. Thing never moved once it was there.

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• tacostrange@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hate the mid-game ads that take up 2/3 of the screen

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• devilish666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn that TV must have very good sounds compared to nowadays TV

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• FleetingTit@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you watched a game of Association Football (or real football) lately? They digitally alter the ads on physical LED banners for different broadcast regions.

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  • couggod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I noticed it on an NHL broadcast recently. I guess it’s cool they can do that now, but it removes the local flavor of the team hosting the event.

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    • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah they started putting ads on the dasher boards a few years ago. There are also ads digitally inserted on the ice.

      The tech is pretty cool. When they first started doing it, it would sometimes cut off players, but they seemed to get it settled down within a few months.

      I know the /r/hockey sub was really upset about it when it was first implemented, and I was annoyed at first because of the glitches. But now, it’s like…well, now I see these ads instead of those ads…what’s the difference?

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  • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know baseball does this in the US. Dunno about football.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s actually called a “bug”—not the software error kind, though. In sports broadcasts, we get the classic “score bug,” always been there, usually small and tucked in a corner to keep things low-key. But what you’re seeing here, this whole bottom-of-the-screen takeover, is way more like those old-school news channel bugs from back in the ‘90s or early 2000s. You know, the ones that would stretch across the screen with stock prices, news updates, whatever they wanted to throw at you, right underneath the main action. It’s more intrusive for sure, but not anything wild—it’s actually been around for decades.

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  • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought the strip across the bottom was called a chyron? Not heard it referred to as a bug before (not saying you’re wrong though).

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    • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe in news it is. My knowledge comes from working with a 3rd party for ESPN. I know ESPN refers to this as the bug. There are “bug operators”, and boy howdy does the producer yell at them when they’re not on their toes.

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve completely given up on watching broadcast TV. Recently they made a change in Germany, where you have to pay extra for cable TV. Which I won’t do so now I don’t have cable any more. I haven’t even noticed the difference.

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• frankpsy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This was already common practice to promote other shows during broadcasts way back when I last watched broadcast TV over a decade and a half ago.

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• h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ok boomer

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  programs with tickers often have something on a portion of it, especially sporting events. at least it’s only a program promo and not a flashy animated thing for a prescription drug or something.

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