Editing Has Gone To Far

[Fish Assassin]

Watched Fosty The Snowman tonight on TV with Jessica.

Please tell me why catch me if you can has been edited to "ch me if you can" I had to rewind it twice then ask Laura to hear it..

Shaw ch.49 KIRO TV. Editing has gone way to far.

 

[Lipripper]

Matt and Trey nailed it years ago

[I9TeVdW8sYA] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9TeVdW8sYA

 

[Seafever]

Don't get me started on television content these days.........


Way too many commercials. A one hour program is half an hour of commercials. A half-hour program is 15 minutes of crapmercials.

The company pays the t.v. network to run the ad......and then they charge you via your subcription to pay to see the ad. That would be Shaw around here as they have a choke-hold monopoly on cable damn near.

Most programs are built around the commercials. The crucial moment in a plot is never exposed until after the commercial.

They've gone too far allright. They will now run all sorts of banner ads and popups while the program is between commercials.

CTV is the worst offender. I avoid that channel as much as possible.

In other words.........cable television is "bait and switch" marketing. Lure you in with some gold-plated mindless crap....and then chop/edit to accomodate the commercial content.

I am almost done with Shaw and cable television.........and network television in general.

It's fast approaching that point where I'm sick of paying to watch commercials/popups, bannerads and non-reality shows which claim they are reality but in fact are heavily scripted untruths using off-the-street people to "star" in the show, who in turn become "celebrities' themselves but they haven't got an ounce of talent or acting ability.
"Jersey Shore" is one example. "Honey Boo-boo" is another.

Does it matter whether you watch "Survivor" on digital or upgrade to H.D.? Not really.......it's just a much clearer picture of a load of s**t interspersed with s**t commercials and hyper-noise.

There are all sorts of ways to attain news,entertainment, music etc. etc.

Cable television is at the bottom of the barrel IMO.

Their argument is:- "well, for what you pay is it good value for the money?" My answer is "no".

 

[Deewar25]

commercials? What are those???...................PVR

 

[Seafever]

Deewar25.....yes ...I know you can skip the commercials if you have a hard disc recorder.

Back when the Shaw technician installed my digital (which still uses an analog signal on many channels and they don't deny it), he himself said "well I use the HD recorder box and when a commercial comes I just hit "skip" ".

But I couldn't justify spending the extra cash just to take advantage of this clumsy feature.

I didn't want to mention it, because once the tv stations figure out that people are doing this they will find some other way to shove the commercials up one's nose.

There are some companies like Netflix that offer online commercial-free episodes of programs.......but it's a bit pricier than cable.

 

[Finished Business]

Torrents....what are commercials and a monthly cable bill? LOL

pick what I watch, can watch shows from other countries and stations. When I watch regular cable TV, I want to shoot myself in the face at all the incredibly stupid commericals.

Theres nothing more corruptive to the human mind than the "idiot box".
The LEARNING channel, History, Discovery, all USED to be good, until they catered to the masses and started running horrible, socially desctructive reality TV.

Not to mention all the politically motivated stations (ie FOXNews ect)...Television is leading us down a very worrysome path with the way it is going.
It reminds me of a quote from a very good world travelled author, Eric S. Margolis. As follows:

""I journeyed through Yemen in 1976.....At dusk, a ram's horn was blown, and the city's great wooden gates closed for the night.
When asked what Yemenis did in the evening to entertain themselves, a local resident of the capital, Sanaa, replied, "We get together with the nieghbors and our relatives to eat dinner. We do traditional dances, we tell our children fairy tales and stories from Yemeni History. We play games, the women sew and do weaving, we hold poetry contests....since we all love poetry so much!"
He paused for a moment. "That of course was until 2 weeks ago."

"What happened 2 weeks ago?" I asked.
"We got television. Now everyone stays at home and watches TV."

2000 years of rich Yemeni culture had been eradicated in one night by television."" -Margolis [American Raj, p.45 paragraph 1-3]

This short segment from his novel really stuck with me as a beaming example of the negative powers of television. It may have been Yemen, but it makes a blinding point..