On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 at 09:25 Tony Langdon <vk3jed@gmail.com> wrote:
- Speaking of TV, stop treating your viewers like crap with not sticking to the schedule, and the way ads are handled now, as well as putting ads into credits of shows and movies. Keep that up, and we might as well close down all TV stations and turn the spectrum over to broadband, since people will move to online services instead. As for Foxtel, it's a poor value proposition, paying for a lot of crap for a couple of channels of interest.
Not to mention other bad practises that seem to be getting more and more common, such as distracting advertisements on top of the TV show being broadcast, cutting the show (e.g. when somebody is still talking) to go to ads, racing through credits at end, or worse not even showing the credits at the end - you suddenly find the next program has started and didn't realize the previous one had ended. I am kind of getting sick of TV (which might actually be a good thing... <grin>) Yes, after watching old episodes on Dr Who (I watched on DVD so not a problem), sometimes the credits can be rather interesting. Such as when two distinct characters are played by the one actor < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Orchid_(Doctor_Who)> (They seem to do a good job of this for a 1982 production, e.g. in one scene makes it look like both characters are shaking hands with each other). Or when they deliberately disguise the name of a well known actor to try and keep the character's well known identity a secret ("Kalid" played by "Leon Ny Taiy" in <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Flight> was actually The Master in disguise played by Anthony Ainley)