More on TV ads

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Now that I'm a regular TV watcher again, I find myself really upset about TV ads. There's a really good show that you're enjoying with your friends, but every so often you must pay the piper by watching a block of these things, which are like a horrible insane person barging into the room and cavorting noisily for a few minutes. I suspect that ads have always been this offensive, but I was just used to them back to when I watched national-average amounts of TV.

Muting helps a little bit. Side note: some ads that try to be funny are actually funnier muted than with sound. We thought an ad for Unreal Tournament (which N plays far too much) was pretty funny. (It showed a woman identifying a man at a morgue, who then opens his eyes, gets up off the slab and runs off in a hurry. Ha ha! He respawned! Funny!) But then we watched it a second time with the sound. Aah, we could have written better lines than that.

Anyway, this is why we need a Tivo. I should go to Cthulhia's house sometime just to see how that thing works.

Comments

[leahleaf.livejournal.com]

it works GREAT. we love ours. we have too much to watch ever but it is certainly handy to have.