(ignore the old TV)
an ESPN+ exclusive fight has literally nothing to do with the football
I hate to be the guy to tell you, man. But, they’ve been doing this shit for like, 30 years man.
I can’t ignore the old TV.
I’m honestly impressed there are still functional, floor-model rear-projection TVs.
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”.
Heart wrenching and entirely understandable. Those things are both magnificent and inconvenient these days
And the picture quality is terrible by modern standards. Give me OLED any day.
It is terrible for modern media, but for legacy media give me analog signal any day
Agreed, though I’ll take a Trinitron over an RPTV any day
It’s too heavy to ever get replaced. It’ll still be there after the house is long gone.
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.
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
I am not going to ignore the old TV. That’s rad as hell and I am jealous.
That rear projection beast was the best darn television for
testsyears 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).What kind of tests?
My bad. Must have made a slip up on the swipe keyboard. I meant “years”. I’ve edited my post to correct.
You can’t hide your secret tests from us.
Isn’t the whole point of sports to be able to advertise?
We have very different ideas of what a banner ad is
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
who still watches broadcast TV?
ah sports… adults investing billions into children’s games. not surprised.
I think I prefer “children’s games” to organized crime and wars. Keeps competitve people busy.
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.
games are fun
Games ARE fun. Adults wasting these kinds of resources so rich men can get richer is fucking disgusting and you know it even if you won’t admit it.
It’s a terrible waste of resources, it’s a perversion of athletics, and it doesn’t take a nerd to feel superior to that kind of petty bullshit.
If it’s any consolation I feel the same way about NASCAR and F1. Petty, climate wrecking childish bullshit.
Bet you’re a fan of that garbage too.
Hey, I didn’t see it that way, you got good points, you won me over. You’re a fucking asshole, though, good luck winning others over with your childish bullshit.
The only reason why I’m agreeing with you is because I already have left leaning beliefs and a little bit of an education to know capitalism bad, you’re preaching to the choir. By the way, no, I don’t consume sports of any kind, stop being a butthead.
Hey, I didn’t see it that way, you got good points, you won me over. You’re a fucking asshole, though, good luck winning others over with your childish bullshit.
Sure thing sporto.
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.
Sorry it’s not as exciting as 90 day fiance for you.
what the fuck is even that?
also, it’s gold that you don’t even try to argue that you’re an adult who’s enthralled by watching billionaires pay millionaires to play a child’s game.
lolol
Paying billionaires to watch millionaires play games.
that’s espn, dude.
That TV looks killer for retro consoles…
What’s the refresh rate on these? Since they’re back projected
Most of those rear-projection TV were 60 Hz, with the high-end ones often having 120 Hz.
That’s pretty good. The viewing angles were trash but it got you a big TV easier.
Was never allowed to play games on ours because it could cause screen burn in.
Gonna put on MSNBC 24/7 instead. Ah, someone already did that for me!
Looks like a projection set, so no, they’re pretty bad for games.
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.
Your TV is awesome, and I’d would absolutely love to play some Metal Gear Solid on that bastard.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Ha, I bet :-)
I hate the mid-game ads that take up 2/3 of the screen
