(ignore the old TV)

an ESPN+ exclusive fight has literally nothing to do with the football

  • @[email protected]
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    59 hours 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.

  • Captain Aggravated
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    1413 hours 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    716 hours 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      19 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 hours 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?

  • @[email protected]
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    1923 hours ago

    who still watches broadcast TV?

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

      • @[email protected]
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        10 hours ago

        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

    • Rolling Resistance
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      1019 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        210 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        718 hours 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 hours ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 hours ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              18 hours ago

              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.

  • @[email protected]
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    622 days 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      822 hours 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

  • @[email protected]
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    932 days ago

    I can’t ignore the old TV.

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

    • @[email protected]
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      102 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      302 days 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”.

      • Sparky678348
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        122 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    1232 days ago

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

  • Ricky Rigatoni
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    602 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      That rear projection beast was the best darn television for tests years 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).

  • Scrubbles
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    372 days ago

    We have very different ideas of what a banner ad is

  • @[email protected]
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    252 days 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

  • Diplomjodler
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    72 days 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.