Devanchya
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1 edit | [Rant] TBS Has GONE too far.
RANT.
Was watching a re-run of Everyone Loves Raymond on TBS today... because here was nothing else on and I needed background noise.
As many know, TV stations are starting to put "Advertisements" at the bottoms of the shows, to advertise products or other items. TBS has been one of the worse with added sound to the ads, or taking up 2/3 of the screen.
I was angry with them... but... they have gone to far.
TODAY... they started doing a "fly by" Ad at the bottom when the Actor for the show walked in with it.. hit a spot on the screen and the show "Paused" mid-joke.
(Halloween episode right where Raymond finds out his condom is a piece of chocolate).
THEY PAUSED THE SHOW AT THE PUNCHLINE. Advertised their crap-ass made for the station show... then "Went back to the show" for another 10 seconds so the Joke could finish before going to regular commercials.
Oh I am so pissed.
...... will I stop watching TBS... I'll try.
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HiVolt
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| Re: [Rant] TBS Has GONE to far.
I've stopped watching TBS many years ago... Their outrageously long commercials and just retarded crap like "Dinner & a Movie" just pissed me off too much. I once timed a commercial break + the dinner & a movie thing to just over 8 minutes.
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horsemouth
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canada | reply to Devanchya
In Halifax TBS is on channel 51 [funny thing 51 is blocked on my tv] |
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capdjq
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If its not in Hi Def I don't watch the Channel. Lucky for me TBS is not on the Hi Def list.
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horsemouth
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said by HiVolt  :I've stopped watching TBS many years ago... Their outrageously long commercials and just retarded crap like "Dinner & a Movie" just pissed me off too much. I once timed a commercial break + the dinner & a movie thing to just over 8 minutes. What did you expect from "Dinner & a Movie"?
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Airwolf
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I'm not fond of TBS either. I rarely check that channel now to watch anything. Maybe on the weekend if there is a movie I haven't seen in ages. Usually overplayed too.
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Wolfie00
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I haven't watched TBS in years because of the commercials. It isn't a "protest" thing - it's simply that my nerves can't take it. The last time was trying to watch a movie they were running, and it just wasn't possible. By the time 10 minutes of commercials were done you'd lost interest. CNN -- another Turner station -- probably isn't as bad but still annoying. Of course PVR's make it a little bit easier but that takes planning, and the interruptions are still annoying.
Come to think of it I don't watch a lot of normal commercial channels much at all, especially since I switched over to HD -- mostly Discovery, PBS, National Geographic, and sometimes CBC.
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HiVolt
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| Its not just the lenght and frequency of commercials on TBS, another fact is they butcher the movies big time, by chopping entire scenes out to make room for more commercials, and the censorship of words and entire phrases is so ridiculous... Sometimes the voice doesn't even match!
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donoreo
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I love hearing the bad overdubs on TBS. I also like the old Showcase commercial where they make fun of it using the line up scene from The Usual Suspects 
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Clipper
join:2002-05-23
Stoney Creek, ON
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The amount of self promotion on TBS is beyond absurd. At the start and end of every commercial segment, you see an ad for their weeknight comedy lineup, or Sex and the City, or whatever movie they are going to play 6 times the upcoming weekend, or the new TBS exclusive series, etc etc.
I love their lineup and alot of the movies they run, but I'm constantly flipping to avoid watching their commercials. TVtropolis is just as bad... 'Hit TV lives here'. |
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loosedobbs
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said by capdjq :If its not in Hi Def I don't watch the Channel. Lucky for me TBS is not on the Hi Def list. Not for Long. I read somewhere from Sep 1st they will start HD. |
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Wolfie00
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said by Clipper :TVtropolis is just as bad... 'Hit TV lives here'. Another one that I stumbled across and now avoid like the plague. The Extremely Perky Woman who does (or used to do) the voice-over for their self-promotion ads made me nauseous. 
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alexpb1
join:2005-06-23
Barrie, ON
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All those shows are horrible. They try so hard to get people to watch them too. I was watching Raymond the other night and that stupid Bill Engvall guy kept popping up and freezing the show so he could advertise about his show. He popped up and froze the current show like 8 times, then after he says "Back to Everybody Loves Raymond" they show about 2 seconds of it and it goes to regular commercial.
"The Bill Engvall Show"
"Tyler Perry's House of Payne"
"My Boys"
All horrible crap. |
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alamarco
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clubs: | I watch TBS all the time, but never experienced that where they pause the current show. I'm guessing I'm just getting lucky or they are a rarity. |
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LaZ3R
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That same pausing shit happened once when I was watching a week or so ago and I simply said "WTF IS THIS...". TBS is losing it. Their commercials are WAY to freaking long and annoying. Morons.
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shaner
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Calgary, AB | I love watching TBS for the "Cordon Bleu School of Culinary Arts" and associated commercials. They're the funniest stuff on TV. |
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Jagermeistr
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Oradell, NJ | reply to Devanchya
hey, just wanted to let you know that this post has 23 diggs and is featured in the upcoming stories section. |
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Karmashock
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I stopped watching tv altogether ages ago. At this point, why? The internet is a thousand times more entertaining and I have adblock on it. Between computer games, the web, and various things I download there's just no point to tv anymore. Everything it does the internet does better.
Watching tv at this point is like listening to the radio when you have an mp3 player full of everything you could possibly want to listen to... |
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Bobster2
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As more are more people use devices such as TIVO or DVR you'll start seeing more and more of this stuff happening. They are evening discussing ways to play static images while people are fast forwarding through commercials just to get advertisements out. The in-show pausing and other things are was to still bombard us commercial skippers with these lame advertisements. |
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Shaft
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I agree completely. While I am mostly pissed about the TBS decision to almost entirely cut Braves broadcasts and replace it with 300 episodes of Everyone Loves Raymond and that Tyler Perry show, this is really crappy too.
I remember the halcyon days of TBS in the early to mid 90's, where they just showed awesome movies like Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the like all the time, along with every Braves game. Better days, |
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