Am I the only one?

[magicjellybeans]

Am I the only one that thinks TV's programming quality has jumped the shark?
When you watch,you have to see 20 minutes of commercials,then 1 minute of programming.
The channel logos and whats coming up next boxes make it even worse.
Internet and DVD are looking better and better.

 

[stevations]

I get dizzy watching cable tv, all of the stuff at the bottom of the screen, going right in the middle of a program to a commercial with no pause, fast zooming the camera, over produced graphics. Then there is the content....car crashes, gun fire, surgeries, yelling.....about the only thing left they have not shown is defication. I remember when people watched TV to relax. Thank god for dvds of old movies and old tv shows. No you are not the only one.

 

[RBW]

Count me in too. Those damn "bugs" at the bottom can become quite obnoxious! Sometimes, a "you are watching" can be helpful, but when people & graphics just pop-up, it gets distracting. Not to mention some of the content as was described. Yuck!

 

[therealjm12]

I am surprised that the Hollywood unions have not been able to put an end to that nonsense. After all, the people who work on those shows are artists (ok, the term varies). These mini commercials are distracting from what is going on the screen - And the shrinking of the credits at the end of programs so you can't read the names of the people that labored on them. Personally, I think it's disgusting. Where is SAG, AFTRA, and the rest of the unions protecting their members integrity?

 

[BobRoss]

A static, semi-transparent bug that serves the bare minimum of ID'ing the station is OK with me. Honestly, I don't watch nearly as much TV as I used to, and recently moved to a new area where all the channels are different. Not a problem when I'm in my living room, where the digital cable box's program navigator is available. But anywhere else in the house, I only have memorized about 6 or 7 channels, and I usually go bug-surfing when I'm looking for something else.

But large, opaque, animated bugs are annoying -- especially when they block other graphics (like lower-third supers) in the actual program.

 

[Mark Giardina]

What I find annoying is most shows today don't even bother to end their program with theme music and credits. Instead some announcer comes on to promote another show on the network while the ending of the show is reduced to some small box at the top of the TV screen.

I also agree there is no need to super-impose network logos during the entire time a show is running. :

 

[Mike Sheridan]

Am I the only one that thinks TV's programming quality has jumped the shark?
When you watch,you have to see 20 minutes of commercials,then 1 minute of programming.
The channel logos and whats coming up next boxes make it even worse.
Internet and DVD are looking better and better.

Right there with ya. So much so that we have not upgraded our TV sets. Still using the old CRT sets till they die.

I know of two friends who had LCD sets die and both were expensive major brands, not junk.

My kids, their friends, and my cousin have no way to watch over the air TV. They only watch things on the internet and DVD's.

 

[cd637299]

As a TV DXer, I am all for the logo bug! Even in analog, TV in other countries has them too. (Nice that I don't have to wait for a station ID or local commercial to see which station it is!)

As to the commercial increases, you betcha that it's annoying. Especially as I like game shows, and what *was* 6 minutes per half hour is now about 8, correct? Not much "game" to watch! (Amazing how Alex Trebek can "clear the board" on Jeopardy! despite that!....Fleming never could, in the ol' days! Of course he made comments between the clues....)

And NFL Football....hoo boy. I get a kick out of it, when a team drives for a touchdown ever-so-slowly/methodically, running 10 minutes off the clock....puts the networks in a tizzy about commercial time....

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