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The weirdest thing...

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Wil

I am watching "Gettysburg" on History through Verizon Fios. My son went into the kitchen to grab a snack and put the show on our small kitchen TV also. The show went to commercial break and the 2nd or 3rd commercial in I have an insurance promo, the other TV shows that idiotic commercial with the girl going to college in her pajamas, then both TV's go back to the same commercial, then back to "Gettysburg". How exactly do two TV's in the same house on the same channel have a different commercial at the same time? Any guesses?
 
Was the "insurance" commercial you speak of for Progressive? If so, then your kitchen TV has surely had its fill of Flo! :mad:
 
Wil said:
I am watching "Gettysburg" on History through Verizon Fios. My son went into the kitchen to grab a snack and put the show on our small kitchen TV also. The show went to commercial break and the 2nd or 3rd commercial in I have an insurance promo, the other TV shows that idiotic commercial with the girl going to college in her pajamas, then both TV's go back to the same commercial, then back to "Gettysburg". How exactly do two TV's in the same house on the same channel have a different commercial at the same time? Any guesses?
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Was one SD and one HD?

BTW Cox Phoenix still does not do HD local spots.
 
No, both SD. That's what was weird about it. If a different commercial was on my HD box that would have made more sense.
 
Was one TV connected to a box and another connected directly to the cable? If so, maybe the one with the box was carrying a digital feed, which may carry different ads than the analog feed.
 
azumanga said:
Was one TV connected to a box and another connected directly to the cable? If so, maybe the one with the box was carrying a digital feed, which may carry different ads than the analog feed.
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Fios does not have any analog cable. It is digital cable only.
 
One is connected to a DVR box and one is connected to the little, no-frills digital converter box.
 
Wil said:
No, both SD. That's what was weird about it. If a different commercial was on my HD box that would have made more sense.
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I had this happen to me. Living room TV & Bedroom TV both tuned to FNC (118) I clicked over in the bedroom and then back and had a different local spot play from the living room TV. :-\

Then I decided to deliberately click away and back in the bedroom while the living room played FNC. I can now recreate this any time a local ad plays on 118. :)

Yes, I need a life. But I also need a job. :'( ;)
 
I vaguely remember experiments along these lines years ago by DirecTV, back when they were still affiliated with TiVo the first time.

The experiment was that hey would feed spots to TiVos on a private channel in the middle of the night, and would drop those spots in place of others during the live feed. So based on viewing habits, some people might get a DirecTV spot for MLB Extra Innings, others for this channel or that, others a PSA.

I don't think anything ever came of it, but it would be a logical development in narrow targeting of advertisements.
 
Does any one remember back when cable tv started that a cable company fed a phoney ad to get a free t shirt and it was only seen by people who were not paying for the cable to trap them?
 
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