(ignore the old TV)

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

  • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    9722 days ago

    I can’t ignore the old TV.

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

    • @Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world
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      3122 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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        1222 days ago

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

    • @Hubi@feddit.org
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      1022 days ago

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

  • Ricky Rigatoni
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    6122 days ago

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

  • @joenforcer@midwest.social
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    6122 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.

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      821 days 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

        • ivanafterall ☑️
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          22 days ago

          I thought sports was about wealthy, unscrupulous white men fighting each other over the right to have the most-talented black men go to work in their fields.

      • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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        421 days ago

        Nah, that is to keep potential clients interested.

        They keep adding rules to the sport to make it more “TV viewing friendly”, meaning more breaks to show ads. I mean, the superbowl is just ads with sport attached.

        • @mhague@lemmy.world
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          Look at the sports with systemic ad presence vs sports where it’s all “grass roots.” (The grass roots ones are mostly gone.)

          Most top sports are incredibly expensive to keep running and the ones that become infested with ads are the ones that stick around for us to enjoy. If you follow less popular sports you’ll consider yourself lucky to bring in ads and sponsors.

  • Scrubbles
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    3822 days ago

    We have very different ideas of what a banner ad is

  • @qwestjest78@lemmy.ca
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    2522 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

  • Captain Aggravated
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    1421 days 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.

  • @foggy@lemmy.world
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    822 days ago

    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.

    • SanguinePar
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      222 days ago

      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).

      • @foggy@lemmy.world
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        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.

  • @TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
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    822 days ago

    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.