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Me too for most of that. I hate previews of TV programs. If I am watching an
episode of something that stops leaving the viewers in suspense, I don't
want to see what is going to happen in the next episode until next week.
Even more annoying is - as you note Graham - squashing up to half the screen
of the end credits just to show a preview of the next program. For heaven's
sake, just tell me, I can wait. I don't need to see a preview of the News
headlines immediately before the News. TV has got to stop employing morons
that are dumbing down life and get some real program planners in.

And talking about 'logos', I've noticed that the new trend of showing a
preview of what is coming on next for ANOTHER channel complete with their
logo: this is confusing the hell out of many people. The number of times
I've watched say BBC1 and at the end of a program they have advertised
what's on next on BBC2 and my wife has prompted me, 'Well aren't you going
to switch over to BBC1 for the News'?

Terry

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
While I personally have no interest in who the producer's driver was or
who any number of sundry other people are, I am sure that those in the
industry are interested and being at the end if you don't want to watch
them you don't have to. What I personally find infuriating is TV companies
who split the screen to put trails over the start of the credits so that
the all important cast listing is impossible to read, with voice-overs to
destroy the music. And don't even get me started on the subject of TV
channel logos that seem to occupy a large portion of the screen. I know
which channel I am on because I selected it! I don't need a constant
reminder. Grrrrr! And do deaf people really find that tiny figure signing
in the corner of the screen - so small that you have to concentrate on it,
but so large that it is distracting - more helpful than sub-titles?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

It gets worse. I am currently watching the first series of Dexter (brilliant
by the way) from an internet source, and that has ribbons across the bottom
of the screen advertising the next program popping up every few minutes and
the third series has a damned great logo bottom right pointing out that the
image is in HDTV - even though I am not watching it on an HD TV. And here in
Cyprus the local TV companies frequently use a news ticker across the top of
the screen and break off the broadcast program to a trail for another
program without any regard for the action on screen (mid sentence is common)
and without any dividing marker, so you can often be left wondering whether
the new scene is part of the film you are watching of something else. Given
the numbers of students taking media studies, you would expect that at least
some of them might actually have learned something - but apparently not

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Terry Farrell wrote:
Me too for most of that. I hate previews of TV programs. If I am
watching an episode of something that stops leaving the viewers in
suspense, I don't want to see what is going to happen in the next
episode until next week. Even more annoying is - as you note Graham -
squashing up to half the screen of the end credits just to show a
preview of the next program. For heaven's sake, just tell me, I can
wait. I don't need to see a preview of the News headlines immediately
before the News. TV has got to stop employing morons that are dumbing
down life and get some real program planners in.
And talking about 'logos', I've noticed that the new trend of showing
a preview of what is coming on next for ANOTHER channel complete with
their logo: this is confusing the hell out of many people. The number
of times I've watched say BBC1 and at the end of a program they have
advertised what's on next on BBC2 and my wife has prompted me, 'Well
aren't you going to switch over to BBC1 for the News'?

Terry

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
While I personally have no interest in who the producer's driver was
or who any number of sundry other people are, I am sure that those
in the industry are interested and being at the end if you don't
want to watch them you don't have to. What I personally find
infuriating is TV companies who split the screen to put trails over
the start of the credits so that the all important cast listing is
impossible to read, with voice-overs to destroy the music. And don't
even get me started on the subject of TV channel logos that seem to
occupy a large portion of the screen. I know which channel I am on
because I selected it! I don't need a constant reminder. Grrrrr! And
do deaf people really find that tiny figure signing in the corner of
the screen - so small that you have to concentrate on it, but so
large that it is distracting - more helpful than sub-titles? --

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

I'll second all of those complaints. I suppose it isn't necessary to note
that we've wandered pretty far off-topic here?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
It gets worse. I am currently watching the first series of Dexter
(brilliant by the way) from an internet source, and that has ribbons
across the bottom of the screen advertising the next program popping up
every few minutes and the third series has a damned great logo bottom
right pointing out that the image is in HDTV - even though I am not
watching it on an HD TV. And here in Cyprus the local TV companies
frequently use a news ticker across the top of the screen and break off
the broadcast program to a trail for another program without any regard
for the action on screen (mid sentence is common) and without any dividing
marker, so you can often be left wondering whether the new scene is part
of the film you are watching of something else. Given the numbers of
students taking media studies, you would expect that at least some of them
might actually have learned something - but apparently not

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Terry Farrell wrote:
Me too for most of that. I hate previews of TV programs. If I am
watching an episode of something that stops leaving the viewers in
suspense, I don't want to see what is going to happen in the next
episode until next week. Even more annoying is - as you note Graham -
squashing up to half the screen of the end credits just to show a
preview of the next program. For heaven's sake, just tell me, I can
wait. I don't need to see a preview of the News headlines immediately
before the News. TV has got to stop employing morons that are dumbing
down life and get some real program planners in.
And talking about 'logos', I've noticed that the new trend of showing
a preview of what is coming on next for ANOTHER channel complete with
their logo: this is confusing the hell out of many people. The number
of times I've watched say BBC1 and at the end of a program they have
advertised what's on next on BBC2 and my wife has prompted me, 'Well
aren't you going to switch over to BBC1 for the News'?

Terry

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
While I personally have no interest in who the producer's driver was
or who any number of sundry other people are, I am sure that those
in the industry are interested and being at the end if you don't
want to watch them you don't have to. What I personally find
infuriating is TV companies who split the screen to put trails over
the start of the credits so that the all important cast listing is
impossible to read, with voice-overs to destroy the music. And don't
even get me started on the subject of TV channel logos that seem to
occupy a large portion of the screen. I know which channel I am on
because I selected it! I don't need a constant reminder. Grrrrr! And
do deaf people really find that tiny figure signing in the corner of
the screen - so small that you have to concentrate on it, but so
large that it is distracting - more helpful than sub-titles? --

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

I download several TV progs from the Internet (House, Heroes, Dexter from
http://eztv.it/index.php) and get really annoyed by the logos. But on the
good side is the Ads have been removed - which is more than sufficient
compensation.

I think we are off topic now!

Terry

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
It gets worse. I am currently watching the first series of Dexter
(brilliant by the way) from an internet source, and that has ribbons
across the bottom of the screen advertising the next program popping up
every few minutes and the third series has a damned great logo bottom
right pointing out that the image is in HDTV - even though I am not
watching it on an HD TV. And here in Cyprus the local TV companies
frequently use a news ticker across the top of the screen and break off
the broadcast program to a trail for another program without any regard
for the action on screen (mid sentence is common) and without any dividing
marker, so you can often be left wondering whether the new scene is part
of the film you are watching of something else. Given the numbers of
students taking media studies, you would expect that at least some of them
might actually have learned something - but apparently not

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP