Rich Wood wrote:

TV has taken clutter to awesome heights, both aural and visual.

There is (was) one channel out there (Bloomberg News?) that looked
more like a web page than a TV channel, with all the crawls, windows,
etc. on the screen ....

Vitually every channel has a "bug" supered over all but commercials.
Annoying as hell. During shows there's a crawl or a super about an
upcoming show. Crawls used to be used only for emergency information.
I can only imagine the anger of a movie director when he sees his
masterpiece splattered with material that destroys the mood he tried
to create. Often one super overlaps another.

Rich

In article , Charles Hobbs wrote:
There is (was) one channel out there (Bloomberg News?) that looked
more like a web page than a TV channel, with all the crawls, windows,
etc. on the screen ....

There is a reason for that. They're not trying to SELL you stuff,
they're trying to give you stock ticker, news capsules, time and
weather so that they can devote the "talking head" portion of the
screen to news and interviews that would otherwise would be
impossible to do if you had to break for all of the stuff that's
running on the crawls and tabs.

It's an efficient screen space use for an all-news channel. However,
it is annoying when the soap-opera, comedy or movie you're watching
gets blasted by this flash and then a crawl for an ad or promo starts
appearing at the bottom or top of the screen.

It was fine when they started doing ad crawls for the World Cup soccer
games so you didn't have to interrupt the fast moving games years ago,
but now it's gotten out of hand.

Maybe I wouldn't mind as much if the TV stations and cable channels
would just run ad crawls at the bottom and ditched the "spot" method
of advertising.

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Sven Weil
New York City, U.S.A.