ITV footie coverage ruined by Adverts

[Sysman]

I always thought the people making the ads adjusted the levels, or it was to do with dynamic range and other techy things... in some way it was louder audibly without being louder in the technical sense, rather than them adjusting the volume knob for ads.

Can anyone who knows about audio or TV comment on this?

Yep. I recall a thread about this. Whatever technical argument they hide behind, I don't want to try to explain this to neighbours when I'm watching a late night film.

[d000hg]

I got into the habit of doing this when I realised that they whopped up the volume for ads. Nip to the kitchen for a cup of tea and you could find that the ads were blasting the neighbourhood out.

ITV apparently got their hands slapped for this.

I always thought the people making the ads adjusted the levels, or it was to do with dynamic range and other techy things... in some way it was louder audibly without being louder in the technical sense, rather than them adjusting the volume knob for ads.

Can anyone who knows about audio or TV comment on this?

[BoredBloke]

It's American documentaries that do that, nothing to do with them being on Sky (Five show many of the same ones). Typically the narration has been redone by a British voice artist, but they're obviously American made programmes.

I realise that - it's just that I tend to watch them on sky!

[Sysman]

That's what Sky+ was made for.

We never watch ITV, Ch4, 5, etc live anymore. We record it and watch it 20 minutes later, blitzing the ads.

We never used to mind them but they're now almost as frequent as Sky ads.

I got into the habit of doing this when I realised that they whopped up the volume for ads. Nip to the kitchen for a cup of tea and you could find that the ads were blasting the neighbourhood out.

ITV apparently got their hands slapped for this.

[Sysman]

It's American documentaries that do that, nothing to do with them being on Sky (Five show many of the same ones). Typically the narration has been redone by a British voice artist, but they're obviously American made programmes.

WHS. I once tried watching one about Hollywood car stunts.

It was really about one stunt. The repetition was mind numbing.

[VectraMan]

What bugs me more than adverts on sky are the crap documentaries where the repeat everything you have just watched to pad it out

It's American documentaries that do that, nothing to do with them being on Sky (Five show many of the same ones). Typically the narration has been redone by a British voice artist, but they're obviously American made programmes.

[BoredBloke]

What bugs me more than adverts on sky are the crap documentaries where the repeat everything you have just watched to pad it out

Something like seconds from disaster is a good example. First section of the show you see all the passengers getting on a plane and taking off a bit of a back story about some of the passengers. Then a bang and the plane falls out of the sky. Then adverts. Then they show you the passengers getting back on the plane and it crashing. What's the point of this other than to pad a 30 min show to a 60 min one! to get those who have just tuned in to get up to speed - feck em, if they couldn't be arsed tuning in from the start!

[VectraMan]

That's what Sky+ was made for.

We never watch ITV, Ch4, 5, etc live anymore. We record it and watch it 20 minutes later, blitzing the ads.

WSS. Haven't watched ads for years. Every now and again I find myself watching something on live TV, but then as soon as there's an ad break I'll press record and watch something else instead. Or just switch off the TV.

Don't know about ITV (honestly why would anybody ever watch anything on ITV), but lots of the pay channels (the UK Gold ones are the worst) have ad breaks that go on forever.

[d000hg]

C4 ads are still mostly on 30min intervals, except in 30 minute programs. However quite recently I've noticed that on short programs, they are showing the entire program with NO adverts, which is pretty cool. I think it's only out of peak times - I've seen it around 8am and 11pm.

Compared to Sky, C4 is brilliant. It's crazy you pay more to watch more ads. But I understand that even English Sky is still better than US TV?

[cojak]

That's what Sky+ was made for.

We never watch ITV, Ch4, 5, etc live anymore. We record it and watch it 20 minutes later, blitzing the ads.

We never used to mind them but they're now almost as frequent as Sky ads.

[AtW]

Yeah, got proper TV recently (Sky), and noticed those Babylon 5 / Farscape stuff on it - ffs adverts like every 10 mins, and they ain't 30 seconds either FFS - going to watch them off my DVDs now.

[MonzaMike]

As it's an FA cup weekend it's ITV that get to show the highlights.

Number and length of adverts is appalling. When you add on the analysis I doub't that a third of the program is actually football....