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(ignore the old TV)

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

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[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 126 points 1 week ago

I hate to be the guy to tell you, man. But, they’ve been doing this shit for like, 30 years man.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 96 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can't ignore the old TV.

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

[–] Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the picture quality is terrible by modern standards. Give me OLED any day.

[–] Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is terrible for modern media, but for legacy media give me analog signal any day

[–] cfi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Agreed, though I'll take a Trinitron over an RPTV any day

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That rear projection beast was the best darn television for ~~tests~~ years until Pioneer made plasmas. I miss ours deeply and wish we’d had the space to keep it (especially for retro gaming and the yearly playing of the Star Wars laser disk).

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My bad. Must have made a slip up on the swipe keyboard. I meant “years”. I’ve edited my post to correct.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 week ago

You can't hide your secret tests from us.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't the whole point of sports to be able to advertise?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is it? I thought it was to get more points than the other team. I've been playing wrong this whole time?

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Definitely playing wrong. It’s about money, Gatorade, and getting enough CTE to justify killing your wife. /s

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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[–] danciestlobster@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

This take is why you keep losing at golf

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In golf, you want to score less.

We have very different ideas of what a banner ad is

[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week 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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

that's espn, dude.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

That TV looks killer for retro consoles...

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the refresh rate on these? Since they're back projected

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of those rear-projection TV were 60 Hz, with the high-end ones often having 120 Hz.

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Looks like a projection set, so no, they're pretty bad for games.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was never allowed to play games on ours because it could cause screen burn in.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

Your TV is awesome, and I'd would absolutely love to play some Metal Gear Solid on that bastard.

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.

[–] tacostrange@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

I hate the mid-game ads that take up 2/3 of the screen

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ha, I bet :-)

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Damn that TV must have very good sounds compared to nowadays TV

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I've completely given up on watching broadcast TV. Recently they made a change in Germany, where you have to pay extra for cable TV. Which I won't do so now I don't have cable any more. I haven't even noticed the difference.

[–] FleetingTit@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have you watched a game of Association Football (or real football) lately? They digitally alter the ads on physical LED banners for different broadcast regions.

[–] couggod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I noticed it on an NHL broadcast recently. I guess it's cool they can do that now, but it removes the local flavor of the team hosting the event.

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[–] frankpsy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

This was already common practice to promote other shows during broadcasts way back when I last watched broadcast TV over a decade and a half ago.

That's good. It should serve as a reminder that you need to abandon a dinosaur push media. It's a subtle way to punish normies who haven't caught on yet.

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