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>> ^KnivesOut:

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Thanks!

I remember when they used to show uninterrupted credits on television. Does that make me old?

credits? you still have them? completely gone on german tv.

spam television was why I cut cable in the mid 90's and turned to piracy of television.

in the early and mid 90's I worked for DirecTV and we had entire scripts to explain to complainers about commercials and also spam ranked by channel, at the time espn ranked #1 in spam. with like 10 mins of content to 20 mins of spam ratio.

We'd have these groups come in from the networks to explain to us and give us talks on marketing and such with commercials, and I finally woke up.

After I left the job to move onto working in network operations admin for ISP, I turned off pay for tv, and have been a television pirate ever since.

no commercials, no annoyances, ever. And it doesn't affect ratings, as I was on the inside and worked closely with nielson families at one point in my career. Which the ratings system is a joke anyhow. Which is why half the scifi stuff gets cancelled when it has huge support, most nielson families the ratings box is ran by the older father or mother who don't really care for the scifi stuff in the first place and would rather watch Andy Griffith reruns.


the networks of course hate me from 1996 to today non stop pirating, and thanks to companies like Western Digital who make set top box for pirates by pirates is their unofficial motto in the forums.

The WD TV live box supports all codecs normally used by pirates, it's like the vlc player of set top boxes, costs 100 bucks and will stream any downloaded video files off a shared folder on your pc or you can plug in a usb thumbdrive or hard drive. Or with added app you can install a torrent program that lets you stream while torrenting all in 1080p HD.

I always appreciate the way HBO still plays proper credits on their series. It is a way of showing respect to the audience, and to the people who created their programing.

Favorite Credit:

Rabbi Fluffer
Emma Harris

I've noticed that some cable places throw the opening credits over the actual show now, with like a 5 second blurb of the show title instead of the opening introductions, like with pictures of the stars n such.

Vastly improved if you ask me.

Credits? One of the commercial channels in Australia used to half the viewing area of Futurama 15 seconds before the show actually finished and talk over the entire ending.

I believe it's "who killed whom", Mr. Mitchell.

The Queen's English indeed!

I liked how the credits on some older English shows went horizontally across the bottom of the screen, less intrusive and still gets the job done.

I've had a number of endings of various shows ruined by the announcer talking over the conclusion. So one is watching a whodunnit and dont get to hear whodunnit.

>> ^steroidg:

Credits? One of the commercial channels in Australia used to half the viewing area of Futurama 15 seconds before the show actually finished and talk over the entire ending.

So, we need to establish a protocol.

The credits should be allowed to finish; followed by three seconds of absolute silence and blackness; then the announcer may, using as few words as possible, state in a monotone voice the name of the channel, the next program and any additional information such as it's a double bill or special nude episode; then one more second of silence; then whatever commercials or bullshit; then silence; annoucement; silence; program. If these rules were followed to the letter the world would be probably about a 3% better place to live.