Enough with all the clutter (graphics) on my HD screen! - Page 92

Me: "Hmm, War Games is on AMC. I haven't seen that for a long time. I think I'll watch it for a while."

AMC: "We thought you might consider enjoying a movie that you remember fondly, but we've decided to not only have a permanent color banner for The Walking Dead at the top of the screen (to remind the 2 people in the country who didn't know about The Walking Dead) but we thought since you couldn't look this information up yourself using, I don't know, the internet, we'd have pop-up "facts" running across the screen and ads for crap on AMC.com.

I have a strict policy with AMC. Never view any programming that originates from the channel outside of the Blu-ray releases.

It's been working great.

As long as you aren't interested in discussing the show here or on other forums, and don't care if it gets spoiled by people on Twitter, Facebook, or random blogs.

We've had Wargames on DVD for the last 9 years. Its safe from AMC's screen clutter and butchering. AMC is horrible when it comes to this.

I'm kinda bummed, KNSD about 6-8 months ago decided to put the NBC Peacock logo on "Wheel of Fortune" & "Jeopardy!" What's really annoying is that logo is slightly above where the logo would be for NBC primetime programming.

NBC is back with the promo bugs on screen for "Smash"

In addition to the annoying ticker NHL Network keeps on the screen during live games there is now a giant annoying NHL LIVE bug on the top right.

I noticed that too. There was one point the letters "NHL" appeared six times on the screen between logos and ticker line crap.

Sad but true. The last time NBC did this crap I quit watching their shows until they stopped it. Missed the better part of the last season of ER after watching the entire run up to that point. Looks like it's the end of GRIMM for me now as well. MOFO's...


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Anyone here from the NYC area and prehistoric enough to remember Sandy Becker snapping the Maggio carrot during the "station identification break"?

There is one thing I cannot understand, how do people put up with this nonsense? Where is the outcry? Oh well, it's their money. AFAIC, I have better things to spend my hard-earned cash on.

Cause nobody cares. I complained about a year ago on my local CBS affiliate's Facebook page about a new non-transparent logo they put up (huge), and was met with about 150 complaints....all about my complaining (or whining, apparently)

"I don't even notice it" and "Well, don't watch then" ranked among most responses.

About the only time I ever remember being any kindof outcry was that time they actually paused Family Guy so the Bill Engvall show promotion/snipe could actually talk. At least I haven't seen anything like that anymore.

So the first airings of this season of Dog the Bounty Hunter are completely unwatchable. I don't want to read what idiots on the Internet are writing about the show scrolling on top of the screen the entire time.

Congrats on losing a viewer, A&E.

They are probably gooned on the juice.

Yeah but what do you expect from a CBS audience? They comprise of the most easily satisfied and least discerning audience in broadcasting. The majority are probably still watching the SD feed of CBS on their HDTVs thinking that it's HD.

Every cable company carries SD versions of almost every HD channel they carry. Not sure why you make it seem like some foreign concept.

Could be shills. There's a whole industry built around it. They're like flies on ****, all over the place now.

A pretty well-known electronics firm sent me an email recently with an offer to become a paid, "disguised" one for them, on internet forums. If they're coming after someone like me to do it, I can only imagine how prevalent it must be now.

(In case you're wondering, I just copied the email, wiped my @$$ with it after I took a big dump, and sent it right back to them. )

My wife and I watched New Girl from last week tonight, and I was almost blinded by the POS snipe for Touched. It was a bright flash that took up the entire screen when it came and went. I missed the earlier recording but have decided to not watch that show now.

My disgust for the corporate greed that has ruined pay TV drives me to shill against them.

And the people who pay for pay tv.

Oh man. Discovery Communications is really pissing me off this week. This garbage was all over the screen on Friday:



At this rate they're probably going to add a scrolling bar like A&E telling us what idiots on the Internet think about what they're watching.

It's bad enough having it on one side but having it on TWO sides at the top AND bottom is incredibly distracting.



I don't care about this crap! Get this **** off my ponies, damn it! Go back to your transparent logo you bastards. Leave my Hub alone!



TLC is now putting this Twitter hashtag crap on ALL of their programming. Same issue as Discovery: thrown up on the complete opposite side of the screen so you get distractions all around.

I want to strangle whoever is in charge of the graphics department at Discovery. And I want to strangle the people who actually tweet this trash and encourage this nonsense even harder.

I took my car in to get my tires rotated and balanced today and they had cable TV in the waiting room. Since I was the only one in there I flipped through the channels and was shocked at all the screen clutter I saw. AMC had a movie on and they had the AMC bug on the bottom right of the screen and on the bottom left of the screen they had in huge letters "THE WALKING DEAD" and what day it was coming on. They left this junk on the screen the whole time. I had it on for about 5 minutes and it was so hard to look at I had to change the channel to something else. I don't see how anybody can watch TV like this or pay the price the pay TV companies charge these days. Plus the only thing I saw on that was interesting was a movie that I already had on DVD for the last 6 years. Pay TV has gotten worse since I cut the cord in 2008.

Yes, it is absolutely terrible that way - even worse than the broadcast channels.

I have a basic package myself, but not for those channels with scripted and semi-scripted (meaning "reality") programming, which I never watch, with that being one of the reasons.

However, it's still worth it to me and some others. Remember, too, that we're talking mainly about HD in this forum. A lot of the stuff on cable you can't get on Blu-ray, let alone even your beloved SD-DVD.

I have one question, though - if the clutter thing disgusts you that much, how can you even watch the broadcast channels over OTA?

In the NYC area WPIX is the worst with snipes during syndicated programming.
Some of them are actual animated commercials running over the show.

With only one exception (a countdown for a season premier of Lost), I can't remember any broadcast channels having near the same amount of junk left up on the screen as I see on some cable channels. Yeah the snipes can be annoying, but at least they go away. I wonder if they realize that I literally watch less TV than I would if it wasn't so annoying .

Also, anyone notice how clean both episodes of Smash have been on NBC? If they'd just move the logo to where its not 4:3 safe and make it less opaque, I'd be a completely "happy camper".

You won't find anyone here that will disagree with you on this. We are all annoyed, upset, and very, unhappy about the clutter on our screens while we are ATTEMPTING to watch the program we tuned in to see for entertainment! I wish there was an effective way of dealing with it OTHER than turning off the television, which deprives me of the entertainment I seek.

Heh heh - yeah.... tell me about it.

I thought that back when reality programming first came out, too.