Posted by: gbeer
FX network is going too too far. - 13/06/2007 01:53
We've all seen the network bugs that sit in the lower corner of the screen, and then the animated bugs announcing the next hit show that we are invited to watch for... but now those same animated bugs have accompanying SOUND EFFECTS.
Movies, programmed for wide dynamic sound, needing the volume turned up to hear the dialog, are a real problem as the bug's sound is programmed at the volume level typically reserved for commercials.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: FX network is going too too far. - 13/06/2007 01:57
Oh, that's been going on for a while. At least a year.
Posted by: gbeer
Re: FX network is going too too far. - 13/06/2007 02:12
This one was for "The Shield" starts with low sirens and ends with a very loud gunshot that overwhelms the existing audio.
Edit: I was wrong the noisy bug was for "The Precinct"
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: FX network is going too too far. - 13/06/2007 02:16
That sounds familiar. I think I remember being irritated by it during last season's The Closer. Nope: that's on TNT. Maybe Rescue Me.
Actually, I seem to remember them advertising Nip/Tuck, too, with some sort of steel-on-steel sound.
Posted by: gbeer
Re: FX network is going too too far. - 13/06/2007 02:22
I just saw the Rescue Me bug, Huge, flaming but no audio.
I think it's a plot, intended to get fewer people watching network tv.
Posted by: tman
Re: FX network is going too too far. - 13/06/2007 10:14
Eww. They should be paying you to watch that crap if so. Its amazing to think that somebody out there thought it was a good idea and that it wouldn't piss off every watcher.
Posted by: Dignan
Re: FX network is going too too far. - 13/06/2007 10:41
Yeah, I've seen that crap before. I hate that stuff. The "bugs" without sound are bad enough.
I do have hope that the bugs with sound effects will phase out, though. I think enough people are complaining about them that they're realizing it's a bad idea. Why do I have hope? Because it seems to me that G4, one of the worst channels on the air, has stopped using them. Maybe I'm wrong, though. The few shows I used to watch on that network I don't watch much anymore.
Posted by: gbeer
Re: FX network is going too too far. - 15/06/2007 01:22
What is really crazy about these bugs (for some reason I keep miss typing bugs as buts) is that they are all advertising other shows on FX and that the last commercial during the break was a house ad for... another show.