old shows being messed with

[DaveWM]

Rant.

lately I have noticed a lot of missing bits from old classics like star trek (OS) where I assume cuts have been made to stick a couple more commercials in, yuk. This was on MeTV, guess I should not complain as its the only channel worth watching.

Next Univision deporta what ever that is commercial that runs nearly every break on the new "el rey" network. I am there for X files, but geez they keep showing the same stupid over saturated soccer commercial at every break including showing it several times in a row. geez. It makes the ambulance chasers look classy.

[Sandy G]

Ayup. The name of the game is sell, Sell, SELL !!

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by DaveWM

Rant.

lately I have noticed a lot of missing bits from old classics like star trek (OS) where I assume cuts have been made to stick a couple more commercials in, yuk. This was on MeTV, guess I should not complain as its the only channel worth watching.

Next Univision deporta what ever that is commercial that runs nearly every break on the new "el rey" network. I am there for X files, but geez they keep showing the same stupid over saturated soccer commercial at every break including showing it several times in a row. geez. It makes the ambulance chasers look classy.

The clipped out a few of the classic lines from "The Munsters", that I always used to laugh at. They did this several years ago!
BTW, I never was much of a trekky . I worked second shift for several years and never followed it.

[Dangler]

I noticed on Tvland in the mornings, they expanded The Andy Griffith Show to 38 minutes. A commercial every five minutes. Now the program and ads are pretty much equal in time. You don't know if you're watching a tv show or an infomercial interrupted by those pesky clips. I gave up watching it about two years ago after the tenth rerun of the same old crap.

[Jon A.]

Not exactly an existing show being messed with, but Garfield and Friends was one of my favorite shows as a kid; the more recent version is a bunch of freaky-looking CGI-animated crap. The damn DVDs for the original series are out of print too.

[Chip Chester]

Keep in mind that, if the service is free, you (and your eyeballs) are the product.
And that their alternative to cutting out bits is to time-compress it, and deal with jerky motion and audio artifacts for the entire show.
Chip

[David Roper]

Although always disappointing, this is very old news. At one point during Columbo's run on the CBS Late Movie, episodes that originally ran two hours in length were being edited to run in an 80-minute slot.

Rod Serling's Night Gallery anthology ran for an hour for its first two seasons, but in syndication was offered as a half hour. As a result many segments were butchered in order to run within the allotted time.

[Boobtubeman]

I give Metv a little credit, Im seeing some extra scenes in MASH that i havent seen since original air, but yet there is some cutting still. TVLand just needs to be flushed, Viacom has turned every channel they own to CRAP..

And they have been making it so a DVR misses the final minutes of shows all due to the overun with the added commercials...

SR

[Retro in RI]

Originally Posted by Chip Chester

Keep in mind that, if the service is free, you (and your eyeballs) are the product.
And that their alternative to cutting out bits is to time-compress it, and deal with jerky motion and audio artifacts for the entire show.
Chip

Yep. One of the many reasons I recently cancelled cable and went OTA is because I was paying for tv and having to sit through what seemed like more and more commercials all the time. I remember some people scoffing at the idea of paying for tv when cable first came out, and the selling point was fewer or no commercials. HA!!!

Now, I'll suffer through all the mesothelioma comercials etc on METV (or get up and do something else for a few minutes til the show comes back on) knowing that I'm at least getting quality programming and not paying out of pocket.

It is a shame that they cut scenes though. Here's an idea:How about cutting credits?

Al

[philcophan]

Has anyone noticed the speed up of the intro and outro of many programs so we can get blasted with yet more commercials??? With the advent of digital processing the tempo stays the same but lyrics and music sound like the super fast disclaimers in commercials... LOL!!!

[Countryford]

I rarely watch OTA TV or cable TV(no longer have). I have quite a few TV shows on DVD and just watch those. I pick up a new show every so often. I have well over 100 different TV shows on DVD. Some are just one or two seasons and some are the complete series.

[DaveWM]

I wonder what the age cut off for TV viewing is. I have kids that rarely (never) turn on the set. When I was young we lived by it, had the schedule memorized, and it was a family event. All too recall the cable selling point as little to no commercials. The prob now seems to be way too much to choose from (channels) with garbage on most of it.

oh well I presume all the new gens will be able to complain about the good old days of texting on mobile devices in a few decades.

I must say I find it amusing to see young folks walking, sitting,eating,being awake, and constantly flipping there thumbs at little screens, best fun is watching as they walk into a bush or tree completely oblivious to the surroundings.

Driving is a different story, that is serious bus and I really wish all the mobile devise folk could get un hooked for the time they are behind the wheel. Oh well thats my rant for the day.

[Robb]

Originally Posted by DaveWM

The prob now seems to be way too much to choose from (channels) with garbage on most of it.

Exactly. It is a bad time in history we are living in.
Give me 1946-1980 all day !

[Sandy G]

I honestly think if I ran into J.G. Wentworth on the street, I would find it difficult NOT to tear his head off w/my bare hands, & then Sh!t down his throat... If there even is a REAL person named "J.G. Wentworth"...

[DaveWM]

funny thing about JG, how many times I wonder did some responsible person set up a trust to dole out money in a vein attempt to protect some dope heir from blowing it, just to have that process circumvented by a JG wentworth.

This is why trustees should be used with discretion as to how to deal with estates (if you happen to be well off enough to have one that is), leaving the dope heir completely out of the loop.