Ads that get right on your tits

[Flabio]

Or the Gold Blend ones *shudder*.

[Portland]

Or the Gold Blend ones *shudder*.

Don't you be fucking with Giles, watcher king of the beastie sanctuary

[piku]

I just noticed the TV channel "Dave" turns up the volume on the channel when the adverts come on. IT'S REALLY IRRITATING!

[Flabio]

any. any. any. any. any car from 50 quid to a hundred grand...

[piku]

My world is spending too much on computer tat this year.

And Virgin 1's way of putting up "Back to the action" to tell us when the ads are over, but then sliding two more in before the program actually returns.

[Mellers]

I just noticed the TV channel "Dave" turns up the volume on the channel when the adverts come on. IT'S REALLY IRRITATING!

AFAIK they all do.

[Flabio]

It used to be the flip between stereo and mono that caused the volume jump (the programs would be in stereo, the adverts in mono). Doubt it's the case anymore.

[gilesgoat]

It used to be the flip between stereo and mono that caused the volume jump (the programs would be in stereo, the adverts in mono). Doubt it's the case anymore.

I think it's purely intentional, at least in Italy it was, I know as fact because it got SO annoying that people complained
so much and ( incredibly but it did work ) it ended up with the government approving a law that says "they can't increase
the volume more than X% between ads and movies", mind you we have laws also about "how many times you can
interrupt a movie with ads" ..

Allocation of time and ads are quite regulated .. thankfully, because it was a shite ( i.e. things like "400 ads in the last
15 mins of the end of a movie" ).

[piku]

Those Boots adverts are getting annoying now. It's not the ads themselves, just the irritating music.

I think they can change the music now, they've used it for at least two years.

[carolen]

Pampers™ Golden Sleep

Shudder

[Gorecki]

It used to be the flip between stereo and mono that caused the volume jump (the programs would be in stereo, the adverts in mono). Doubt it's the case anymore.

I don't think that tv channels are legally allowed to adjust the volume between programmes and adverts. So the way they get round it is by mixing everything up to the max (technical term, do try to keep up) in the same way that music is often mastered to make it louder.

Plus of course there's the fact that most tv programmes aren't designed to be a series of cacophonous, shrieking, attention-seeking bangs (apart from the X-Factor) so the difference is even more pronounced.

[piku]

Pampers™ Golden Sleep

Shudder

ooh that reminds me of this vomit-inducing one



Because patronising adverts are irritating adverts!

[Alarm]

Eww, that is a horrible advert.

[Mark]

Christ, I've just seen a L'Oreal advert with the catchphrase "Inspired by the science of genes". I don't even know where to start with that.

"Inspired to hunting down ad-men and beating them to death with their own severed limbs by the barrage of inane and ridiculous horseshit", perhaps.

[piku]

The "Supertelly" Sky adverts are irritating. Everything from the singing, to the really slow and boring advert itself that is quite repetitive.



Almost as crap as the Microsoft XBox ones where you saw in the backs of people's heads.