• 4:3 footage zoomed to fit 16:9
  When using archive footage in a documentary, why on earth do they insist on zooming the original 4:3 picture so it fits the 16:9 widescreen format the documentary is made in.
  We're not stupid. We know they didn't have widescreen back then. Just show the footage in its original aspect ratio with black bars on either side. When you zoom in, aside from losing the top and bottom of the original footage, you also magnify the poor quality of it and make it annoyingly blurry.
  I recently watched the (otherwise) excellent documentary about Dads Army and the constant use of incredibly poor quality zoomed clips made it very difficult to watch after a while.
• Talking Animals
  Real animals don't talk. They're not human.
  Trying to make them look as if they are conversing with each other never works for me. I'm just not sure whether I dislike it more when the animals just 'look' at each other while someone does the voiceover, or when it's obvious that they've desperately tried to edit the animal's random mouth movements to make it appear that they are talking.
  Obviously, this doesn't apply to cartoons.
• Weather reporters that feel the need to get all 'emotional' about the forecast
  We've all seen the annoying buggers looking all upset because it's cold, or it's going to rain.
  What!?
  I couldn't care less. It really doesn't 'disappoint' me in any way whatsoever if tomorrow isn't going to be nice. If it's cold, I'll put on something warm. If it's raining, I'll take an umbrella.
  Which reminds me - STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO WEAR you ignorant pillocks.
  And another thing, they're not proper forecasters anymore (like Bert Ford), they're just presenters reading a script.
• Advertisements that change the words of well know songs
  It doesn't work. It's not big and it's not clever.
  If you do this, I will definitely NOT buy your products.
  Listen to the incredibly annoying Confused.com adverts to see what I mean.
• Extended repeats
  When they screen Have I Got News For You or QI, the show is always edited down to half an hour.
  Yet when they repeat it the following night, they always screen a 45 minute edit.
  JUST SHOW ME THE LONG VERSION IN THE FIRST PLACE.
• Noel Edmonds (specifically on Deal Or No Deal)
  Oi Edmonds, despite your repeated and pathetic attempts to convince anyone who'll listen of the benefits of "the power of positive though" and sh1te such as "cosmic ordering", it just simply isn't true. In fact, some clinical studies have shown that 'positive thought' actually works in exactly the opposite way.
  And another thing Edmonds... For the last time you bearded cretinous dwarf, THERE IS NO SKILL WHATSOEVER IN CHOOSING A BOX AT RANDOM.
  And why don't you also stop talking gibberish about probability. Stop saying complete crap like "What are the chances of the quarter million being in that box again today" and trying to make it sound like the chances against it are astronomical when they clearly are not.
  Mind you, one cannot moan about his bouffant and tidy beard................... oh, yeah.
• Using backgrounds to display facts
  Oooh look how clever I am. The bloke on the news is reporting about some housing shortage and I've displayed a graph of the data so it fits neatly on the wall of a house. I even got the perspective correct. Well not quite.
  Or the news reporter is describing current educational standards. I know, I'll display the information on a blackboard.
  NO. STOP IT. You smug pricks.

As ol Satchel Paige (or Louis Armstrong for that matter) might say..."are you loosenin' "??

SteveStrummerUK


 

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• NO. STOP IT. You smug pricks.

..  and the price of the licence fee to watch this cr*p is   (taking the p...)

SteveStrummerUK
 

• Talking Animals
  Real animals don't talk. They're not human.
  Trying to make them look as if they are conversing with each other never works for me. I'm just not sure whether I dislike it more when the animals just 'look' at each other while someone does the voiceover, or when it's obvious that they've desperately tried to edit the animal's random mouth movements to make it appear that they are talking.
  Obviously, this doesn't apply to cartoons.

 

You saying this isn't funny ?

american idol.

so.


annoyed.

batsbrew


american idol.

so.


annoyed.

Stretched aspect ratios annoy me as well.
Systems respond differently to the ratio information, I guess. On my other system when I'm watching old TV-series, they are 4:3, and only the commercials come wide-screen. On  the other system, if I change the aspect ratio to 4:3, the commercials come in 16:9, and after the commercials the program continues in 16:9. I hate it. The stretching also decreases the picture quality noticeably.

You have all that on your TV? We only have one photograph..................

FastBikerBoy


You have all that on your TV? We only have one photograph..................