Comments on: Watching TV

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:31:45 +0000

If you look at Channel 4 at the moment during their ad breaks, you will see quick flashes of the Big Brother ‘eye’ logo. And that only shows on the screen for about a second at a time.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 11 May 2006 11:31:07 +0000

In this case, the word you are looking for is patent. It's all explained here

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 May 2006 09:53:30 +0000

It could be a patent or a copyright, I’m not entirely sure, and the advertising would not be anything like subliminal, because the actual ad would be like, 10 seconds long, it would only become short and properly visible when being fast-forwarded. Possibly. If someone were to invent it.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 11 May 2006 08:27:57 +0000

Yes, Gert, subliminal advertising is illegal. However, subliminal counts as one or two frames, when TV/Film displays at roughly 30-40 frames per second. A one-second ad is plenty long enough to register on the conscious mind, which would be fine and legal, and not subliminal at all.

By: Gert

Gert — Thu, 11 May 2006 07:26:07 +0000

Sublimal advertising is against the law

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 10 May 2006 17:53:59 +0000

I would say that the amount of TV I watch live is only about 5% at most. Everything else if off the TiVo.

Maybe user of Sky+ do watch fewer recorded programmes, because Sky+ is less functionally rich than a TiVo. Or perhaps Sky+ users, as a group, are less technologically clued-up, and as such don’t tend to use the functionality of their PVR to its full extent.

By: bagpuss

bagpuss — Wed, 10 May 2006 14:58:36 +0000

Does that make me an even smaller monirity.80-90% of what I watch is recored, and I don’t even have Tivo or Sky+. (And the reason I record it is so I can fast forward through the ads, despite still beong stuck in the dark ages with a video recorder…)