Shaki Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 What it'll be is a group of random people are given a selection of omega 3 containing fish products in a food standards lab somewhere and they do a blind test to find out which is the 'best'. These focus groups/test things are commonplace nowadays. I watched a news report about it and athing so I know. Anywhere you see a label claiming any superiority on food stuffs that's always what it's due to.Hmmm, I wonder what 'best' means. Tastiest? Most Omega 3 per cubic centimetre? Did they give the group a mouldy kipper, a fish finger and a shit smeared in Omega 3 to compare? Is it opinion or scientific fact? I tried looking it up but all I found was this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Hmmm, I wonder what 'best' means. Tastiest? Most Omega 3 per cubic centimetre? Did they give the group a mouldy kipper, a fish finger and a shit smeared in Omega 3 to compare? Is it opinion or scientific fact? I tried looking it up but all I found was this thread.Personally I think it is a lie perpetuated by Bird's Eye to try and justify charging 50p extra per box to gullible people. They just got Suggs on board for cheeky chappie style nostalgic selling power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Personally I think it is a lie perpetuated by Bird's Eye to try and justify charging 50p extra per box to gullible people. They just got Suggs on board for cheeky chappie style nostalgic selling power.Oh you cynic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted December 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Suggs also reinforces some sickening happyhappy modern family imagery in every advert, as "House Of Fun" usually plays whilst a family of A MILLION kids tuck in to Fish Finger buttys. That many children sounds like the polar opposite of enjoyable. The lying shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Why the fuck are adverts louder than television programs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3CR816 Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Why the fuck are adverts louder than television programs?They just sound as if they are. It's due to compression, apparently.Hit the mute! Why TV commercials are so loud, and how that may change - DailyFinanceEDIT: For no spellingz gud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 What was the best thing before sliced bread?Bread.(8 characters) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizen Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Bread.(8 characters)must have been dull times if bread was the best thing goin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 They just sound as if they are. It's due to compression, apparently.Hit the mute! Why TV commercials are so loud, and how that may change - DailyFinanceEDIT: For no spellingz gud.Okay, so I just read that article, and it doesn't say anywhere that they are the same volume.And something sounding as if it's louder...means its louder. That's what volume is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Okay, so I just read that article, and it doesn't say anywhere that they are the same volume.And something sounding as if it's louder...means its louder. That's what volume is.I think the rules say something about peak volume of the show that the advert features in. If someone is unloading a .50 cal rifle into a seals face (or Seal's face), the adverts can be really loud. If the program is a feature on the life and times of a mute librarian then the adverts will be quieter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Is it not just that the TV shows are quieter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Okay, so I just read that article, and it doesn't say anywhere that they are the same volume.And something sounding as if it's louder...means its louder. That's what volume is.Some girls look sexier than they look....that's what alcohol is. (insert an animation from the 50's of a cheesy man holding up a pint and put on a T shirt) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Some girls look sexier than they look....that's what alcohol is. (insert an animation from the 50's of a cheesy man holding up a pint and put on a T shirt)Or an old man turning a knob on a marshal with 'Volume : Making stuff loud since 1952' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Commercial conventions simply require a greater degree of volume and compression in their medium than say, a movie, which may use dynamics for effect (eery silence, horror movie suspense). Adverts are all about grabbing your attention by screaming at you as loud as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Shit chat about bread off the starboard bow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Adverts are definitely louder, used to drive me insane when I had Sky, too frequent ad breaks coupled with volume increase, nightmare. My recently acquired telly actually has a function you can turn on that keeps the volume constant. I gave up Sky and don't tend to watch much cooncil TV so haven't had much cause to use it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Commercial conventions simply require a greater degree of volume and compression in their medium than say, a movie, which may use dynamics for effect (eery silence, horror movie suspense). Adverts are all about grabbing your attention by screaming at you as loud as possible.Totally, also as movies are generally multichannel audio they have to be remixed for 2 channel stereo leading to dialogue being a lot quieter than stereo effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphas Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 In Gremlins, if you can't feed Mogwai's after midnight when can you start feeding them again? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 I remember the Stella Artois sponsored films on 4 when I would jump out my skin when the ad break came on! DAH-DAH DAH-DAH DAAAAAAAH! Now I know why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3CR816 Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Okay, so I just read that article, and it doesn't say anywhere that they are the same volume.And something sounding as if it's louder...means its louder. That's what volume is.Didn't it say that they use more mid-range frequencies or something? I don't know. I'm bad at science. I thought Back to the Future was a documentary. Here's the quote I was talking about:"And in addition to making their commercials as loud as the FCC lets them, marketers also use various technological tricks to make them sound even louder than they are, like packing more sound energy into midrange frequencies, the ones that the human ear is most sensitive to."Having said that some writer somewhere could be snickering and saying "sound energy...guffaw! These chumps will believe anything!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsinho Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 It's a combination of both volume uppage and frequency range they use. Both teams win. The aim being to grab you're attention even if the natural reaction to that is to reach for the mute button on the remote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Another volume related one after trip to Cineworld last week - why is the cinema at an insane volume these days? Is this to counter-act the array of cunts yapping, fucking about with mobile phones and rustling a bin bags worth of popcorn for the entire film? It's not required in a cinema containing 8 folk... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 What I'm wondering:What'choo talkin' bout, Willis? No, really, I've no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 What I'm wondering:What'choo talkin' bout, Willis? No, really, I've no idea.Your posts are on average becoming less and less funny. If you had bothered to watch the programme, you would know what Willis was talking about. You would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TelecasterSam Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 In Gremlins, if you can't feed Mogwai's after midnight when can you start feeding them again?my guess would be sunrise !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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