Sometimes it was painfully obvious watching Conan, as they’d constantly say something like “back after these messages”, but where his show had like 3 ad breaks in the US, here it was just one. Or 2 here and 4 there I can’t recall.
And in drama, some younger people might some times wonder while there’s so much repetition as they binge. Like not just the “previously on”, but also either weirdly zooming out, cutting, zooming back in on a setting from outside, or even a weird cut to black for 1-2s then almost a repeat of the preceding 10 seconds.
The slight optimisation back then was pausing the VHS recording during the ads, then resuming once they continue, as a sort of adblock for you when you watch it later. (As you couldn’t have any other place to watch it necessarily. Sometimes for years.)
It’s really weird rewatching MythBusters at this point, because the show is so heavily structured around ad breaks. It starts with a teaser that includes clips of moments that will happen in the show, then it has an overview of the myths, then it splits into the A myths and the B myths. Each of these gets touched on, then there’s a preview of what will happen in the next segment after the ad, then there’s the implied break, then there’s a review of what happened before the break, then there’s a new piece… it’s constantly revisiting and excerpting things to blow up about 15 minutes of content into a 50-minute show.
If only those free services could have the ads where it makes sense and not have them randomly cut the program mid-sentence 😂
Yeah :D
Tv was programmed around breaks, completely.
Sometimes it was painfully obvious watching Conan, as they’d constantly say something like “back after these messages”, but where his show had like 3 ad breaks in the US, here it was just one. Or 2 here and 4 there I can’t recall.
And in drama, some younger people might some times wonder while there’s so much repetition as they binge. Like not just the “previously on”, but also either weirdly zooming out, cutting, zooming back in on a setting from outside, or even a weird cut to black for 1-2s then almost a repeat of the preceding 10 seconds.
The slight optimisation back then was pausing the VHS recording during the ads, then resuming once they continue, as a sort of adblock for you when you watch it later. (As you couldn’t have any other place to watch it necessarily. Sometimes for years.)
It’s really weird rewatching MythBusters at this point, because the show is so heavily structured around ad breaks. It starts with a teaser that includes clips of moments that will happen in the show, then it has an overview of the myths, then it splits into the A myths and the B myths. Each of these gets touched on, then there’s a preview of what will happen in the next segment after the ad, then there’s the implied break, then there’s a review of what happened before the break, then there’s a new piece… it’s constantly revisiting and excerpting things to blow up about 15 minutes of content into a 50-minute show.
Back then it all seemed so normal…
Yeah, it did.
Futurama - S01E06 - Didn’t you have ads in the 20th century?