On May 5, 12:24 pm, LRod wrote:

All of the stations are doing those now. It's the bane of modern TV
watching. Where it really annoys me is when the original programming
has its own chyron with either subtitling or some other descriptive
material,. fairly important to the content, and it gets covered up in
reruns by an invitation to watch next Tuesday's something or other.

Man oh man, that's a pet peeve of mine. And something I saw starting
last year was the animated ads featuring all the people in a cast that
walk on the screen (all the way across) and pose while another graphic
swims around on the right finally forming a time and a date for that
show's cast to look at.

And I have no patience for the shows with commercials. If I can't see
it without interrruption, 99% of the time I won't watch it. The shows
aren't good enough to keep my attention. I will literally wander off
during commercial and come back after the show is over. No, I don't
have ADD, the shows just aren't good enough to keep my attention.

It started with the VCR, and auto-skip on commercials. I had been FF
through commercials for years, doing it manually, but the auto-skip
just made it too easy. And if a show doesn't grab me at the opening,
it's gone. I have no idea how anyone sits down to "watch" as show as
it is being broadcast anymore if it has commercials.

I have the finger on FF all the time on recorded shows, too. Much
better use of time, and much less aggravating when viewing TV.

Robert