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Default patronising digital advert

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:06:19 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:25:42 +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:
Oh, and I wouldn't rely on young relatives to be any more clued up than
the elderly.


In fact a lot of elderly parents got a Freeview digital converter box
a long time before their younger relatives.

And any comments on that FOX commercial for the digital transition
featuring an old lady?

Frame from video only, since video is currently not available due to
copyright claim --

http://www.engadgethd.COM/2008/11/06/digital-tv-transition-spoof-video-is-both-informative-and-hilari/


I saw it before it was pulled. It is both humorous and informative.
The humour outweighs any hint of patronisation.


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