Jules expressed precisely :
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:06:01 +0000, Adrian wrote:

robgraham gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

I've brought it home to play with but what is there different about
adverts on TV from normal transmission ?

Probably the adverts are transmitted in a different aspect ratio, and the
box is trying to shift - our TV does that, chucking up an on-screen
display to tell you, so it's quite noticable. Seems to be most prevalent
on C4.

Just to back that up a little, our (analogue) setup, hooked up to a cable
TV box, often barfs when the ads come on - the aspect ratio changes and
half the ad disappears off the right of the screen. Usually it doesn't
come back again until a half minute or so *after* normal programming has
resumed. Drives me nuts, it does...

That is odd....

We had a weird problem with the sound going off on ITV3 only and only
during the ads. The really weird part was that certain ads for some
products were not affected by the silence. Only one actual program was
affected and that wasn't completely silent, we could hear all of the
background sound, but none of the left or right.

Getting the box to rescan the channels fixed it.

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