Comments on: BBC yanks huge digital face

By: Zak

Zak — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:52:05 +0000

I didn’t find it scary at all, but absolutely sickening, like a smallpox-ridden face.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:28:05 +0000

“people are not ordered to have a tv. that is not a law.”

I know. I was just commenting on the other post which said

“digital television, which will become mandatory for the entire UK population”

“Bummer. Glad I emigrated, I wouldn’t want to be forced to have a television.”

From then on I was just being silly but don’t you think it sounds like the kind of unbelievable thing that could happen? Especially if OM got behind it.

Open-source software could soon become (or already is?) illegal in France. OM are trying to hijak this data retention bill in the EU parliament to get law enforcers to work for them in fighting ‘piracy.’

Forcing people to have televisions so they can be fed propaganda doesn’t seem like that crazy an idea. If they offered a free pornography channel I’m sure there’d be a few (hundred thousand, possibly million) people who’d be won over by the idea.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:09:16 +0000

people are not ordered to have a tv. that is not a law.

the only changes in law i’m aware of is that the changeover to all-digital is a requirement of tv stations, perhaps also radio. i’m not sure. no-one is required to own a digital box or digital-capable tv. that would be much worse than the poll tax in the 80s.

digital boxes – called “Freeview” – are available for £50 or less, which is much less than they cost where i live.

tv licences have been a requirement for decades and decades. that’s nothing new.

i hope i’m not wrong about anything, but because i watch a lot of BBC news, these are the bits of info i’ve been made aware of.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:55:17 +0000

So that’s the plan.

Get a law passed requiring everyone in the country to have a television and charge a license fee. They charge you a fine if you have a TV without a license.

Sounds like something OM would do.

Actually, sounds like something out of 1984; screens everywhere feeding propaganda to the masses.

“Illegal filesharing has decreased. Quality of life has improved.”

Stick “Under a Labour government” at the start of that and you’re sorted.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:37:47 +0000

“heighten awareness of the national switch over to digital television, which will become mandatory for the entire UK population”

Bummer. Glad I emigrated, I wouldn’t want to be forced to have a television.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:41:56 +0000

EXTERMINATE!

Now that was sofa material.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:02:07 +0000

I would like to take a look at myself

and really see if its that horrible =)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:34:52 +0000

You can say that, but my mother, who is in her 70s, was really freaked out by these ‘heads’ promos. Initially I thought she was just being a bit daft, but it seems she’s not alone. Personally I think it’s a nice bit of animation, especially the Christmas-themed ones.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:55:40 +0000

“Terrifying. Given me nightmares, so it has.”

You have to be retarded to be scared by that!!

I cannot see how anyone could get upset by a simple digital picture like that.

May look a bit odd, but “Terrifying”?????

Give me a break! All 1,300 complaints can’t be from people hiding behind the sofa!

From

The BeerLover

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:13:06 +0000

It also confused rather than scared me.

I don’t understand how it would inspire you to want digital. People want to see what they can do (which isn’t much except watch TV). A bouncing head made up of other heads is just a bit weird.

I would think somebody probably noticed while making it, but they had already gone halfway down the road and they had to keep going.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:38:00 +0000

i hated it! ugh! it made me sick and i had to turn away and try to ignore it or switch the channel over.

it was a very bad, stupid promo idea.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:16:09 +0000

First time I saw it I was a little bit confused by it. Doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I thought it used some rather clever digital animation. However, I can see why some people might not like it.