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Really???!!!
Now that's just weird. Which DVD was it, out of curiosity?
(Or is this just an early April Fool?)
i was recently viewing a DVD from Network which had the usual blank spaces where the adverts would have been. Since I wanted to look again at a scene I reversed the DVD to the point where the adverts would have appeared and to my astonishment the adverts were all there but naturally running in reverse.
I found that whilst I could not make the adverts appear whilst the DVD was running forward, if I reversed the DVD the adverts would appear and provided you stopped the DVD just before the start of the first advert you could run them forward in the normal way.
Does this mean that in many cases the adverts are NOT removed but the DVD is just encoded in some way to prevent them appearing. Just curious. Perhaps some of our technical boffins may be able to come up with the answer.
Really???!!!
Now that's just weird. Which DVD was it, out of curiosity?
(Or is this just an early April Fool?)
DVDs can be coded to play in a particular order of content and skipping portions of content is entirely possible. This, in fact, is how many DVD Easter Eggs are hidden from menus.
That said, I can't imagine why Network would want to 'hide' adverts or why any paying advertisers would see this as value for money.
Are the adverts new or do they appear to be the original broadcast ads shown at the time the show was originally aired?
Have you checked through the menus to see if there is a function to enable/disable the ads in the same way you'd enable an audio commentary?
You could have a DVD rarity there Johno.
Last edited by GoggleboxUK; 09-11-10 at 05:28 PM.
The DVD was Sunday Night at the London Palladium. I cannot see anything in the menus which would affect the issue. The adverts are most certainly old and in fact because of this were quite iteresting to look at.
I don't think my set will be unique and I imagine this 'error' will appear on them all.
It is something which could be on many DVDs since how often does one rewind a DVD just after the commercial break.
I had thought of writing to Network just to see what they had to say!
My copy of this arrived today so will check it!
It's on Disc 2 just after Freddie and the Dreamers.
There's another thread with details of this strange anomaly - look under DVD releases: under "Sunday Night At the London Palladium" topic. I have a copy of this, and there are definitely ads in at least one of the breaks.
Alistair
In two breaks, also after Beat the Clock in the 1964 episode. In the first break we have Fairy Liquid and Pink Stamps, in the second break we have Jim Clark talking about the BSM and also the St Bruno ad. Same thing for both, they are invisible unless you rewind the picture.
Wowsers.... That sounds like a perfick experience of the past......Originally Posted by didi-5
I have always maintained that to truly experience The Prisoner you should have the advert breaks so you could watch the bicycle assembly.......... and also have some downtime to figure about wtf had just happened in that last 15 minute segment.....
......................not to mention only watching one episode a week..........
It sounds like network have formatted an old *complete video* someone has made of a broadcast doesn't it.............
Normal DVD production is surely from the digital file well back from any broadcaster. If it is TV studio based or a recorded live show the file is run and the breaks are added at transmission to their own programme.
Isn't this show from the one night that the whole of ITV's output including the ads was recorded? Fascinating to see them on the Network release though. But then I'm easily pleased and archive adverts hit the spot!
LOL Other ads included on this are Body Mist deodorant and Brolac Paints - can't think of anymore at the moment...
Channel 4's TV HEAVEN strand always used to show some vintage ads contemporary to that week's choice of year; great fun!
(Funny to think that T.V. Heaven is now itself part of that whole nostalgia thing...)
Smudge
Last edited by smudge; 31-12-10 at 01:20 PM.
I remember watching that at the NFT - got a bit bored when Tony Hancock came round for the third time
Yes this is the 'easter egg' on this DVD, i've contacted network (including speaking on the phone) and the only was to see the adverts is to rewind and watch, its annoying as i too like to see a programme wiht its adverts in the right place.
I'm almost ashamed to say that I have been sad enough to check some other Network DVDs in the hope that it might have happened more than once. That's bad, isn't it?
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