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Do you watch any sports on TV? The amount of ads packed into an NBA basketball game on TV is startling and exhausting: - each player's jersey - arena wall
by Tempest1981 3y ago
Do you watch any sports on TV?
The amount of ads packed into an NBA basketball game on TV is startling and exhausting:
- each player's jersey
- arena walls
- courtside walls (tv screens)
- projected onto the court floor (updated each minute)
- on the side and top of the backboard
- most TV graphics ("Taco Bell play of the game")
- split-screen ads during free-throws
- traditional commercials during time-outs
- walthamstow 3y agoAdvertising isn't quite as pervasive on UK TV sports coverage but the one and only I ever see or hear and advert in my life is when I'm watching football on Sky Sports. It's unavoidable.
- mikepurvis 3y agoMy mind immediately went to the feasibility of using an AI artist to remove most or all of this in real time. Could be an interesting shift in terms of the "live" experience being significantly worse/degraded relative to the broadcast version with all that stuff painted out.
- jareklupinski 3y ago- each player's jersey i noticed some pretty no-name companies on jerseys recently makes me wonder how much it actually costs to get them to wear like a pin with my face on it for a few games "did you see me at the knicks game last night? i was everywhere!"
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoThat is fucking egregious even by the absolute trip-hazard-in-hell standards of television, holy shit. I have no idea why anyone consumes anything on TV anymore.