It’s all in the continuity
The problem with TV is that the programs interrupt the commercials.
I don’t know who said it, but I’m sure that the feeling is there. Tonight I’ve been watching a DVD set of the miniseries “Band Of Brothers”. Without getting into the content, I have to comment on how well the whole thing hangs together without the regular interludes of the advertising industry. Scenes that are able to run from start to finish, perhaps as the director intended, without a reminder that my life is incomplete without some product or other.
A recent announcement that Philips intends to patent a technique where commercials cannot be skipped over is the true pulse of the industry. I can ignore, but I can’t skip their message. Until they win, I’ll take my brief program segments as they come, and treat an uninterrupted session (like this DVD set) as a rare slice of how things should be.
