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Over modulated Charter Advertisements
29 June, 2007 13:33
I have just about had it with Charter's blatent attempt at gaining viewership to there paid advertisements they slip in between network commercial content.
Not only the companies commercials, but there clientel's TV AD's are being disposed well above the amplitude, and over the top modulation that they are streaming to my TV.
It not only sounds awful, but also builds my relationship from there commercials to the services they offer, generic, un-appeasing, and disruptive to the conducive momentum of what I am viewing or paying for.
Imagine for instance that your television had a volume meter from 0 to 10. In most cases, on most network television stations the average amplitude was that of normal a sound preference, and in this case a 5 would be sufficient to describe it. When Charter adds are included in the breaks, imagine then if the amplitude would be a factor of 10! Not only does this wake you up in the middle of the night, but it also refers the sound of Charter mumbo jumbo to corporate syndication of mumbo jumbo services.
I have just about had it. There are other options where I live, and if there technician's in control of modulation, or amptitude doesn't make a workable adjustment, I will be switching service. Fuckers, I was having a pretty damn hot dream last night that got interupted with spewage; that of the sort you would not want to receive, or pay for - for that matter.
Give me Spice for free and I will make an acception.
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Main Entry: spew
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spIwan; akin to Old High German spIwan to spit, Latin spuere, Greek ptyein
intransitive verb
1 : VOMIT
2 : to come forth in a flood or gush
3 : to ooze out as if under pressure : EXUDE
transitive verb
1 : VOMIT
2 : to send or cast forth with vigor or violence or in great quantity -- often used with out
- spew-er noun
-- Merriam-Webster