TV progs with a commentary.

[jonny jeez]

Is it just me who finds these new fangled superfluous commentaries an annoying intrusion on tv programmes?
To clarify, tonight I came upon a TV prog. featuring Bear Grylls the adventurer chappie. Grylls appeared on screen getting out of a canoe, setting his paddle down on the canoe and then walking up the stony beach. At this point the announcer told us that Grylls had set down his paddle and was walking up the beach. Is this commentary provided to assist the visually impaired or what? I had heard a similar commentary recently but can't remember which tv prog it was on.
Is there anyway of muting this superfluous commentary while retaining the normal soundtrack?

Thanks very much.

I have never noticed this but will now be obsessed with it in everything I watch.

Damn!

 

[jonny jeez]

That's cracked it, thank you!
Who'd have thunk it? AD as an abbreviation for Superfluous Commentary.
Thanks also to ColinJ who came in just 12 minutes later.

Hahahahahaha.

Is this serious!!

 

[numbnuts]

Bear Grylls ?? is this another one of those cooking programs I haven't got TV

 

[Supersuperleeds]

• too many ads; Record the programmes and skip the ads
• ads at higher volume than feature shows; Record the programmes and skip the ads
• shows never starting on time; Record the programmes - modern devices should start and finish recordings to suit
• shows catering to the lowest common denominator, i.e. 'dumbing down'; Don't record those!
• far too many so-called 'reality' shows (that are anything but real).Don't record those!

Showing your age there grandad, no-one records anymore, just watch the streams online. (I know someone must have recorded it to put the stream up!)

 

[ColinJ]

Showing your age there grandad, no-one records anymore, just watch the streams online. (I know someone must have recorded it to put the stream up!)

I was just thinking 'Who are you calling granddad, I'm too young to be a granddad' but then I realised that I am not! I have friends who became grandparents over 10 years younger than my age! Where does the time go ...

It would seem a bit daft to continue with broadcast TV and radio once nearly everyone has high speed broadband, but there are always going to be a few who are too far from a telephone exchange to get a connection fast enough to stream HD. (Maybe they could get BB via satellite?)

 

[snorri]

Bear Grylls ?? is this another one of those cooking programs I haven't got TV

Might have been, I only saw a little of it, just enough to describe my problem

Hahahahahaha.
Is this serious!!

Not altogether, but when you don't have the terminology right it makes problem resolution more difficult.
Never mind, with the back-up of the CycleChat team....normal service was soon restored..

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm always amazed at how quickly any threads about TV attracts those who state "I haven't got a TV" - well no need to contribute. Carry on not having a TV. No need to tell the rest of us. I do have a TV and still couldn't answer the query.

Almost as bad as the number of people who feel compelled to tell you they don't like football in a football thread.

 

[jonny jeez]

I'm always amazed at how quickly any threads about TV attracts those who state "I haven't got a TV" - well no need to contribute. Carry on not having a TV. No need to tell the rest of us. I do have a TV and still couldn't answer the query.

Almost as bad as the number of people who feel compelled to tell you they don't like football in a football thread.

I find the same reaction when you mention MacDonalds.

Apparantley, No one ever goes there, I'm amazed that they can stay in business and wonder what all the people queuing up at the counter must be doing.

 

[User32269]

Might have been, I only saw a little of it, just enough to describe my problem


Not altogether, but when you don't have the terminology right it makes problem resolution more difficult.
Never mind, with the back-up of the CycleChat team....normal service was soon restored..

Like the A Team but with better defined calf muscles.

 

[marknotgeorge]

I find the same reaction when you mention MacDonalds.

Apparantley, No one ever goes there, I'm amazed that they can stay in business and wonder what all the people queuing up at the counter must be doing.

The worst are those people who think that telling you they once worked there validates their anti-McD sneering. If it was such a hole when you were working there, you clearly weren't doing your job properly!

 

[tyred]

Problem solved

 

[wheresthetorch]

Almost as bad as the number of people who feel compelled to tell you they don't like football in a football thread.

I don't like football.

 

[summerdays]

Just occasionally I've found the AD thing useful, when it's been accidentally switched on and you suddenly get information that you might have missed in a complicated plot. Most of the time I just try to work out how to switch it back off again!

 

[EltonFrog]

I don't like football.

Me neither, or cricket and rugby. I reserve the right to tell anyone I damn well please.

 

[snorri]

Problem solved

No no, tyred, I need a wee break from CC now and again