Good Vibes ad during the Oscars
General February 24th, 2008
I thought it was funny that the local HiFi store (Good Vibes) bought scrolling banner ad space at the bottom of tonight’s Academy Awards (Oscars.) The GV spot came on after the commercial breaks, and reminded/alerted people that if they weren’t watching tonight’s program in HD, they should call Good Vibes to get setup with HD channels with no monthly fee (they do satellite and OTA installations.)
The ironic part is WICD apparently does not have HD scrolling text overlay support, so during the ad they down sampled the Oscars to SD. So even if I was watching it in HD, I wasn’t during the commercial/overlay where they told me I should be watching it in HD.
Oops.
Note the letterboxing and SD quality during the ad. Yeah, thanks guys. I *was* watching it in HD before your ad came on.
(BTW, best dress yet? Rene Zellweger.)
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No kidding…talk about lame. My vote goes to Jennifer.
No doubt; she was a great kick off for the night. But I wasn’t really looking at her dress.