The Evils of Time-Compression (Sped-up Shows)

Evil, Unfair, Destruction of Work and We are paying them to do it

 

AND...I've seen - with increasing frequency - promos actually blocking the screen from a critical piece of information in a show - I'm foolishly actually attempting to watch and enjoy

Something about killing the Golden Goose...maybe dead already, I suspect...

 

Or, they are just milking a slowly-dying format ("live" TV) until the day comes when everything is on-demand, and a la carte, for all it's worth.

 

Unfortunately, the Seinfeld example in post #1 is no longer viewable.

 

And in a related development, has anyone noticed that a 5 lb bag of sugar is only 4 lbs now?

 

Did you work on the 80's Chipmunk Adventure movie? Man I thought that was classic! Full of suspense and intrigue and stuff. (And animated in Korea, right?)

 

Generally credits on these shows get the biggest axe. Sped up like 100x while being split screen with a promo for whatever show is next. Haven't watched television in almost 20 years. Don't miss it one bit. (Well, maybe Cartoon Network when it first came out and was bat$h*t crazy.)

 

No, I did not work on any of the Chipmunks movies, though many years later I worked on some of the later 1990s DIC animated shows, where the characters look completely different from the Ruby-Spears years or the original 1960s CBS show.

 

Does anyone else see the irony of complaining about TV shows getting sped up to put more commercials in.....and people watching the Super Bowl for the commercials instead of the game? They should be happy that they get to see more loud, compressed commercials, and less Hee-Haw.

 

You've probably been experiencing it for years with sports programming, and not even realized it. I think the broadcasters have really suppressed talk about it. Ever wonder why the end of an inning, quarter, etc., etc. so often happen to coincide with the regular commercial break timing of other shows? Guess why. Golf is probably as bad at it as any sport, and why so many player's shots are not shown real time, and why most networks don't even bother commenting on the fact that the shot was played earlier. This year's Masters on the weekend network showing was awful (worse than it's ever been).

 

OT but relates to constant whacking of real content in broadcast\cable TV.
DIY\Fix-It shows.
I haven't watched them since This Old House went sideways 20+ years ago, but I did an experiment on an HGTV show.
Timed the actual original, non-repeated content, minus ads in "30" minute show.
13-14 minutes.
Show start,preview, content, recap, ad, recap, content, recap, ad, recap, content, recap, ad, recap,content, recap, ad, review. Show's over.

The only one I watch is Wheeler Dealers, I can blast through an hour episode in 30 mins easy.

A question for those in the know, a ton of cable channel ads are exclusively for content on that channel not paying vendors.
Do they derive their income solely from cable contracts?

 

I didn't think time-compression was still a thing. I knew of a Star Wars laserdisc in the '80s that was both pan-and-scan and time compressed!

 

In that case, which was the very first release on home video in 1982, it was done to fit a 121 minute film on a disc that could only hold two hours. It's been a while since I watched that particular disc, but I believe all they did was trim some of the scene transitions.

 

I believe it was 119 minutes, so I assumed time-compression had been applied.

 

I did some digging around, and it looks like it was sped up by as much as 3%.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases