Wednesday, December 3, 2008

FEAR Net...could suck less

FEAR Net is a solely on-demand movie channel (at least here) that specializes in horror movies.

Since it's free, the movies have commercials. I haven't watched enough to know the pattern yet. I think the HD movies are commercial free (I imagine the cable companies are thirsty for HD stuff) but the SD movie we just watched had a commercial about 20 minutes into it. And that was that.

That's not great, especially for a horror movie. Horror movies are hard to watch at home with others around, possibly trying to sleep, since they rely on the big dynamic volume changes. And you need a good atmosphere to build.

Worse though is, besides the bug in the lower right (which is bearable, if needlessly large), is that they put commercials during the movie in the lower band of the screen. Now, I sort of think this is inevitable for commercial television of any sort, since fast-forwarding and commercial removal tend to reduce the value of advertising being spearate from programming.

But it's bad during a horror movie.

And none of us are really Navy material anyway. (Well, the Barbarienne swears like a sailor but I'm hoping she'll grow out of it.)

6 comments:

  1. they put commercials during the movie in the lower band of the screen. Now, I sort of think this is inevitable for commercial television of any sort

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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  2. I can never watch this because my wife is a big scaredy cat and won't watch any horror movies at all. So I can only catch them when I am by myself which is almost never.

    Of course every once in a while I am posting on the computer and she has the remote and puts on one of those Lifetime Movies.

    THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. I'm afraid so, Knox: The lower band--they might even move the damn band around to the other borders--and product placement, I think, are going to be the way "free" programming is funded in the future.

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  4. Troop--

    FEAR Net is cool in that it shows the After Dark movies; it's kind of interesting to re-watch them and see how they fare on the small screen.

    I know what you mean about scaredy cats, tho'....

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  5. I tried to convince my wife that Sarah Jessica Parker was a succubus but she still made me watch Sex and the City.

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. Just repeat to yourself:

    "It's just a TV show. It's just a TV show...."

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