Fuddyduddy | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:49 am     Iluvbb - I have fired an email to Arnie... My problem may even be worse than yours! Had to download the beta version for my Mac OS X and it is not that great. Lots of things don't work yet. But the promo deal is driving me nuts!!! |
Sanfranjoshfan | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:51 am     Thanks for the address Ryn, I just sent them this: The ads I get on the Big Brother live feeds (for which I already PAID the subscription fee!) are too LOUD and very annoying! There is no reason for these ads....the commercial is an old, out of date ad for the premiere episode. Anyone that has paid for the live feeds (like me) already knows that the show is airing. We live feed subscribers are the BIGGEST fan of Big Brother....you don't need to convince us that we should watch the show. I don't understand why you go out of your way to alienate us. Please stop these loud, irritating, time wasting commercials....preaching to the converted is a waste of my time and it uses bandwidth that YOU are paying for. Daniel Pittman (a customer that is very irritated with CBS ) |
Ryn | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:01 am     very cool Sanfran hope they see it (I left CBS a feedback - like THAT will do any good). |
Verdana | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:03 am     ...the promo deal, that awful music playing over and over, only two cameras and the FOTH 24/7. What a rip, baby. Honey it sounds like to me that someone has their head up their posterior orifice. I agree with all of you and I've written to that wonder,Arnold Shapiro. He'll probably take my remarks with a grain of salt but at least I've tried. |
Aremid | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:22 am     I sent an email. I complained about the commercials and the lack of 4 individual feeds. I also told them that without the feeds, I doubt I'd be as interested in the show. I hope somebody reads these emails we're sending and realizes the commercials were a dumb idea. |
Lurknomore | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:26 am     OMG you guys...you seem to have missed the best part of this--The Arnold Shapiro site. Damn I almost spewed my coffee all over the damn computer and monitor. First the embossed background of him (I think holding an award) basically looks like a phallic symbol. If that wasn't worth the price of admission, there is all the SADD awards and impression of helping American youth when he is fill the BB house sleazoids. This was TOO GOOD! |
Seamonkey | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:27 am     This is what I sent: 1. More censorship. Conversations are arbitrarily censored and I don't mean the endless Tonya bringing up her divorce (which she now does because she KNOWS the feeds will cut out), but just strategy convos.. what's with that? 2. Duplicate streams.. What is advertised is FOUR feeds.. one would assume that would mean four DIFFERENT feeds. 3. Canned footage.. A feed will show Eric and Lisa sleeping when clearly Eric and Lisa are elsewhere in the house and awake. Again.. the feeds are advertised as LIVE. ] And now they are bombarding people with commercials on the feeds.. advertising to people who are already PAYING for what they are advertising and some people report that they get timeouts after the commercial runs, reload and they get the commercial again. (I also complained about Josh while I was at it) |
Lurknomore | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:29 am     Ok now I'm just amusing the heck out of myself here. Looking again at the phallic symbol Arnold Shapiro background it came to me... ROFLMAO  |
Crossfire | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:30 am     SADD as in Students against drunk driving?
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Iceprincess | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:31 am     this is what I sent. I thought maybe a more diplomatic approach. To whom it may concern, As an avid fan of the Big Brother series and live feed subscriber I am disappointed in this years offering of the Live Feeds. First off, I understand the legal aspects of such a production and having to go to the "Front of the House" for certain issues as well as keeping some of the footage for the show. However, I find it unnecessary to include commercials for the show during the feeds in which I purchased. I urge you to rethink this idea of airing commericals for the show during live feeds. I enjoy the feeds and wish not to have to cancel them due to constant advertising. Second, I wish to address the choice of live feeds. While the advertisments boast "4 FEEDS" we get at best 2 feeds showing the same thing with different angles. While this may be an appropriate marketing idea, this is not a condusive way to keep customers who, like me, are expecting 4 different feeds. While Big Brother is by far my favorite show on TV during the summer and gives me many hours of enjoyment during the Live Feeds, I may be forced to cancel my subscription and turn off my TV, as well as encouraging others to do the same if these problems are not addressed. |
Lurknomore | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:35 am     Guys I think you may all be missing the point. I honestly believe my pal Arnie wants the live feeds gone. I think he is the worst person to write to about this. He'll be thrilled he is turning us away. If you have a desire to write I'd aim for Real (they may not control content but they are the ones that have the biggest vested interest in keeping viewers) and CBS programming who own Arnie. |
Lawyerman | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:40 am     I know that there are some online petition sites that exist. You write up some type of petition or complaint and people who go to these sites can send an email to the relevant party with just a few clicks. I'm currently at work so I can't do it at the moment, but perhaps someone should look into this. |
Iceprincess | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:44 am     If someone wants to do a petition here is a site. I don't know how it works. I would be more then happy to set it up with some help with wording and such. http://www.gopetition.com |
Zeyna | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:52 am     Lurk is right. Complaining about the live feeds to AS means nothing, it's just an excuse to get rid of them altogether. |
Peachie | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 12:42 pm     If he gets rid of the live feeds then he wont have many viewers for the show cause the show makes no sense if you dont get the live feeds. There is definitely more FOTH this year and we are missing quite alot, I believe he keeps them up cause he knows alot of people will complain but still continue to pay for the live feeds and watch what he wants to show us on on said live feeds. I know I am not the only one that feels that the FOTH is shown alot more this year. |
Robbien | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 01:02 pm     A friend was very upset about this and just called Real to cancel the live feeds. The reason he gave was all the foths and the commercials. RealOne's answer was to give him free feeds till the end of August. He declined. |
Wcv63 | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 01:08 pm     As they type who needs to find the silver lining in every cloud, all I've got to say is that if the live feeds are discontinued, or continued in this same manner, I'd get my life back. I would have absolutely no desire to watch the show without the live feed tie-in. |
Bigd | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 01:21 pm     I have gone to the feeds 4 times in the last hour (from the favorites I had set up in my browser) and each time I have gone straight to the feeds minus the commercials - did they stop the awful commercials? |
Shadowkat | Monday, July 22, 2002 - 01:33 pm     Bigd, I haven't gotten any commercials today either, and I've been on all 4 feeds. Maybe Arnie listened to us!! |