LIVE FEEDS HUGE SUCCESS!!!!!
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Bbrules4ever

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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Fuzzybear

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe someone ought to tell them the feeds don't work that simply and we get FOTH at least 40% of the time, if not more!

Mrbubble

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How many "subscribers" cancel after the free trial???

Crazydog

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was wondering if the 54,000 includes cancellations as well. But as a comparison, they probably used the same methods to get last year's figure of 50,000. And we're only halfway through this year, so surely more people will sign up.

Duncan

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe we should forward some of out FOTH 'frustration threads' to the news and let them know just how much of a success it really is.

Annie_Oakley

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
At the bottom of the news story there is a place to post comments. I just posted mine. If you have a yahoo mail account(and who doesn't) there is no hassle to post. Go tell them what you think.

Maybe it will be seen by the cbs 'boardwatchers and forwarded..

Wcv63

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All complaints are expeditiously disposed of without comment or note. I sent about 3 complaints this year and I've received a grand total of 0 responses. I don't think they read them nor do I think they care about the paying subscribers. I truly believe ASP regards the feeds as a necessary evil. A liability if you will.

Ericzj

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's my guess that the live feeds are part of the contract Arnie had to sign with Endemol. Doesn't mean he has to like it though. Without Edemol there wouldn't be any BB. And without the live feeds I would never watch the show.

Duncan

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I look at it this way.....let ASP go ahead and alienate the live feed viewers....once that is done, he will suddenly wonder where all the viewers went. Kind of like how they keep raising the excise taxes on cigarettes...eventually no one will be able to afford to smoke, and suddenly everyone will wonder where all the highway tax money went.

Draheid

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 02:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
RealOne and RealPlayer should be working thread in the 'All Things Technical' area indicate the feeds SHOULD now all be working ...

Frogichik

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 02:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Eric, I completely agree, without the live feeds I would have no interest at all!!!

Auntiemike

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 02:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
too bad the paying subscribers can't just pay "40% of their bill!

Wendo

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 02:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
RealPlayer Plus 8 working now on my Mac as well. (I've still had the feeds via RealOne on my PC.) About time, it's been what, five days? While I'm happy to see them return, the length it's taken is unacceptable for a fee service. They have a lot further to go before customers will look at Real as reliable, or should I say "REALiable".

Keiffer

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 03:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I understand that without live feeds 90% of us internet users, and messageboard posters would not be into the show. However if the 53k number is corrrect then they could get rid of every one of us and not blink. They are getting between 5-6 million people watching the shows on CBS, and I just don't think they would worry too much if they lost 50k of that.

Having said that it seems to me that they make about 1 million bucks of the live feeds. Probably enough for the prize money they give, and decorating the house each summer. Given that those expenses are covered by the feeds perhaps we should rank a bit more importance than to FOTH for such long periods of time.

Dntx4bb3

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 03:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Is anyone else sick of really just 2 feeds? It seems like we never REALLY have 4 feeds. We end up with 2 feeds the same just differant angles.
OK so I'm venting...but really getting on my nerves as much as FOTH!

Wcv63

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 03:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just an observation, but has anyone noticed that the acronym for Arnold Shapiro Productions is that of a snake?

ASP: a small venomous snake of Egypt usually held to be a cobra, Merriam Webster

I'm just sayin'....

Countrymeadow

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 03:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
yeah Dntx i get so frustrated at the feeds and the FOTH. Today they were making up a song and BB cut to foth. With the millions they are making you'd think they wouldn't mind paying royalties for those songs the HG's hum or sing.

GRRrrrrr

Twinkle

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 04:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Erk! What a puff-piece. It sounds all hunky-dory, as though we're blissfully delighted by the Real BB experience. I dunno- maybe if I hadn't been a live feeder during BB 1 and 2 I might possibly think the live feeds are pretty nifty. In addition to the gripes already posted, I'm also POed at the perpetually frozen video that I didn't experience in the past. How does that gibe with the claim in the article that "the quality of the streams are better"? (Heh. They used bad grammar.) Oh well, I can complain and growl, but as long as the audio portion of the feeds is working, I'll be sitting here wasting far too much time.

Whit4you

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well Twinky some of us are - I'm sure anyone who's not knows how to cancel their subscription eh? IF your not getting your money's worth during that 60% of the time we do get to see it. I did enjoy the singing stuff from BB I but - if I want to listen to singing - I have gig's of music on my hd. I wasn't interesting in their singing on bb I but the choices of songs they choose.. and usually I can still figure out what song they are signing BEFORE it goes to FOTH :)

Beagle

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They're singing everything from the Beatles to Elvis right now with no FOTH.

Wcv63

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spoke too soon Beagle. :)

Beagle

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yup, I sure did lol Sorry about that. But it was on live for quite a few minutes.

Wcv63

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes..I was watching too! It was fun....I liked the cheers where they each took a turn dancing. They really were acting like kids!

Beagle

Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It was a hoot, Wcv63! I loved every minute of it. Now it seems BB must have given them heck over it as they're all talking like they did. They know the Beatles songs must have cost the most LOL