Bbrules4ever | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:02 pm     Click here |
Fuzzybear | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:09 pm     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     How many "subscribers" cancel after the free trial??? |
Crazydog | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:19 pm     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     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     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     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     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     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     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     Eric, I completely agree, without the live feeds I would have no interest at all!!! |
Auntiemike | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 02:09 pm     too bad the paying subscribers can't just pay "40% of their bill! |
Wendo | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 02:17 pm     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     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     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     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     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     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     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     They're singing everything from the Beatles to Elvis right now with no FOTH.
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Wcv63 | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:22 pm     Spoke too soon Beagle. |
Beagle | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:23 pm     Yup, I sure did lol Sorry about that. But it was on live for quite a few minutes.
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Wcv63 | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:26 pm     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     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
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