Obama's infomercial 10/29/2008

it wasn't in HD, no.

 

I've seen a bunch of other Obama ads in HD. Interesting that this one was not.

 

It was the same here, window-boxed, up-converted on both stations I checked. My guess is that it was shipped to the stations as letterboxed 4:3.

Pretty weird.

 

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How can he be for change if he clings to his 4s and 3s?

 

Maybe he's just bitter about HD.

 

Clearly, you're a ratio-ist.

 

4:3 is a more even distribution. No plumbers were affected by this choice

 

He spent millions to buy the time from the networks to broadcast it -- I'm not sure how much money went into the production. (I didn't even watch. I'll wait to see excerpts on "The Daily Show" tonight. )

 

It seemed to be very professionally done and surprizingly enough it was not boring.

 

Thank you both for that. Bad night, so just...thanks

 

Wasn't boring, but the content was nothing new, either. I was hoping he would introduce us to "Moe the Electrician".

 

I didn't get it.

 

This was even more disappointing than the Segway. I thought the infomercial was going to introduce us to the next generation of ginsu knives.

 

With 4:3 he's just spreading the wealth around

 

I thought he wanted to bring the top and bottom closer together. Surely 16x9 represents this better.

 

I was expecting to see this guy

 

It did very well in the ratings. 33.5 viewers, not only the top watched show, it outperformed the regularly scheduled shows it replaced as well.

 

When it's airing on multiple networks at the same time, and most of the regular programming is preempted, it's not hard to garner those kinds of ratings. In fact, that's actually much lower than the numbers that watched the debates.

 

Most of the regular programming wasn't preempted, unless you have an antenna and get 4 or 5 channels.

It outperformed the regularly scheduled shows that it replaced. This means that even people who normally watch a show that wasn't preempted elected to tune into the Obama broadcast instead. It wasn't a forced audience as you imply.