Comments on: Football Score Bar Headers Across My T.V. Screen http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/football-score-bar-headers-across-my-tv-screen/563/ Where the world comes to complain. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:30:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: tc3 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/football-score-bar-headers-across-my-tv-screen/563/#comment-1401 tc3 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:13:13 +0000 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/football-score-bar-headers-across-my-tv-screen/563/#comment-1401 I'm not trying to beat this to death, but I was watching a game today and my 6 year old daughter walks in the room and says, "Are they going to take that thing off the top of the screen? It's running across the guy's faces." That's my girl. For the record, ESPN and ABC seem to be the worst offenders. Their top scorebar headers cut off a good 10% of the top of the screen. I’m not trying to beat this to death, but I was watching a game today and my 6 year old daughter walks in the room and says, “Are they going to take that thing off the top of the screen? It’s running across the guy’s faces.”

That’s my girl.

For the record, ESPN and ABC seem to be the worst offenders. Their top scorebar headers cut off a good 10% of the top of the screen.

]]> By: tc3 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/football-score-bar-headers-across-my-tv-screen/563/#comment-1359 tc3 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:32:18 +0000 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/football-score-bar-headers-across-my-tv-screen/563/#comment-1359 I like the bar too, but not across the top of the screen. The bar at the bottom works perfectly fine and doesn't screw up my viewing. I get just as much info at the bottom of the screen and there is much less to see at the bottom than the top of the screen. It's much less annoying to have the score bar block the feet of the players or the near sideline which I can't see anyway because the camera angle forces one team to always block it, than it is to have the bar cut across the heads of the players and action that can occur on the far sideline which is unobstructed in the natural camera viewing angle of a game. I like the bar too, but not across the top of the screen. The bar at the bottom works perfectly fine and doesn’t screw up my viewing.

I get just as much info at the bottom of the screen and there is much less to see at the bottom than the top of the screen. It’s much less annoying to have the score bar block the feet of the players or the near sideline which I can’t see anyway because the camera angle forces one team to always block it, than it is to have the bar cut across the heads of the players and action that can occur on the far sideline which is unobstructed in the natural camera viewing angle of a game.

]]> By: dw17 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/football-score-bar-headers-across-my-tv-screen/563/#comment-1141 dw17 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:41:43 +0000 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/football-score-bar-headers-across-my-tv-screen/563/#comment-1141 I like the "bar" Just like I am glad they don't "hide" the scoreboard when I am at the game. It is always there so I can know the score when I turn on the broadcast, or if I forget. I'm stupid. And the time remaining, that is good to know just like I like to see it when I am at the game in person. I like the “bar”

Just like I am glad they don’t “hide” the scoreboard when I am at the game. It is always there so I can know the score when I turn on the broadcast, or if I forget. I’m stupid. And the time remaining, that is good to know just like I like to see it when I am at the game in person.

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