Trivial Annoyance ... Hitting the post button, then the back button, and then the forward button, and then the post reply button, again ...  and once more the back button ... Lastly, not knowing what to expect just happened to your post attempt. I need a MB 101 class. Or something. Is it my age, or was it so much easier back in the day?

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The game yesterday between the Colts and the Texans featured some of the most maddeningly verbose and useless color commentary I can ever remember. Word after meaningless word. Yesterday was the worst ever. It's like they were being paid by the word. "You can't have penalties like that." No [BLEEP], Sherlock. Penalties are bad. Shut up!

If the color commentators cannot shut up, I would like to have the ability to selectively shut them up. If I could just tell my TV, I don't want to hear Booger McFarland and Jason Witten, but I would still like to hear the crowd noise and the play by play, I would pay extra for that. I know the technology exists that would enable such a wonderful feature. Just give us a menu, "Here are the people who are going to be talking. Check the boxes of the ones you want to silence."

So, here's hoping that Comcast and the NFL, together, can create a feature that one can subscribe to for $10 a month, and have it shut up Booger McFarland or Troy Aikman or any of the other maddeningly verbose commentators with their meaningless comments.

Yes, I know I can mute the whole thing, but what would be even better is if I could mute just parts of it. I would pay extra for that.

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The game yesterday between the Colts and the Texans featured some of the most maddeningly verbose and useless color commentary I can ever remember.  ... 

So, here's hoping that Comcast and the NFL, together, can create a feature that one can subscribe to for $10 a month, and have it shut up Booger McFarland or Troy Aikman or any of the other maddeningly verbose commentators with their meaningless comments.  

Yes, I know I can mute the whole thing, but what would be even better is if I could mute just parts of it.  I would pay extra for that.

I like this idea.

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The game yesterday between the Colts and the Texans featured some of the most maddeningly verbose and useless color commentary I can ever remember.   Word after meaningless word.   Yesterday was the worst ever.  It's like they were being paid by the word.  "You can't have penalties like that."   No [BLEEP], Sherlock.   Penalties are bad.   Shut up!  

If the color commentators cannot shut up, I would like to have the ability to selectively shut them up.   If I could just tell my TV, I don't want to hear Booger McFarland and Jason Witten, but I would still like to hear the crowd noise and the play by play, I would pay extra for that.   I know the technology exists that would enable such a wonderful feature.   Just give us a menu, "Here are the people who are going to be talking.  Check the boxes of the ones you want to silence."  

So, here's hoping that Comcast and the NFL, together, can create a feature that one can subscribe to for $10 a month, and have it shut up Booger McFarland or Troy Aikman or any of the other maddeningly verbose commentators with their meaningless comments.  

Yes, I know I can mute the whole thing, but what would be even better is if I could mute just parts of it.  I would pay extra for that.

That actually happened by virtue of technical difficulty during a Jags game some years back. The audio from the announcers booth disappeared but the audio from the stadium did not. It was fantastic and I've since said the same thing as you, that I'd pay extra to have the announcers muted. When this happened, it lasted about five minutes. The audio was then repaired and the announcers apologized for inconvenience.  I shouted "No, put it back!!"

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When you're watching tv and it goes to a commercial and the volume is suddenly 10X louder. I use the mute button often when watching something live because of this.

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When you're watching tv and it goes to a commercial and the volume is suddenly 10X louder.  I use the mute button often when watching something live because of this.

I do the same.

Most TVs now have a volume stabilizer feature that normalizes/limits the peak decibel level. Check to see if yours might have one that you can activate. Sometimes it's buried in the audio options in the menu. It doesn't totally fix it, but it helps.

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When you're watching tv and it goes to a commercial and the volume is suddenly 10X louder.  I use the mute button often when watching something live because of this.

I do the same.

Most TVs now have a volume stabilizer feature that normalizes/limits the peak decibel level. Check to see if yours might have one that you can activate. Sometimes it's buried in the audio options in the menu. It doesn't totally fix it, but it helps.

Yes I've heard of this just haven't gotten around to checking.  I actually enjoy muting the commercials anyways.  Just curious what is going through advertiser's heads?  Do they think screaming at me will make me purchase their product or something?

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The game yesterday between the Colts and the Texans featured some of the most maddeningly verbose and useless color commentary I can ever remember.   Word after meaningless word.   Yesterday was the worst ever.  It's like they were being paid by the word.  "You can't have penalties like that."   No [BLEEP], Sherlock.   Penalties are bad.   Shut up!  

If the color commentators cannot shut up, I would like to have the ability to selectively shut them up.   If I could just tell my TV, I don't want to hear Booger McFarland and Jason Witten, but I would still like to hear the crowd noise and the play by play, I would pay extra for that.   I know the technology exists that would enable such a wonderful feature.   Just give us a menu, "Here are the people who are going to be talking.  Check the boxes of the ones you want to silence."  

So, here's hoping that Comcast and the NFL, together, can create a feature that one can subscribe to for $10 a month, and have it shut up Booger McFarland or Troy Aikman or any of the other maddeningly verbose commentators with their meaningless comments.  

Yes, I know I can mute the whole thing, but what would be even better is if I could mute just parts of it.  I would pay extra for that.

So, I've been thinking, and I think it's completely feasible.   

One option would be for the TV network to transmit the sound in separate layers that overlap each other, with each layer having an identifying code.  The crowd would be one layer, and each announcer would be a separate layer.  That way, any layer or layers could be switched off by the user while retaining the other layers.   So the user can say, I want to hear everything except Troy Aikman.  And when Troy Aikman is talking, then instead of hearing him, you hear everything else.  Have Troy Aikman's microphone transmit his voice with an identifying code attached to it, that allows downstream technology to either allow his voice or eliminate it.  

If the TV networks don't want to do that, the TV manufacturers could use voice recognition technology, coupled with a split-second delay for processing, and eliminate one or more of the voices.  Simply write code that says, if you recognize this voice, delete that particular voice and nothing else.  

And if the TV networks don't want to do it, then a headphone manufacturer could do it.  Just like the TV manufacturer could, use voice-recognition software and eliminate a particular voice from the sound.  

How far "upstream" this technology is implemented depends of course on how much money there is to be made on it.   The farther downstream it is, the harder it is.  The easiest thing would be for the networks to do it.  

Of course the ironic thing is, the more obnoxious and tiresome the announcers get, the more money could be made selling a system to switch them off.

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Of course the ironic thing is, the more obnoxious and tiresome the announcers get, the more money could be made selling a system to switch them off.

Hey, every profitable solution must first have a problem.

Fall 2021: "Hello football fans and welcome to today's broadcast of our game between the Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots. Along side color commentators Richard Simmons and Fran Drescher, I'm Ryan "The Hacker" Green."

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

Going through the drive through window, nobody else is in line, and still having to wait for your order.

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Seeing the taco bell Grande burrito for dollar ads all over tv then getting to the taco bell near you and finding they are 1.60 there. What. Yea yea I know each store owned individually but c'mon man. Oh btw the beef one sux too.

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Going through the drive through window, nobody else is in line, and still having to wait for your order.

And pull forward to boot.

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Taco Bell has become so pathetic. I haven't eaten any of their garbage in a couple of years. Not like it was ever a gastronomic phenomenon, but their low level of quality impossibly found a way to go lower.

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Yes, I know I can mute the whole thing, but what would be even better is if I could mute just parts of it.  I would pay extra for that.

The technology to do that with a TV...……………..quite valuable.

The technology to do so with a woman...……………….priceless.

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When you get into the endzone, act like you've been there before.

Whoever the hell has been coming up with chevrolet's ad campaigns over the past two years.
So terrible. I feel bad for anyone that comes away from those wanting a chevrolet.

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Whoever the hell has been coming up with chevrolet's ad campaigns over the past two years.
So terrible. I feel bad for anyone that comes away from those wanting a chevrolet.

Are we talking about the sheets over the vehicles or the “I’m a little bit country/rock n roll’ ones.  I find both to be annoying.

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Whoever the hell has been coming up with chevrolet's ad campaigns over the past two years.
So terrible. I feel bad for anyone that comes away from those wanting a chevrolet.

Are we talking about the sheets over the vehicles or the “I’m a little bit country/rock n roll’ ones.  I find both to be annoying.

Not the new ones, thought they aren't great either.

The ones with the sheets, or some group of "regular people" guessing which car is best in it's class at this or that.  This stuff:

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Chevrolet was named after a French race car driver (partner). Apple Pie? Baseball?

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Chevrolet was named after a French race car driver (partner). Apple Pie? Baseball?

Swiss. Louis Chevrolet was from Switzerland.

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That is even worse.

Are you sure?

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Build the wall.

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Well, now we know why their commercials are stoopid.

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