Post #227,076
9/29/05 10:01:08 AM
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Are you out of your fscking mind?!?
Cineplex Galaxy, a moviehouse chain in Toronto, has requested a zoning variance to allow them to erect 2 50 foot high HDTV Diamondtron-type contrivances to display movie trailers...to commuters traveling on Toronto-area expressways. This is from a [link|http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/2005/agendas/council/cc050719/et6rpt/cl008.pdf|Staff report (.pdf)] objecting tho the variance: This sign is intended to display clips from movies showing at the cinema as well as the times the
shows are airing. The faces of this sign will consist of 2 full colour video boards utilizing high definition television (HDTV) technology. This requires variance #2 listed above to be addressed. Staff has concerns with is with respect to the video display element of the sign for a number of reasons.
The advertising on these signs is targeting vehicular traffic travelling on The Gardner Expressway. The applicant has prepared plans demonstrating the viewing angles from the onramp from Islington Ave to The Gardner Expressway. This plan demonstrates that not until a vehicle has moved approximately three-quarters of the way through the ramp will the video screen be visible. This plan does confirm that the effective viewing area for the screens will be
for persons travelling in the vehicles in both directions on The Gardner Expressway. There may be some transportation hazards associated with the location of this sign in close proximity to the Gardner Expressway. I don't know about Toronto, but such a thing in any of theh Chicago-area so-called "express"-ways is an immediate 25-car pile-up just waiting for a place to happen.... jake123, what is this?!? jb4
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Post #227,078
9/29/05 10:06:29 AM
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And the death toll skyrockets!
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Post #227,083
9/29/05 10:21:45 AM
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Already something similar in Cleveland
The new Cleveland Browns stadium has a display on the outside on both ends. The format is more bumper-sticker shaped, so you can't play clips from any normal programming, but they have moving ads on there all the time. And you can see them from the two busiest entrances to downtown. Very distracting during morning rush hour, especially in the winter when it's still dark during rush hour. [link|http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/stadium/browns_vision.php|Official word]: Two other ProStar boards are mounted on the outside of the Stadium. Measuring 90 feet long and 25 feet high they are the largest animated display boards in the city. How big is 90' x 25'? Almost [link|http://www.daktronics.com/photo_detail.cfm?cc=cc03035|this big]. ===
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Post #227,092
9/29/05 11:06:02 AM
9/29/05 11:26:18 AM
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Aren't there standards committees blocking this?
I assume, like the UK, car manufacturers can't build TV screens where the driver can see it. There are standards committees annoying us with such rules. The Canadian versions haven't said anything?
Matthew Greet
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
Edited by warmachine
Sept. 29, 2005, 11:26:18 AM EDT
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Post #227,093
9/29/05 11:10:37 AM
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Toronto's in Canada
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Post #227,096
9/29/05 11:26:41 AM
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/me kicks self
Matthew Greet
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
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Post #227,098
9/29/05 11:28:17 AM
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We know the answer to that question already
Yes, marketers are out of their minds. Anything for a buck. Fuck safety.
Further east (right in the downtown area) of where those proposed TVs would go, there is already a very bright video sign. I find it quite irritating to drive past it when I irregularly do. I don't know what the stats are for accidents around there but I suspect the regular drivers have gotten used to it and ignore the bloody thing.
Given the traffic usually along there I suspect most accidents caused by those two signs would be fender benders which of course would make the traffic jam along there even worse.
There has been a pretty big uproar about it already so I suspect that it may get squashed.
lister
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Post #227,101
9/29/05 11:38:32 AM
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Heh - there used to be an Adult Drive-in near Ann Arbor
where the screen was visible from the nearby highway. Many accidents later they required them to pay for a bunch of high powered floodlights along that stretch of roadway to make it hard to see what was on the screen.
Don't know if its still there.
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"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
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Post #227,112
9/29/05 12:48:31 PM
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Nope. It's not there anymore.
Been gone ever since people started watching porn in the comfort of their own home. Thanks to cable and VCRs, there's no need to get one's porn fix at the drive in anymore.
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Post #227,127
9/29/05 2:25:16 PM
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What!?
You mean people actually went to the drive-in and watched what was on? ANd here I thought there was a completely different reason to go to the drive-in. My poor misspent youth... ;-)
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Post #227,129
9/29/05 2:39:39 PM
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I suppose if there was a 20 foot naked couple
in front of you having sex, you'd watch, too. It would be kinda hard not to.
Just to be clear, I never went to *that* drive in. I went to the regular ones where I didnt bother watching the movie, either. ;-)
I got my introduction to porn at Michigan State where they would show porn flicks in one of the lecture halls on the weekend. God, I loved that school!
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Post #227,131
9/29/05 2:51:09 PM
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Just to warm up - you know break the ice
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #227,135
9/29/05 3:19:11 PM
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IWETHEY's Terrible Horde of Erectile Yammerers.
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Post #227,134
9/29/05 3:14:50 PM
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We must not interfere with Natural Selection
Those who, while travelling at 120 kph or so - will, nevertheless - allow their attention to be distracted by a 50' close-up of a mouth or some appendage?
- despite, manifestly, existing within a noisy world of 24/7 advertainment?
- should be discouraged from reproducing. Subtly, but finally.
How much more subtleriffic can ya get?
Yeay! Canada!
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Post #227,246
9/30/05 1:54:40 AM
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We have at least one video billboard in Sydney.
It's not HD, AFAIK, but it is very bright, shows TV ads as well it's own selection and probably annoys lots of drivers as they follow the Princes Highway around the curve in question. The speed limit there is 60km/h, so it's not nearly as dangerous were it to face an expressway. There have been a number of letters in the local paper asking what the accident rate must be, but the request was ignored.
Wade.
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