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drjayphd

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Since: 11-18-05
From: CT

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Posted on 10-27-06 01:53 AM Link | Quote
I have to say, the single most intelligent and thoughtful comments on that clip came from responses to rainbowwarrior777. Yes, you all wholeheartedly agree.

Although this was a close second: "Yeah! SRRSLY. WHat is this stupid shit. No one is screaming or playing rock music. You know? I didn't see a single can of Mountain Dew the ENTIRE time. I don't even understand how a calm ad can possibly be effective. Especially when it's clearly supposed to be in HD. I mean, YouTube HAS the sort of HD quality streaming that is needed to capture that quality, so WTF Sony? YOU GUYZ SUX!"

(Psst: the ad's way too brainy for its own good. It might be effective if it wasn't so... well, if it had anything to do with the PS3.)
Cara Zeltina

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Since: 05-11-06

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Posted on 10-27-06 02:06 AM Link | Quote
I'd be fine with it if they were advertising HD "and" the console properly. Instead, for two minutes they go on about high definition picture quality (while only circling a camera around granny's house) and then a bunch of stuff explodes.. I know "why" they made stuff explode, it was an effect to add to the whole HD thing they kept going on about.. but it has "nothing" to do with the console or its picture quality, "at all."

Like I initially said.. it felt more like a Kodak commercial for the majority of it, then it just felt stupid towards the end as they threw in the Afrika footage for a couple of seconds.. I mean, ugh, if you're so on about it, why not "focus" on that game and have a bit of granny exploding at the end? And not the other way around like it is?
Zidane

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Since: 07-14-06
From: Melbourne, FL

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Posted on 10-27-06 04:57 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Cara Zeltina
Are you really sure it is working for them? Can you prove that? I can't prove otherwise either of course, but the way you're holding up your arguement is with an undertone that you "know" it is working for them, and I don't see how you could "know" that anymore than I could. Still, it doesn't take much to see this is a pretty poor-taste advertisement.. And I can't see anyone in their 40's or so doing anything but rolling their eyes at these ad's..

Seriously, you can hold a professional image marketed towards 30-40 year olds that still catches the eye of the younger demograph without blowing up grandma's house and throwing zebra's around. Whether or not it actually works is definitely one thing, while whether or not it is stupid as hell is another. In the end though.. I suspect it can be "both."

Edit:
By the way, scientific stufies and crap to see what the audience wants doesn't really mean anything to me.. If that really worked, we wouldn't (all of us wouldn't) see so many annoying or pointless advertisements like we do today.. You can't ever read the minds of the public, it is a wild variable that cannot be determined by a scientific study.. At best, they round off an estimate from a vague or rough figure that only included a relatively small or moderate portion of the audience to begin with, and for that reason you can't ever actually "know" something is working.. They can only just "hope" it works in their position.


Maybe the advertising agency could've come up with something that may attract an audience of all ages, but it may not have been what they were hired to produce.

But are you even trying to understand my posts? There was no "knowing" undertone - I said quite clearly that Sony's commercial is working for them. I also happen to know that statistical analysis data is correct more often than not. Estimates are not vague, though they can sometimes be a little rough. If you want to thoroughly understand how and why statistical analysis works, though, you'll be studying for years.

Though some of the commercials you consider "annoying" or "pointless" may not be effective due to cheap research or budget constraints, most of them are. Have you ever seen the HeadOn commercial? It's been showing for quite a while now. It's one of the most annoying commercials I've ever seen, but it must be working if they're still using it.
Ten

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Since: 12-09-05
From: Denver

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Posted on 10-27-06 09:12 PM Link | Quote
Whelp, I just found a pair of um... non-idiotic ads for the PS3, let's watch those.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkH8bdKi4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYIic2odNqs&NR
Schweiz oder etwas
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Since: 11-17-05
From: Kingston, Rhode Island

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Posted on 10-28-06 12:28 AM Link | Quote
I'll see your somewhat less stupid ads...

...and raise you another piece of trash.
PrincessPeach

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Since: 11-18-05
From: Rüti ZH

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Posted on 10-29-06 05:18 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Ten
Whelp, I just found a pair of um... non-idiotic ads for the PS3, let's watch those.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkH8bdKi4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYIic2odNqs&NR



Both commercials feel like bad plots from sci-fi movies.
Kingpin



 





Since: 11-21-05
From: Amarillo, TX

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Posted on 10-29-06 06:00 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Prinny God of Nature
I'll see your somewhat less stupid ads...

...and raise you another piece of trash.

I will see your piece of trash and raise you the entire piece of trash in better quality.
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