{"id":1961,"date":"2007-06-14T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T13:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/06\/squashed_credit\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T13:10:36","slug":"squashed_credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/squashed_credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Squashed Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so it has <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002070.html\">come to pass&#8230;<\/a> The BBC has adopted its new &#8220;squashed into the corner&#8221; credit policy with quite dire results.<br \/>\nYou can no longer hear the programme&#8217;s closing theme music, since audio from the top video preview plays over the top.<br \/>\nYou sometimes can&#8217;t read the credits because they&#8217;re too small. I sat about five feet away from a 32&#8243; TV the other night, and couldn&#8217;t read the Dr Who credits at all. The font was too small to be legible.<br \/>\nYou sometimes can&#8217;t read the credits because they&#8217;re not correctly aligned. Several programmes in the last couple of days seem to have an &#8220;oducer&#8221; and &#8220;rector.&#8221; Which is nice.<br \/>\nIf I made programmes and could throw my weight around, like Stephen Poliakoff for example, I&#8217;d insist on having my credits go out in full size and unmolested.<br \/>\nAs it stands it&#8217;s quite simply insulting to viewers.<br \/>\nOh, and if the idea is that running these simultaneous trails will stop be channel surfing, it actually does the exact opposite. Now I know that when a programme ends, I might as well immediately flip channels because I&#8217;m not going to be able to see the credits or hear the closing theme music anyway.<br \/>\nI <U>hate hate hate<\/U> the new style credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so it has come to pass&#8230; The BBC has adopted its new &#8220;squashed into the corner&#8221; credit policy with quite dire results. You can no longer hear the programme&#8217;s closing theme music, since audio from the top video preview plays over the top. You sometimes can&#8217;t read the credits because they&#8217;re too small. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}