The bumper…I don’t know what it’s called…that little clip with the snow that fades in and reveals the logo.
It’s terrible.
For one, a lot of people actually don’t know what TV static is. Analog broadcasts stopped almost 16 years ago, and before that, most younger people had cable.
For another, static is really difficult to compress. It looks horrible and consumes way too much bandwidth for just a couple of seconds that won’t even load right. If anything, they should cache a local copy of the bumper in-app in a format that doesn’t look like ass when every pixel changes every frame.
it could be something like “hbo… if you like it, zazlav will probably kill it. enjoy!”
a lot of people actually don’t know what TV static is.
What? Everyone knows what TV static is. This is like boomers claiming that kids don’t know what vinyl records are. You just think everyone younger than you is stupid…
I was also very confused by this statement. One of my computer screens is still doing it from time to time. Seems still relevant to me
But do you know what sound they make?
HBO Max, for the brief period of time it existed, had a more fitting ‘bumper’. Hacks, which started out as a ‘Max Original’ still had it in season 3, but The Penguin, which was a Max Original until it wasn’t, has the fuzzy version (I’ve had players that struggle with it a bit, but I doubt HBO gives a shit about the quality of my experience pirating their stuff)
NPR did a podcast on those “bumpers” (there’s a term that I don’t recall). HBO wanted to change theirs for the reason you indicated as well as the fact that it was rather long compared to Netflix’s and others. They paid a lot of money to develop others and also do testing\ polling with end users. The original beat out all the rest because it’s been their bumper for so long.
I prefer the original too. It’s like the macOS boot sound and Apple trying to get rid of it — it’s too much of a classic.
In the UK they’re called ‘idents’. You can find a huge collection of UK ones here https://theident.gallery/
For one, a lot of people actually don’t know what TV static is. Analog broadcasts stopped almost 16 years ago, and before that, most younger people had cable.
That’s the neat part, people don’t know what it is, and will find out the history of it if they decided to look it up. There’s a reason Marvel’s intro where they flip through all the comic book is so popular, it’s their history.
I wish marvel would go back to that… Nowadays with the juggernaut that is the MCU we have that weird CGI intro for “MARVEL STUDIOS” that shows clips from previous movies.
