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The Hard Sell #261 or something - BMTV (Patreon)

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2026-06-12 10:37:27
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John Nathan-Turner would class this as "oddball".

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Roger Swift

7:31 ''only time ads ran on the bbc'' ... wrong, commerical breakdown that ran for 20 years remember ;) #pedantry

Roger Swift

Well only the spoof ones in the goodies and canned carrott ;p Seriously tho the existence of these is truly fascinating in itself. I feels like your watching something leaking though from a parallel reality.

Michelle Lyons

The only other time I've heard of an ad break being in any kind of pre-recorded video was with the suitably ultra-niche TeD disc system from the 1970s, which I think was only available in West Germany. The acronym stood for "Television Electronic Disc", and was basically a slightly absurd affair where a video signal plus audio was printed onto a kind of flexi-disc that you fed into a proto-VCR thing. And like flexi-discs, or vinyl in general, it was read via an actual physical stylus, a little like RCA's slightly later and equally doomed attempt at inventing home video. It didn't take off mainly because of the insanely short runtime of each disc. For a decent picture the discs had to be run at considerable speed, and TeD releases came in either 8 inch or 12 inch versions, which ran to eight minutes and ten minutes respectively. Despite manufacturers Telefunken hopeful plans for the platform, VHS kicked their arses due to being able to playback up to three hours of material, not to mention the ability to record stuff onto it, and the fact that videotape is a hardier medium than floppy vinyl. Sorry for the massive info dump. Anyway, the following Youtube video shows a bit of that weird ad break on a German videodisc about the 1974 World Cup (?) in appalling quality (the machine used is a bit buggered): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkP4ZJnMVOs (skip to 17 minutes 22 seconds) I have no idea if anyone's managed to rip the whole thing, let alone in better quality.

Iain Shepherd

Thanks for the link 👀 Speaking of. Technology Connections’ series on the hilaribad catastrofuck of “RCA Selectavision” is one of the few long YouTube series I will watch again and again. (another is ITV In The Face)