Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”

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    imagine watching the sopranos and rachel maddow pops onto your screen and goes “BREAKING NEWS: LEV PARNAS HAS JUST BEEN INDICTED, THIS IS HUGE, THE WALLS ARE FINALLY CLOSING IN AROUND DONALD TRUMP”

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    Tired of only having airport lounge views?

    “How do you show key art that rotates?” he asks. “Is there a way to change the key art to repesent more closely what Anderson may be talking about at 15 minutes after the hour versus 30 minutes after the hour?”

    You slap the fake news trust fund baby “anchor” with shocked-pikachu SEO face and a b-roll still with an arrow. Takes less than a few minutes, probably easily automated. Just saved you a million in “consulting”. youre-welcome

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      You can have the million but I want my Emmy Award…

      Key art ideas

      Key idea - keep 'em active.

      • Spinning hurricane

      • Burning fire with buildings

      • Burning wildfire

      • Flooding flood icon

      • Shaking earthquake icon

      • Spinning tornado

      • Wardrobe malfunction Rated-G flash

      • Various sportsball icons

      • Animated firing gun #1 potential mass shooting in progress

      • Animated firing gun #2 active mass shooting with current death count

      • Happy spinning Trump head

      • Neutral spinning Trump head

      • Unhappy spinning Trump head

      • [Etc]

      I got a million of these.