New Apple 'Get A Mac' Ads On Canadian TV?

[JeffDM]

I think the ads have a bit of a charm to them but the style of ads where a human is "playing" the product has the downside of being lame too. It sounds like the style of a bad Japanese ad.

 

[thedonga]

Why do so many people do this? I mean, what happened to VCRs and Tivos, and even just running the line straight into your camcorder? It's just this is the absolute last way I'd record something.

quit your whining and just say thank you.....geez.

 

[rcnscan]

Why do so many people do this? I mean, what happened to VCRs and Tivos, and even just running the line straight into your camcorder? It's just this is the absolute last way I'd record something.

Good Point, Touche.

I do have a DVR, a Motorola one, and the Firewire ports do not talk to my Mac so that I can digitize the TV signal. I saved the commercial on the DVR and I used my camcorder with a tripod to tape the screen on my Plasma TV. I wanted to get the commercial on the internet as soon as possible. It even took me an hour to compress the video on my Mac due to some technical problems; even Macs are not perfect .

A video converter bridge is the best thing to have. I do have a Canopus ADVC300 for such work but I lent it out . http://www.canopus.com/

I could have used my PowerMac 7300 that has a video capture card and it would have been better. Unfortunately, I gutted the 7300 and tried to upgrade everything in it and it did not work and I need to fix it.

 

[RedTomato]

I have been a macrumors user for a long time and really appreciate their hard work. However, I am going to stop surfing to macrumors.com if they keep putting those lame ads that stick to my screen on their site ... I DON'T WANT TO FILL OUT THE STUPID SURVEY!!!!

Just a rant from someone who has had enough

It's happened to a few other people on OSX / safari too.

See this thread

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=2869728

Arn (site god) is investigating, and hopefully the offending ad will be be basted to smithereens.

 

[shyataroo]

last I checked...yesterday.... apple had those ads up on its site as well.


and its the same old mac guy...and pc guy.

 

[jimsowden]

Good Point, Touche.

I do have a DVR, a Motorola one, and the Firewire ports do not talk to my Mac so that I can digitize the TV signal. I saved the commercial on the DVR and I used my camcorder with a tripod to tape the screen on my Plasma TV. I wanted to get the commercial on the internet as soon as possible. It even took me an hour to compress the video on my Mac due to some technical problems; even Macs are not perfect .

A video converter bridge is the best thing to have. I do have a Canopus ADVC300 for such work but I lent it out . http://www.canopus.com/

I could have used my PowerMac 7300 that has a video capture card and it would have been better. Unfortunately, I gutted the 7300 and tried to upgrade everything in it and it did not work and I need to fix it.

Your camcorder is most likely a birdge, you can just plug the DVR into it.

Edit: I'm not trying to be citical, and thanks much for posting it up, I just wanted to suggest a better way, or understand why it's not possible.

 

[diogowerner]

why was the video removed? does anybody have a new link?

 

[aafuss1]

why was the video removed? does anybody have a new link?

Could be it was removed by a user or less likely, Apple's legal department.

 

[prady16]

Is it just me or does someone else also finds these ads just OK?
The microsoft office one is the better of the two, but still i feel they both lack the killer punch!

 

[notjustjay]

Is there any place else I can see the ads, since the Youtube link no longer works?

 

[Thunderbird]

What are the names of the actors? Which is which?

It's classic Laurel and Hardy casting: fat guy, skinny guy. Except in the ads the skinny (Apple) guy seems to be the straight man.

 

[NewSc2]

ugh, Google Video took them over and at the end of them they have a "Post to Blog/MySpace" option. Is MySpace that popular that it has to overdo the "embed" function?

 

[mi5moav]

All 3 new ads can be seen by refreshing http://www.news.com

I'm sure this is old new but they are there, if the links have been removed. As of 230pm columbus day still not on the apple website.

 

[ctakim]

Is it just me or does someone else also finds these ads just OK?
The microsoft office one is the better of the two, but still i feel they both lack the killer punch!

It is just you. These ads make me want to go back to my Apple Mac roots although I've been strictly PC for over 10 years.

 

[Grakkle]

It is just you. These ads make me want to go back to my Apple Mac roots although I've been strictly PC for over 10 years.

I've seen both ads. They're really well done - not at all like the jumble of bad graphics, poor pics and inane garble that comprise most tv ads.

Yup. Canadians get the cool stuff.