Game Show Forum > New ad with a mock "Family Feud"

StevensM

Nov 3 2005, 08:15 PM

I caught this yesterday and today got most of it recorded. (QuickTime, 2.4MB)
http://s94785766.onlinehome.us/clips/rrcommercial.mov

This ad is for the new Road Runner with AOL service from Time Warner.

WhammyPower

Nov 3 2005, 08:52 PM

I saw another one that looked like the Wonder Wall set.... but it was just questions and answers.

TimK2003

Nov 3 2005, 09:09 PM

Hmmm? I wonder what prompted them to come up with a game show-themed commercial???

We'll probably be seeing that "FF meets TPiR" commercial here in Northeast Ohio pretty quick as well, since Time-Warner is starting to acquire some of the cable providers located outside of Akron.

I still think the Comcastic spot remains the best of the bunch!

LA the DJ

Nov 4 2005, 02:58 AM

Finally...

I'd always wondered what would happen if MGP would have put a Feud podium in front of the TPiR turntable...

Yech.

StevensM

Nov 19 2005, 11:08 AM

QUOTE(WhammyPower @ Nov 3 2005, 08:52 PM)

I saw another one that looked like the Wonder Wall set.... but it was just questions and answers.
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Do you mean "Final Exam", which I saw for the first time yesterday? It looked like it was intended to be a take-off on Millionaire (hence the "Final Answer?" at the end, question on the screen, music on during the commercial, and the single contestant-facing-the-host format), but the set was a bit different.

nbcburbank

Nov 20 2005, 05:42 PM

Still nothing beats the Comcast/Pyramid spots. Those are Great!

Kevin Prather

Nov 20 2005, 06:19 PM

Didn't someone say that there was an extended version of that spot? I've only seen the short one.

StevensM

Dec 3 2005, 06:02 PM

QUOTE(WhammyPower @ Nov 3 2005, 08:52 PM)

I saw another one that looked like the Wonder Wall set.... but it was just questions and answers.
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This is the "Final Exam" spot I saw:
http://s94785766.onlinehome.us/clips/finalexam.mov

Although it's clearly a "Millionaire" spoof, the set & colors made me think of Donny Osmond's "Pyramid" at first glance.

LA the DJ

Dec 4 2005, 04:19 AM

Oh thank God he wasn't making anyone fill in a blank.

jrjgames

Dec 4 2005, 06:15 PM

QUOTE(StevensM @ Nov 3 2005, 08:15 PM)

I caught this yesterday and today got most of it recorded. (QuickTime, 2.4MB)
http://s94785766.onlinehome.us/clips/rrcommercial.mov

This ad is for the new Road Runner with AOL service from Time Warner.
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What codec did you use, I cant play it

John

WhammyPower

Dec 5 2005, 07:42 PM

QUOTE(jrjgames @ Dec 4 2005, 05:15 PM)

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Try getting Quicktime 7

whammy5000

Dec 6 2005, 12:22 AM

I can't download that player. I'm one o' dem poor folks in Alabama who's stuck with a Windows 98.

jrjgames

Dec 7 2005, 01:00 PM

QUOTE(WhammyPower @ Dec 5 2005, 07:42 PM)

QUOTE(jrjgames @ Dec 4 2005, 05:15 PM)

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Try getting Quicktime 7
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I have the newest Quicktime...still doesnt work

John

clemon79

Dec 7 2005, 01:22 PM

QUOTE(jrjgames @ Dec 7 2005, 10:00 AM)

I have the newest Quicktime...still doesnt work
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Plays fine for me. You might consider an un- and re- of Quicktime/iTunes.

jrjgames

Dec 7 2005, 01:41 PM

QUOTE(clemon79 @ Dec 7 2005, 01:22 PM)

QUOTE(jrjgames @ Dec 7 2005, 10:00 AM)

I have the newest Quicktime...still doesnt work
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Plays fine for me. You might consider an un- and re- of Quicktime/iTunes.
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Well it will play fine for anyone that has the correct codec, I didn't.

After some digging I found out it's an MPEG4 Audio codec.

This one did it for me.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DivX_M..._Compressor.htm

You might also need a avc1 codec which you can get at...

http://abcavi.kibi.ru/fourcc.php?fcc=AVC1&...ted+by+ffdshow)

John

clemon79

Dec 7 2005, 01:47 PM

QUOTE(jrjgames @ Dec 7 2005, 10:41 AM)

Well it will play fine for anyone that has the correct codec, I didn't.
After some digging I found out it's an MPEG4 Audio codec.
This one did it for me.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DivX_M..._Compressor.htm
You might also need a avc1 codec which you can get at...
http://abcavi.kibi.ru/fourcc.php?fcc=AVC1&...ted+by+ffdshow)
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Well, glad you got it working. It strikes me as odd that you needed a weird codec, though, since aside from XVid (and maybe that's the trick, I don't know), everything I have installed on this machine (my work laptop) is pretty much bog-standard.

(That said, I do also have some MP4 apps installed for converting television shows to something my iPod can play, so maybe that had something to do with it too.)

dzinkin

Dec 7 2005, 02:38 PM

QUOTE(clemon79 @ Dec 7 2005, 01:47 PM)

Well, glad you got it working. It strikes me as odd that you needed a weird codec, though, since aside from XVid (and maybe that's the trick, I don't know), everything I have installed on this machine (my work laptop) is pretty much bog-standard.

(That said, I do also have some MP4 apps installed for converting television shows to something my iPod can play, so maybe that had something to do with it too.)
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For what it's worth, the machine I'm on now, a Power Mac G4, has just recent versions of QuickTime and iTunes (one version behind the latest ones). It doesn't have any oddball codecs, most of which aren't even available for the Mac outside of specialized standalone freeware applications. Yet I had no trouble with the videos. Who knows?