Mark Orme
05-10-2001, 15:05
Got a catalogue with the Daily Mail last week, and amongst the heavy duty thermal socks and zip-up OAP shoes, it had an amazing "dish" antenna! Only £5.
"Works like any ordinary rabbit ears.
Put one on every TV in your home.
Works entirely via "RF" technology - to capture signals right out of the air!
You pay NO satellite fees because you DON'T use satellite signals!
Not technical razzle-dazzle but a marketing breakthrough."
It kind of looks like a little sat. dish with directional telescopic aerials on either side.
Now I know deep down that it's cack, but I just wondered about the advert, 'cos I think it's a little misleading. Any old biddy reading it might get the impression that they could get satellite channels, which I presume that they couldn't. After all, "you pay no satellite fees because you don't use satellite signals", because you don't get satellite! Duhh!
After all if I was buying an aerial, I'd rather that it had a little "technical razzle-dazzle", rather than it being a "marketing breakthrough".
"Works like any ordinary rabbit ears.
Put one on every TV in your home.
Works entirely via "RF" technology - to capture signals right out of the air!
You pay NO satellite fees because you DON'T use satellite signals!
Not technical razzle-dazzle but a marketing breakthrough."
It kind of looks like a little sat. dish with directional telescopic aerials on either side.
Now I know deep down that it's cack, but I just wondered about the advert, 'cos I think it's a little misleading. Any old biddy reading it might get the impression that they could get satellite channels, which I presume that they couldn't. After all, "you pay no satellite fees because you don't use satellite signals", because you don't get satellite! Duhh!
After all if I was buying an aerial, I'd rather that it had a little "technical razzle-dazzle", rather than it being a "marketing breakthrough".