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I watch The Science Channel quite often, every single day. I work late hours and usually catch re-runs of shows I missed, and see a lot of commercials for Science Channel shows. I don't mind those. What I DO mind is the seemingly never ending Dragon Naturally Speaking Speech Recognition software commercials. I get annoyed from the first SIGHT of that commercial. They keep talking and and talking and talking, about the SAME. DAMN. THING. I have NEVER been so annoyed that I'd look up somewhere to complain about a commercial before, until this.
I'm surprised this complaint got as many replies as it did. I posted this in July of 2011 and it's now April 2012 and the commercial has changed, but it's STILL way. TOO. LOOOOOOOONG! It's also funny that when you type in dragon commercial, "dragon commercial too long" comes up and this is the first result. Discovery should really take note of this already.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Still, like chicken soup for colds, "it couldn't hurt",
This is true. If they start losing their audience, they will also lose advertising revenue because advertisers want to place on the most popular programs they can afford. Discovery will know early on when their viewer numbers drop, but if they know, for a fact, WHAT is sending their viewers channel surfing, they will soon be taking steps to correct that. Dragon is certainly not their only advertiser. I think I will just drift on over to Discovery.com, click on CONTACT US, and tell them how people are feeling. Since I am only one voice, I will suggest that they "drift on over" to this site. I will give them the exact address that is now on my navigation bar, and they can see for themselves "what's up, doc". Call it a "public service announcement" on behalf of the audience.
@icu2: The point is not that Dragon Software is an advertisement that Discovery Networks sells in order to bring us programming. Everyone KNOWS that's why these companies are in business. The point is that Discovery Networks has quite literally become a near full-time informercial for Dragon Software, and that they've cheapened and lessened the value of their own programming by expecting viewers to sit 15 minutes out of every 1 hour period listening to this cockamamy Dragon "story." It's simply not worth it. So we change the channel to maybe an A&E network, or TCM, or PBS, and not because they necessarily have better programming, and not because they don't necessarily have commercials. It is because they don't run 5-minute long Dragon software commercials. Discovery should be made aware that their viewers are super irked and are changing the channel because of this one commercial alone.
I have this wonderful option on my remote that I use for EVERY annoying commercial on television. The mute button! Commercials are much less annoying if you don't actually hear the nonsense they are spouting. If it's a long commercial, I also use my "last channel watched" button to jump to another channel, or take a moment to play with the dog, clean my fingernails, or something else more important than watching a frelling commercial. Those who have watched Farscape will get the last reference. Anyway, try your mute button. And try telling the company being advertised that you are muting their commercials; if they hear that from enough people, they may get the message. Even if they don't care if we're annoyed, if we're NOT EVEN LISTENING! Well, really . . .
lol ive never actually tried to find somewhere to complain about a company but man those commercials are brutal. i get so pissed off and change the channel every time i see one i totally agree with you guys they need to stop... id probably hurt the main dude so bad if i ever saw him
I encourage anyone who is annoyed to post a comment/feedback with the Discovery channel network's corporate offices (Yes, the Science Channel is one of their subsidiaries) :)
**The following address is where you can find the form. Attached is an example from yours truly.
http://corporate.discovery.com/contact/viewer-relations/
You know how I found this blog? By doing a google search with the following query: "Why are dragon commercials so annoying?"
And yes--somebody ought to tell the Science channel that if they continue airing 30-min long Dragon commercials, they will definitely start losing viewership.
As a matter of fact, every time I see one of those commercials come on, I immediately flip to the National Geographic channel, or the Discovery channel. I'd rather not watch the uber-interesting story of the Universe if it means I have to sit through numerous iterations of the same INFOMERCIAL!...
I was going to buy it, but after those commercials...NEVER! With no dought some of my money would be used to make more terrible commercials. If I ever saw that [censored] bottle who speaks first in those commercials, I'd split his head wide open.
I've actually had to change the channel just to avoid seeing this extremely long and annoying commercial. I too have never posted online like this but this just made me snap to do so. I was originally impressed with their software, but this commercial actually made me not want to continue using it.
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Hahaha! I came here for the same reason! It takes up a whole commercial break! The other thing that annoys the hell out of me is this recent cinematographic technique where they have a second camera filming the kid talking to the first camera. This commercial does exactly that. I don't even know why people would want this software anyway. You have to speak so slowly for it to understand that it's faster to just type. Add to that the fact that it gets homonyms wrong half the time (its/it's, there/their/they're, etc.) and it's easy to see how quickly Western civilization is heading down the drain.