On 14/12/2011 01:48 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that most if not all of these
>> are American. Occasionally you see American adverts on UK TV, and you
>> can always spot them very easily.
>
>    When they show these American infomercials in Finland, they usually
> re-edit them to remove the most egregious parts (one concrete example
> given by the Finnish editors is if the infomercial shows an audience
> being completely excited and handing out money to the presentators in
> order to "buy" the product right away). They are still often quite
> ridiculous, though.

Occasionally too, I see adverts on UK TV where the actors are /clearly/ 
speaking some other language, and yet I hear English voices very poorly 
synced to the image. Presumably this is a cost-cutting exercise...

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