Ok, what the #@%&%@#$!

I tuned in to G4’s Live coverage of the Microsoft Press Event at E3 the other night. I started watching about an hour early, and listened to all the lead-in stuff. Blah Blah Blah. Finally, the press event starts, and 5 minutes into it, G4 cuts to a couple of minutes of commercials!! What’s the point of televising an event LIVE if they cut to commercials during it! They did it several times during the show. I found out online later about announcements like Viva Pinata: Party Animals, which was discussed in full during the commercial interruption. I could have swore I heard them say during that hour lead-in that they were bringing the press event “without commercial interruption.”

I set the DVR to record the Nintendo and Sony press events the next day, since they aired during the day. They were interrupted just the same. I’d rather they start the event live and time shift as they show commercials, so it’s not “100% live” than to actually miss a good 8-10 minutes of each event. Lame.