Official Super Bowl 42 Ads Thread

[haichuu]

LMAO I liked the cheerleaders dancing around and the 300 plug. Also went to they're Announcments and what not, and it said something about a new add campaign because of strong 4 quarter sales I almost died laughing. muhahaha

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by whoelse

I so hope that is there commercial though!

I would laugh SOOOOO hard.

It will be quite funny tomorrow when the media starts reporting the best and worst ads. They can knock Toshba both for the worst ad AND for trying to sell a dead product.

They should have done a Mastercard style ad: "Bribing a movie studio: $150 million. Airing a terrible ad during the SuperBowl: $2.3 million. Having millions of people laughing at you for pretending you hadn't already lost a format war: priceless."

[mr peepers]

i just saw that ad again and noticed something at the end, they list walmart as one of the stores you can buy an hd dvd player at along with best buy circuit city and one other.

isnt walmart only going to be selling blu ray hardware in their stores?

i thought i read something on here about that.

false advertisement maybe? haha

[whoelse]

Originally Posted by JadedRaverLA

It will be quite funny tomorrow when the media starts reporting the best and worst ads. They can knock Toshba both for the worst ad AND for trying to sell a dead product.

They should have done a Mastercard style ad: "Bribing a movie studio: $150 million. Airing a terrible ad during the SuperBowl: $2.3 million. Having millions of people laughing at you for pretending you hadn't already lost a format war: priceless."

I actually hope they dont because thes free advertising, even if its of the worse kind.

[alphapyro]

that commercial has to be old, I'm positive I've seen it before a long time ago

[whoelse]

Gents, i think that was the ad! Unless the one in the middle of the game is different from the pre games.

Originally Posted by adage.com

Buy: One spot in-game, plus two in pre and post game shows.

Creative: Spot features scenes from hit HD DVD title releases including Bourne Ultimatum, Transformers and Shrek 3, as well as their LCD TV products.

Agency: Della Femina, Rothschild, Jeary Partners, New York.

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/show...=39096&page=59

[crystal_sun]

so did HD-DVD show their ad yet? This game is boring...i'm going out. hahhaa....I think they wasted 3 mil hahah.

[PS34EVER]

2.7 million dollars for that commercial?!

[desmond]

that sucked. also bad placement... makes dvd's look good. another scew up by shiba.

[jq71586]

And it's all so clear now why Shaq's basketball abilities have fallen off a cliff this year.

He's a dual sport athlete now. Jockeying must be hell on his body.

[dadkins]

After the game, go to:

http://www.myspace.com/superbowlads

... for all the spots.

[TheRealBob]

I doubt that was the ad. The ad during the game itself is supposed to be a huge deal. It is almost always the world premiere of the ad, so if the same company advertises earlier during the pre-game show, they will use an older ad for that.

If Toshiba just rolled out one of their lame "gosh isn't HD DVD cool" ads and ran the same ad during the pre-game show, then that would be unbelievably pathetic, even for them.

(I still find it hard to believe that the advertising industry has actually made this such a big deal that people will blather on about how they watch the Super Bowl for the ads. Can you imagine anything more sad than watching a 4-hour show to see commercials? And yet they actually have people saying that. Now that is some scary power they have.)

[galz]

Originally Posted by PS34EVER

2.7 million dollars for that commercial?!

I think I read 2.7 million was the "average" price. Average does not mean everyone paid that. I would think there would be some type of slot / market coverage pricing difference.

[TheRealBob]

Originally Posted by TheRealBob

I doubt that was the ad.

Maybe I was wrong and they are that pathetic. From another thread:

Originally Posted by Jack Torrance

Anyone else find it fittingly ironic that the HD-DVD commercial was broadcast in standard def (where many others were in HD) ?

Apart from that, it's just an old, reused crappy commercial, with a tag on the end about the $149 price point.

Also, the positioning, right at the first break before half time, is one of the worst you could really have. This is when a lot of viewers are hitting the bathrooms or grabbing a smoke before the half time show.

So it was the "what do we do after the game ad"? That's it? In SD?

Hopefully they at least took 300 out of it (it's in the online version of that ad).

[unreal1080p]

Originally Posted by dadkins

After the game, go to:

http://www.myspace.com/superbowlads

... for all the spots.

And here also: http://www.spike.com/superbowl/25701

[whoelse]

LMAO!! ROFL!

They used the one on the site! oh dear...

[Tanman19az]

Why didn't Sony have any ads during the Superbowl? I was kinda disappointed cuz I had some ppl over and that would've led into a conversation about how awesome blu-ray is

[techyted]

The HD-DVD commercial was PATHETIC..... What a waste of money for a dieing format.

[Tanman19az]

"Bud Light.....suck one!"

[J_UNTITLED]

Check 'em all out in their usually-unfunny-glory.