G4: The Pong Channel?

CoffeeNowDammit writes "Care to watch other people play Pong? You may be able to do so with the debut of G4, a new US cable channel (via participating Comcast cable providers) devoted entirely to video-gaming. G4 will air a marathon of Pong.. 24 hours a day.. see ball, see ball bounce.. for an entire week. Story is here . What a country." This has got to be a joke, right? A fake press release? Please, tell me it's a joke.

Comments

Considering the other choices..

[jx100]

At least it's a little more intellectually stimulating than, say the average "100 greatest (insert musical genre)" marathons

Re:Considering the other choices..

[Alien54]

Considering that there are channels that are Nothing but advertising, and people will actually watch those ....

this has a certain zen like aspect to it that is refreshing.

Fortunately, I hardly ever watch TV, and I never got cable, because things on it worth seeing hardly ever make an appearance.

[it's a cost benefit ratio thing. Is it worth paying hundreds of dollars a year just in case something like the Osbournes will show up? I mean, what are the odds?]

So?

[xt]

There are a lot of other shows out there presenting the same quality viewing... They are just glorified and called names like reality, social, news...

Come to thing of it, this must be the first show on TV where you get to see what promised!

As for ads, they will just throw subliminal messages. I bet if you watch a ball bounce for a couple of hours, you are receiptive to pretty much everything they show you!

(watch the ball, Luke... (-: )

You guys are missing something..

[bludstone]

This is a tactical move.

People will be flipping through the channel and come across pong. They will stop, because everyone recognizes pong. They will see "g4, the videogame network" at the bottom corner. Many people in the target audience will go "duuude, check it out, man, a videogame network.. sweet!.. hey dont bogart that J"

They will look at their tv and say "k, videogame network is channel 42, ill scope it out later." and change the channel.

2 days later.. "what happened to that videogame network.." *flips through channels* "here it is.. woah, coverage of that new ps2 release that everyone is drooling over!"

get it?

Re:It's not a joke.

[mericet]

"It is expected to have 350 to 400 hours of original content per year."

Does anyone else consider a 4% original content ratio insanly small? Or is it only me?

Seriously, what is the world coming to?

Re:Joke

[OSSTwitSpotter]

Who wants to watch people playing games anyway?

The same people who watch snooker or golf on tv?

You watch the Superbowl, you watch Wimbledon.

[Azahar]

Did you ever watch your children play football.

It is all the same unless you are on the field and your body is on the line.

Pong is fine by me.