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Old 04-27-2003 | 07:42 PM
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I just saw an RX-8 commercial!

Fox just ran a commercial for the RX-8 in the middle of King of the Hill- showed the X-Car from Xmen2, as one of the three things "a mutant must have"- very nice!

Did have the kid whispering "Zoom Zoom" at the end, though, which I know some of you guys hate. I thought it was pretty neat though!
Old 04-28-2003 | 04:09 AM
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Thanks for the heads up, Elara. I popped in tape before getting dinner tonight (after reading this), and when I came back, there it was!

Here's an MPEG-1 in case anyone missed it (about 5MB, 30 seconds):
RX-8_X-MEN2_3Things.mpg.zip
Old 04-28-2003 | 08:19 AM
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Cool, seems like a collaboration of Mazda and X-men as a commercial for both. Still cool!
Old 04-28-2003 | 12:33 PM
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I got it on my Tivo
Old 04-28-2003 | 07:37 PM
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Herc, you don't have any idea how to pull movies off the Tivo, do you? I know there's a way (I don't mean taping to the VCR) but I think you might have to do some modifying of internal parts. Do you know?
Old 04-29-2003 | 12:28 PM
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Originally posted by Elara
Herc, you don't have any idea how to pull movies off the Tivo, do you? I know there's a way (I don't mean taping to the VCR) but I think you might have to do some modifying of internal parts. Do you know?
You will need to modify the box.

www.tivocommunity.com

is where to find out about modding the box. They're not too keen on talking about video extraction though.
Old 04-29-2003 | 07:34 PM
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Got an email from my dealer of an email they got from Mazda that included an attachment of "marketing launch activities". Here is the portion about the X2 commercials:

To help your dealership harness all the positive momentum that has been generated by the press accolades and the pre-sell activities—and build upon it in coming weeks—you and your sales team should be aware of some of the unique marketing activities that will keep our RX-8 squarely in the public spotlight:

• X2 Movie Placement
In addition to our other online support and the hugely popular, highly interactive X2 section of Mazda’s own Web site, the X2 movie version of our RX-8 will be also featured in X2 TV advertising for a full week beginning on April 27th. See attached schedule for details.
The aforementioned schedule was not attached. However, last night Mazda was "brought to you by" sponsor recognition for CSI: Miami and the "3 things..." commercial ran at least 3 times during the hour.
Old 04-29-2003 | 08:41 PM
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I was freaking out when I saw that commercial. I guess I am still not used to seeing the RX-8 on TV.
 
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