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NutmegCT

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OK - this is my first Pub visit. Be nice.

So I'm watching "Last Stand of the 300" (Greeks vs Persians) on History Channel.

Eight minutes after the show started, they ran eight commercials in six minutes. Then 9 minutes later, they ran 12 commercials in seven minutes. Twelve? And two of the twelve were the same that were run 10 minutes earlier. Then 10 minutes later they ran six more. Yeesh.

I know the stations get $$$ for running commercials, and the more they run at "heavy viewing hours" the more the commercials bring in to the station.

But come on ... when almost 50% of the hour is commercials, I switch to another station, or actually ... gasp ... read.

Do you folks get totally ticked off and turned off too? The huge amount of (stupid) advertising on cable, broadcast, even internet pages covered with Flash movies that move across your screen so you can't close the ad window? And the scrolling titles at the bottom of the screen advertising other programs *over* the program being shown? Unreal.

Jeez - I'd pay the advertiser to *not* run commercials. It's bad enough to have 500+ stations on cable, satellite, etc., with hardly anything worth watching (do we really want 12 home shopping channels?).

How do you folks stand it?

Tom
 
I feel somewhat the same, but on the otherhand, I understand why they do it - to make money. Unless we live in some communist state (or socialist state) broadcasters must make a profit and advertising is the #1 way to do that. It would be nice though if they didn't have so many because I agree, it does take away from the enjoyment of the movie. I think the appeal of Pay-per-View and services like NetFlix (which I use) is that you can watch a movie uninterrupted.

Basil
 
Tom, I've practically resorted to recording anything I really want to watch, merely so I can fast fwd through the commercials.
Another thing that gripes me is when they compress the screen when the credits are running, to show ads for other programs. There are a lot of times, particularly with older shows, when I actually <u>want</u> to read the credits!
Jeff
 
NutmegCT said:
OK - this is my first Pub visit. Be nice....
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Welcome to the pub, NutmegCT (Connecticut! The Nutmeg State!). I think you'll find it friendly.

I got tired of commercials years ago & I often feel that they're stealing my time, which is one of my most valuable commodities. That 5 minute commercial steals 5 minutes of my life.

I just stopped watching TV several years ago. This means I don't understand many pop-culture references etc but I have no regrets at all. We do subscribe to Netflix and I watch that sometimes. More time in the shop & more time reading are good things.
 
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif Commercials really infuriate me. I now Tivo everything and then watch at my leisure and fast forward through the commercials.

Doing this makes me very /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
I am finding out that Sirius is the same way.

You get TV for free. New invention comes along called Cable. No commercials but you have to pay. They hook a ton of people on to it then they start with 1 then 2 then 3,,, next thing you know you are paying to watch TV with commercials.

I thought that Sirius was commercial free. It ain't. The set the bait, reel you in and laugh all the way to the bank.
 
Same for XM, NOT commercial free either. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif Ticks me off a tad.
 
I watch very little TV. But what I do watch is pre recorded by me! Luckily my method of recording has four speeds, I can literaly rip through the comercials and a furious rate, five or six minutes worth of comercials can be gone through in 30 seconds or less. And to top it off fast forwarding also mutes the sound. Paying big bucks for TV with comercials is a rippoff!!! And we the consumers are the ones getting the short end of the stick so to speak. Oh ... if I want to make a Pb&j sandwich and retrieve a glass of milk I let the commercial run while I attend to it, Muted of course.
 
AND...if anyone saves their TV-watching time for the wee hours, that cable that we are paying through the nose for is almost wall-to-wall "paid programming" infomercials and precious few real programs! What happened to the fact that WE pay good money for our subscriptions? Can't we watch whenever we want? Don't we pay enough? Do the cable companies have to "steal" the time WE paid for and re-sell it to commercial advertizers? And what's with all the Spanish channels? I do not see any Greek, Croatian, Italian, Arabic or whatever OTHER minority channels!! Our common language is English!! We should keep it that way! At the very least so that we have that IN COMMON!!!

Oooooh!!! I feel a major rant brewing, so I will just quit for now.... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif
 
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