Time Warner Redefines the DVR → Re: The other side of ad-skipping

Sorry to hear it bud.. but the fact is that you can't force feed someone something they don't want.

Here's a few things:

1) People work hard to avoid ads - it's their right! Telemarketers want the right to annoy people at dinner and feel it's their right to dial up MY phone line that *I* pay for. Broadcasters want to force feed me ads on Cable TV to which I PAY for. What part of that don't they get?

2) If you want the answer as to what's killing your business, stop looking to commercials. That's horse hooey. The self made rating system is a man made self soothing failure. Meaning, their way of measuring the viewer ship of ads is what they want it to be and has little statistical data to really chew on. The system can't measure, or get, that most people get up and simply do other things during a commercial.. No one really pays attention to commercials - period. Advertisers aren't advertising for many other reasons.

What also is killing your business are the very people they employ. To be honest, the people are getting tired of [insert any actor/actress name here] showing up in sex scandals, drinking and driving b.s., in and out of re-hab, and shall I even bother to pick on the Tom Cruises of the world?

They need to cut those idiots from the air or cut their salaries. There is PLENTY of money out there to shore up their industry. Cut them all.. across the board. If they don't want to work for 25% of their normal pay, then these reality shows do JUST fine! These snobs who act on TV will surely take what they can to "act" on TV and still do fine. Enough! The industry is self bloated and has way too much room to trim itself to stay alive.

3) The DVD sales loss to download is a pile of crap spoon fed by the industry. Download sites or viewing sites like YouTube have actually helped sales. People see it and then they want it. I'm only one person testifying to this, but I've looked up things on YouTube and went straight to Best Buy and purchased the series or DVD movie.

I wrote a thread in another topic about business models and why industries are failing. The ones that are failing are being bought out by younger start-up companies. Why? Because the old fogies and old ways of running a business (which is text book one track minded) isn't cutting it with today's more sophisticated consumer.

Younger execs try hard to change things in companies they work for only to be shut down by the old time suits. Eventually, the younger execs leave, start their start up and many times end up buying the "old news" businesses out.

Hollywood and programmers will ultimately wake up and realize that people are turning away from them because of how they treat people. Greed is what is killing them, not YouTube, the DVR or other "excuses".. If they don't knock their crap off, Hollywood will drastically cut back with out choice.

Reality TV is perfectly entertaining to people because people like to relate to their own kind. The Government which is WE THE PEOPLE is no longer a part of us.. it's us vs. them. Once someone becomes part of Hollywood, they are no longer regular folk, they become THEM.. Regular people are tired of being treated like lower class by the few elites in this country who enjoy being someone over others. The rest of us are tired of it.

Hollywood can continue to rot, or evolve and get with modern times.

By the way.. new programs on Friday and Saturday...? That's part of the break down of the family. The break down of Friday and Saturday happened WELL over a decade ago. The last I can remember of any decent weekend programming was Fantasy Island, Dukes of Hazard, and Love Boat. After those shows, the weekends took a dump.. this happened years ago. Families don't sit down and have TV time any more.

I'm sorry but I can't buy a single piece of your post. Not bashing YOU.. just can't agree with a single thing you said.

Very good post, well said.

i to look up things on youtube or many other sites then go buy them.

how about the DVR have a button to press JUST for Commercials, and with a keyword serch, That way if we want to shop we can, and not get interrupted by the annyoing Commercials right in the middle of a movie.

i say take all Commercials off Every channle.

put them in one place.