Anonymous
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join:2004-06-01
IA | Ads?
if it's video ad free I'll check it out. |
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Jovi
join:2000-02-24
Mount Joy, PA
 ·Comcast
| Their are ads that last roughly 30 seconds 3 times in a 1 hour episode. The quality is much higher than Youtube but not nearly as good a Divx-Stage6 was. R.I.P. Stage6. 
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TheMG
join:2007-09-04
Edmonton, AB | Ads? No thanks. Gonna stick to my torrents. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
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said by Jovi  :Their are ads that last roughly 30 seconds 3 times in a 1 hour episode. The quality is much higher than Youtube but not nearly as good a Divx-Stage6 was. R.I.P. Stage6. What killed stage6 was their requiring to use their proprietary player to view. the only peeve i have with ads in the content is its the SAME AD over and over.
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Anonymous
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join:2004-06-01
IA | reply to Jovi
Well while that's a major improvement over TV advertising it's still something I am not interested in. 90 sec of ads is 90 sec too much.
I'd rather stick with low quality youtube videos than watch ads. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| said by Anonymous :Well while that's a major improvement over TV advertising it's still something I am not interested in. 90 sec of ads is 90 sec too much. I'd rather stick with low quality youtube videos than watch ads. The only reason theres so few ads on the online versions is that bandwidth to serve them costs money.
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Anonymous
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join:2004-06-01
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| said by dvd536 :said by Anonymous :Well while that's a major improvement over TV advertising it's still something I am not interested in. 90 sec of ads is 90 sec too much. I'd rather stick with low quality youtube videos than watch ads. The only reason theres so few ads on the online versions is that bandwidth to serve them costs money. I like when they do text advertising on the page, I can easily block that.
Video ads suck. I don't care about their expenses. I want it free and I want it now 
Using Firefox, Adblock, Admuncher, HOSTS to block that crap. Also pay for DVR service through my cable co just to skip ads. Yeah I hate ads. |
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xirian
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join:2003-01-26
Beacon, NY
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I don't know if they changed it since I haven't used hulu in a while, but when I was using it I would just refresh a few times until it said "brought to you with limited commercial interruption by..". Usually this meant that there was no ads throughout the show or if there was they lasted 5 seconds. |
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maartena
Obama 2008
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
| reply to TheMG
said by TheMG :Ads? No thanks. Gonna stick to my torrents. Ads I didn't really mind that much.... I tested it, and the video quality is pretty good, and you don't have to wait for a torrent to come in when you missed a show. Plus it is legal, where torrents are not.
The biggest drawback I found is the webplayer. When you full-screen it on your 2nd monitor, and you move your mouse back to the first monitor to do other things, the webplayer jumps back to windowed mode, which is really annoying, and annoying enough for me to download the torrent of a TV show I forgot to put in my DVR or otherwise missed.
The webplayers from e.g. CNN and other video sites don't do this.
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elwoodblues
join:2006-08-30
Toronto, ON
| said by maartena :said by TheMG :Ads? No thanks. Gonna stick to my torrents. Ads I didn't really mind that much.... I tested it, and the video quality is pretty good, and you don't have to wait for a torrent to come in when you missed a show. Plus it is legal, where torrents are not. No torrents are legal, its the content you are trading in that's illegal. Don't lump the two of them together. |
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Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ
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said by Anonymous :Well while that's a major improvement over TV advertising it's still something I am not interested in. 90 sec of ads is 90 sec too much. I'd rather stick with low quality youtube videos than watch ads. YouTube is being hit with a lot of letters lately demanding that content get yanked... Hulu is a partnership of NBC Universal and News Corporation (FOX). So the episodes that get posted on there will stay there. Yes, there are advertisements, but you don't have to worry about the stuff getting yanked for copyright violations. Everyone is complaining about how the movie studios, etc. aren't doing enough to make their content more affordable, so here you have an up-and-coming site that isn't charging a DIME to watch anything, including full length movies, but you get 90 seconds of advertising in an hour... what more do you want? You want it for FREE and without ads? How are they supposed to make any money at all? Do you still not support the people behind the scenes who spent hours and hours and hours of their lives making the stuff so you could watch it? Now that these sites are starting to show up, and with ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, etc. making full episodes with 30 miniscule amounts of commercials available on their websites, I have no sympathy for people who have issues with their internet providers giving them crap because a complaint was filed. The RIAA is a totally different nightmare, but the TV studios are at least making an attempt, and you should give them a chance before totally discounting them because of a few commercials.
But some people aren't happy unless it's totally free. In which case, I wish you luck, because it's never, ever going to happen - legally at least. |
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Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-01
IA | Then I guess I'll have to get it illegally. No problem. I hate video ads. |
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