 SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | Ads? If they want to interrupt a show, they can find another viewer. I refuse to watch a show that keeps breaking out of context into ads.
Talk about losing the effect of being in the movie!
If they need to show ads, show them before, not during. |
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| said by SLD:If they want to interrupt a show, they can find another viewer. I refuse to watch a show that keeps breaking out of context into ads. Talk about losing the effect of being in the movie! If they need to show ads, show them before, not during. Then I hope you don't mind paying a subscription fee per channel. Otherwise, ads are here to stay. |
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SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | I certainly do NOT mind paying a subscription fee to avoid ads. I loved having HBO and Showtime, but I dropped them because Comcast required me to purchase $55 or unwanted "services" for the privilege of ordering the two pay channels.
No thanks! |
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 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
join:2004-03-20
Albany, CA | reply to SLD
One of the reasons I dropped cable/dish is because I got sick of paying over $100 per month to view advertisements. However, I don't mind ads on our OTA signals because I'm not paying cash for content access.
One day, folks will start waking up and realize they can watch virtually all of the exact same content that cable and dish provide access to, albeit a bit after the "live" broadcast, for free or for pennies per month via other sources.
The cable companies have already realized this. These guys are selling "freezers to eskimos" so to speak. |
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SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | I was working out and watching a rerun of CSI NY, and I pressed the 30second skip button 10 times through the last ad group. That is 5 solid minutes of ads! By the time you'd watch those, you'd forget what show you were trying to see. |
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 dddane
join:2002-01-10
Chicago, IL
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said by fifty nine  Then I hope you don't mind paying a subscription fee per channel. Otherwise, ads are here to stay.
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..or tons of product placement. |
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badtripI heart the East BayPremium
join:2004-03-20
Albany, CA | reply to SLD
said by SLD:5 solid minutes of ads! By the time you'd watch those, you'd forget what show you were trying to see. I agree 100% that ads can disrupt and ruin the viewing experience. That's why I don't watch movies on broadcast TV. Actually, I don't watch broadcast TV that much at all and when I do it's usually PBS.
But now that I think about it, I should have posted:
"Ads no longer make me irate because I'm not paying cash for content access."
I think that would be a better statement =) |
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