Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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| Nickeled and Dimed to death.  The economy being what it is, there is not enough discretionary income to pay all of the corporate weasels, with their hands out, wanting to charge American Citizens for what was originally free. These clowns do not seem to realize that programming like cars loose value as they age. I might be willing to pay several dollars to see a program the first time, but to me its value has significantly decreased the second time the program is presented. If these nit whits think that they can charge customers big bucks to see the same crap over and over again they need to see a psychiatrist. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by Mr Matt:If these nit whits think that they can charge customers big bucks to see the same crap over and over again they need to see a psychiatrist. But look at the success of "Greatest Hits" and "Directors Cut" and "The Best of" permutations of the same stuff. |
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Ecwfrk
join:2001-03-02
Fort Smith, AR | reply to Mr Matt
I'm frankly amazed that with the prevalence of things like torrents and DVR time shifting decimating their traditional commercial advertising earning ability that Over The Air stations are still putting out any compelling content without resorting to obscene amounts of product placement. I half expect to hear on CSI at any time:
"What do we have Nick?"
"Well Catherine, it appears the victim was beaten to death by a can of delicious Campbell's Chunky Vegetable Soup, available this week at Walmart for just 98 cents a can."
"Wow Nick! That's 40 cents off the low everyday price! Let's get him loaded into a Hefty Steel Sack and take him back to the Crime Lab that's sponsored by Verizion and your local dairy farmer."
Quite frankly, the days of free TV are numbered. We used to get it free but in return we were bombarded with commercials. Now, we refuse to watch commercials unless they're on during the Superbowl but we're unwilling to accept the fact that if we want to skip the ads, we're going to have to pick up the tab that those ads use to pay. |
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