openbox9Premium
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Re: Fed up said by pnh102:If the OP is paying for access to the infrastructure then why is it problematic if he wants to skip commercials? Because infrastructure access isn't access to content.said by pnh102:Everyone who pays for cable TV is paying to watch the commercials. There's nothing morally wrong with skipping over them just like you would skip over the bland parts of any other programming that you don't wish to watch. Except content providers sell ad space to pay for the cost of producing content. As in-line ads become less and less relevant due to DVRs and "30 second skips", the content owner will make up the loss somewhere. Morally wrong? No. Just don't complain when content prices continue skyrocketing. |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by openbox9:Because infrastructure access isn't access to content. Sure it is. If I am not paying for Cable TV then I certainly cannot watch commercials on cable TV stations no more than I could watch programming on cable TV stations.
said by openbox9:Except content providers sell ad space to pay for the cost of producing content. As in-line ads become less and less relevant due to DVRs and "30 second skips", the content owner will make up the loss somewhere. Morally wrong? No. Just don't complain when content prices continue skyrocketing. But cable TV prices continue to skyrocket. This just proves that ads do nothing to control the price of content at all.
As for me, I got tired of this BS and dropped all Cable TV entirely. OTA and Netflix are working great.
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | Of course, even if the DVR suddenly disappeared tomorrow we would only see more ads.
Cable channels where supposed to have less advertising than network and they have several times more. a 2hr film on TNT might be placed into a 3hr time slot and have content cut so they can get more ads in.
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