Re: Let the kudos fall where they may

Crap. Commercials have ruined network television, which is one reason I don't watch any more except for a news program now and then. Even during a show, little ads for coming programs popup in the corners and along the bottom of the screen. It's an insult to the actors and the show. There's a heavy, dramatic moment in the show, and suddenly a little dancing clown pops up in the corner doing something funny. Anyone who can put up with that kind of mutilation has a cast-iron brain.

And if they start cramming many more commercials at the beginning of my netflix discs, that I can't zoom past, I'm gonna stop those also.

Sorry dude, but if you dont think networks will adjust and still make revenue you are dreaming.

Content creators just need to get more creative.

Times are changing so they can change or die standing in the mud.

Re: Networks did it to themselves

Torrents are much easier; commercials already edited out, station logo watermark usually blurred out, crawls get cropped. Any show with any kind of ratings usually hits the web a few hours after airing. With RSS feeds, new shows are automatically downloaded and waiting. Best DVR there is.

Re: Let the kudos fall where they may

You can't force people to watch ads.
Dish or DirectTV never skipped 1 ad. Only the end users skipped ads which cannot be stopped.
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Networks did it to themselves

In the 1960s, there were some 9 minutes an hour in commercials. Now it is double that at 18, PLUS product placements...some horribly obnoxious like Fox does (I remember Ford Sync in Fringe...they were beyond lame and actually were disruptive to the flow of the story). Now you see it with Microsoft Surface on a lot of shows such as Under the Dome.

There are so many commercials that some networks like TBS have to run the end credits of one show during the beginning credits of another so you have to watch the first 20-30 seconds of Big Bang in a microscopic window. On other basic cable networks the breaks are so long that you forget what you are watching.

You can only do that to consumers so long before they find a way to avoid it. Just like web ads...if web ads were unobtrusive banners instead of annoying flickering page moving flash powered abominations you wouldn't see some widespread use of ad blocking.

Network dumb-Fs...you did this to yourselves.
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Re: Let the kudos fall where they may

»www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new···y-awards

TV AND FILM STREAMING SERVICE Netflix has won its first two Emmy awards for its original TV series House of Cards.
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards event was held in the US on Sunday, a week ahead of the Primetime Emmy Awards, and it looks like Netflix was the talk of the evening.
Political thriller House of Cards became the first online-only TV show nominated for an Emmy, having scored nine nominations in July, and it has now become the first online-only series to win big at the awards.
Netflix's first win of the night was in the Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series category, with House of Cards besting Downton Abbey, Homeland and Game of Thrones for its stellar cast, which includes Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara and Corey Stoll.

Try again home boy.

No. Ads do not pay for the content that I want to watch. The re-transmit fees pay for what I want to watch. If I choose to fast forward over the commercials, its because I could care less about boner pills and that nasty yogurt that is supposed to make my intestines work better.
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