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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | Have 30 sec skip...will watch With DVRs being popular and most (eg Comcast + TiVo) with 30 second skip...why bother paying?
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| Re: Have 30 sec skip...will watch That was my thought too. I'd have to be in the 83% group, if for no other reason than I've already bought the equipment to get around watching the ads.
Now if it was cut and dry, $1.99 or watch commercials.....well I might just rent more movies. 
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| said by oliphant  :With DVRs being popular and most (eg Comcast + TiVo) with 30 second skip...why bother paying? Enjoy it.
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I believe the 30 sec skip isn't going to be around much longer if the content providers get their way. I'd prefer product placement anyway to annoying ads.
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join:2000-05-11
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| Even my old Sony VCR has a 30 second "skip" function, so that's nothing new, either.
There's precious little on TV worth $1.99 anyway.
The bigger "pink elephant" is that Apple has managed to figure out yet another way to milk it's faithful cow herd. Who in their right mind would pay for this crap?
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@61.32.x.x | Whats free? You pay for the signal unless you use rabbit ears or you are an electronics buff and you still have to watch the ads. Then premium TV costs extra to watch the show without ads. | |
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Fort Myers, FL | Re: Have 30 sec skip...will watch So you're ok with paying twice for tv shows? | |
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA
| said by blaaah :
Whats free? You pay for the signal unless you use rabbit ears or you are an electronics buff and you still have to watch the ads. Then premium TV costs extra to watch the show without ads.
Being that the majority of programming I watch is OTA HD...that is pretty much what I use.
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join:2003-11-15
Ottawa, ON | Re: Have 30 sec skip...will watch omg you and your 1920x1080 make me sick.
even if you get like 5-6 OTA HD stations, they are probably decent channels with everything you would want to watch.
i wish there was OTA HD in ottawa, on. | |
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I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA
| Re: Have 30 sec skip...will watch I get way more than 6 OTA...closer to 15 or so. Major networks here run multiple HD channels and all of the networks have digital counterparts.
ABC here for instance has their regular network programming, an all news channel and a weather channel. Same with NBC. Our PBS channels run their local feed, plus a national feed. OTher PBS channels, operated by universities operate up to 6 channels each with various programming. Not everything HD of course but all digital and most pretty good.
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join:2003-09-11
Marietta, GA | Cost If I paid $1.99 for every show I watched, I'd be broke. | |
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join:2004-12-20
00000 | Re: Cost did they know what the internet was ?
i bet most of them had 56K lol they know how long it takes a crappy long time | |
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join:2005-02-23
Fort Myers, FL | Re: Cost I'll take the ads, thank you. | |
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join:2004-10-19
Bridgeport, CT
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2 edits | I'm trying to find this study(uh DUH it's right in front of me.)..
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Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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| Re: Cost said by packetscan :I'm trying to find this study.. I bet it hasn't been published for the world to see. I want to know the demographics used. If those 800 people are 75 % elderly with no internet.Of course it will show the results they have provided. »www.marketwire.com/mw/release_ht···d=105855
62% of survey respondents said they would prefer getting it for free with commercials, versus 17% who chose paying $1.99 without commercials. However, 21% are undecided.
In the coveted demographic of consumers aged 18-34, 68% chose free, ad-supported versus 26% favoring pay, and only 5% undecided.
The survey was conducted by telephone among 800 respondents in November 2005.
About Points North Group
Points North Group (www.pointsnorthgroup.com) provides research and advisory services to media companies, media-device makers and advertisers, giving them the strategic insights they need to win in the digital space. Points North Group is led by the former president of Jupiter Research, Peter Storck.
About Horowitz Associates, Inc.
Horowitz Associates, Inc. is a market research and consulting firm, led by Howard Horowitz, with a 25-year track record of custom and syndicated primary consumer research on television and digital media.
It appears from the above that younger viewers(18 to 34) supported ads and free but had many less undecided.
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join:2004-10-19
Bridgeport, CT
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Logan 5
Some people go WAY over the top
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-25
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| said by TKJunkMail : For that same price I can get the Comcast Platinum pkg and have access to every premier network, plus OnDemand, plus 2 DVR's, plus high speed internet. And with the DVR I can skip all the commercials. You sure about that about the Comcast PVR? I have the Comcast PVR Box and it skips nothing....you can fast forward through the commmercials but you cannot skip them.
Unless of course you are talking about a TiVo Solution but your post is not clear on that point. | |
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Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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| Re: Cost said by Logan 5 :said by TKJunkMail : For that same price I can get the Comcast Platinum pkg and have access to every premier network, plus OnDemand, plus 2 DVR's, plus high speed internet. And with the DVR I can skip all the commercials. You sure about that about the Comcast PVR? I have the Comcast PVR Box and it skips nothing....you can fast forward through the commmercials but you cannot skip them. Unless of course you are talking about a TiVo Solution but your post is not clear on that point. The Dct 6412 remote can be programmed with a 30 sec skip and using macros multiple 30 sec skips. I go thru 3 or 4 min commercial breaks in a couple secs.
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Some people go WAY over the top
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join:2001-05-25
The WasteLAN
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| Re: Cost said by TKJunkMail :The Dct 6412 remote can be programmed with a 30 sec skip and using macros multiple 30 sec skips. I go thru 3 or 4 min commercial breaks in a couple secs. Ahhhh. thanks for the info. /me goes on the internet to look for this feature... | |
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join:2005-02-02
New York, NY | With so much craps on TV, they should PAID me to watch it.:D | |
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join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| said by Ga Dawg :If I paid $1.99 for every show I watched, I'd be broke. About the same if you bought the series DVD of any show for one season. But the DVDs give you more.
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DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey | the ads producers are the problem Ads were at one time were entertaining, now there are stupid, racist, and have political undertones, and thats just for a cereal commerical. I miss the chanel number 5 commericals.
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join:2001-01-26
Derry, NH
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| Ad driven TV A reasonable price would be the rental cost of the show. For series in which several episodes are included per DVD when published, the cost per episode should be the DVD rental cost divided by the number of episodes. In the USA this would be under 50 cents each in most cases.
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Curious
Thanks
Premium
join:2001-10-07
Quincy, MA
| A If I was an ad company, what I would do is have you can pay 2 dollars per show OR pay a 5 dollar sign up fee and then only 1 dollar after that. Therefore, in the end the user will save AND the subscriper will keep on watching the TV show to use the 5 dollars regardless if they like it that much or not. | |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
Premium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
·Cox HSI
·Speakeasy
| PBS Coulda Told You That They had to beg and plead for money to put on the types of programming that there are now entire stations for (A&E, Discovery, etc.)
People are fine with paying, so long as they don't know they're paying.
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It Is Almost Fast
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Sacramento, CA
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| ad driven.. hmmm..
I'd take em any way as long as a) it's free b) can be used in MY player of choice (includes using a normal video codec like DivX, XviD, etc..) The commercials can then easily be edited out if desired.
Until that happens, I'll stay with sharing with my close friends thru BT, thank you very much.
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Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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| Re: all you can eat? WTF? You mean, something that would make sense? Oh hell no! 
LOL!
It sounds doable to me, but the "content" providers will never go for it!
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footballdude
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join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO
| Re: I could see this for sports. said by FenglerF1 :The only way I could see this working would be for sports; like golf, football, racing, and baseball or basketball. The major sports have been trying to figure out a way to go pay-per-view for a long time. People are just too used to getting the games for free. Remember when NBC put the Olympics on pay-per-view and charged about $200 for it? There was also a season or two when all of the NHL playoff games were on pay-per-view only. Turns out nobody wanted to pay to watch it at home so droves of people showed up at their local bar to watch the games. | |
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Premium
join:2001-12-29
Westland, MI
| Availability of Free (w/ ads)? said by »www.multichannel.com/article/CA6···nid=2226 :
Telephone interviews with 800 consumers found that 62% of respondents would prefer to get a favorite TV show they might have missed with commercials, rather than paying $1.99 for the download. Only 17% said they would rather pay the $1.99.
Between itunes and Google, there are some shows that I might of missed that I can view without ads for $1.99. I am a little lost regarding where I can view a show that I missed, with ads, for free (barring the pink elephant reference). Short of getting into torrents, does a place exist where I can view missed shows with ads for free? If not, the basis of the survey seems moot. Unless someone is in the wings planning to offer free IPTV... | |
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herb77
join:2005-02-23
Fort Myers, FL | Re: Availability of Free (w/ ads)? I wonder why the network just don't stream the shows on their websites with the ads in place.
Then again all the networks own their own cable channels. Why not just re-air it on cable?
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Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
hiatus
| Ad-driven is good for one reason... You can do stuff during them... In those 3-4 minutes of ads, you can easily do either 1) run to the can after doing the funny dance in your chair, 2) get another snack/drink/coke/water/beer or 3) get in a quick smoke (if you smoke)... Of course with TiVo, you can pause at an ad, do all of that, and fast forward to the show. | |
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Varlik
Without Honor You Will Never Be Free
Premium
join:2002-01-06
Anderson, SC
2 edits | $1.99! $1.99! Are you out of your mind? Outrageous, I think that I'll wait till the box set comes out if I want something bad enough. | |
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google2
join:2004-02-04
South Beloit, IL
clubs: | DVD I prefer DVD over standard TV or episode downloads. If it's a regular TV series that I like, I'll likely buy the DVD box set. Downloading episodes for a fee is of no interest to me if the show is on DVD or will be soon. | |
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