TV Networks Say You're Breaking The Law When You Skip Commercials
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I dont watch TV anymore. It's almost nothing good on, and of all the commercials they are showing every 5 minutes.
I watch all of my shows I like on websites.
Oh come on, you already got unskippable commercials on practically every video on the internet, and you're whining about people trying to do a thing about it? Grow up.
[QUOTE=nikomo;36092480]You Americans have 15-minute commercial breaks?
Holy fuck.[/QUOTE]
I haven't watched TV much in the past... 4-5 years, but I've never seen a 15 minute commercial break. They're usually like 3 minutes long and happen every 8 minutes or so on a 30 minute show.
Commercial breaks during movies (not to be mistaken for shows) are REALLY BAD here in Australia. They somehow manage to ramp it up from the normal 4-6 minutes to a shocking 15 minutes. It fucking pissed me off when I was trying to watch Starship troopers, so much that I went down to the local DVD store and rented it faster than the movie was over.
[QUOTE=nemmises5;36094422]the "hub" has brought back transformers batman and [B]a few other[/B][/QUOTE]
elaborate.
Thank fucking god ISPs don't plaster ads while you're browsing internet. I personally find it really disgusting to pay tons for cable and get ads.
TV broadcasting stations should charge companies $2000 dollars per second for any commercial aired on their channel. The longer the commercial, the most expensive it will be.
Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where they skipped every commercial on TV and then Marge started having nightmares.
How the fuck is NOT watching something infringing copyright?
[QUOTE=BCell;36096320]TV broadcasting stations should charge companies $2000 dollars per second for any commercial aired on their channel. The longer the commercial, the most expensive it will be.[/QUOTE]Do you really want to watch Modern Warfare 93 ads all day long?
[editline]27th May 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=st_nick5;36096438]How the fuck is NOT watching something infringing copyright?[/QUOTE]
Copyright?
Good thing I haven't watched T.V. in 2 years.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;36096465]
Copyright?[/QUOTE]
It says in the article they're accusing Dish of 'inducing' copyright infringement.
I thought the entire premise of digital video recording [I]is[/I] to have the ability to fast forward through commercials in programs you set to record.
I don't see why all of these major broadcasting companies are coming out now and demanding it to be illegal. DVR technology has been around since the late 1990's with TiVo, and they haven't bothered saying anything about it until now.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;36093800]As it currently stands, there's ~18 minutes of commercials per hour of programming. It's rather disgusting, actually.[/QUOTE]
and out of every one of those commercials, how many made you want to buy the product?
makes me want to start engineering just to make and sell something people will actually use
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;36096465]Do you really want to watch Modern Warfare 93 ads all day long?
[editline]27th May 2012[/editline]
Copyright?[/QUOTE]
I'm talking about the advertiser, not the people watching the ad. The advertiser should only have a limited number of seconds to advertise their product. A minimum number of seconds should be 5 seconds long.
Also, skipping commercial should not be a crime
[QUOTE=Teh Zip File;36095317]I haven't watched TV much in the past... 4-5 years, but I've never seen a 15 minute commercial break. They're usually like 3 minutes long and happen every 8 minutes or so on a 30 minute show.[/QUOTE]
You people are full of shit. Whoever said there are 15 minute commercial breaks is exaggerating to a point of lunacy, Teh Zip File's estimate is more rational.
God almighty, the networks have a right to make money, and I respect that. Making commercial-skipping illegal is extremely excessive, but I respect their desire to curtail it in some way.
[editline]27th May 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=BCell;36099024]I'm talking about the advertiser, not the people watching the ad. The advertiser should only have a limited number of seconds to advertise their product. A minimum number of seconds should be 5 seconds long.
Also, skipping commercial should not be a crime[/QUOTE]
I don't know how you could mean a minimum.... Did you mean a maximum? What? You're proposterous.
haven't properly watched TV in about 4 years (haven't even owned one for 3 of those); feels good.
I've been avoiding TV so much, every time I do go back, watching a good show always has 10-20 minute long commercial sprees and that means the entire show is being paused for me.
Don't you guys get why they're so up in arms?
The shows aren't what you're supposed to be watching, get it straight and you'd know what TV is for
[QUOTE=Negrul1;36089108]What? Whereabouts do you live?
[editline]26th May 2012[/editline]
also BBC fuck yeah[/QUOTE]
BBC Fuck No. I don't see why I should have to pay a licence to own a TV to fund channels that I don't neccesarily even watch. Sure, if it was optional and a licence to access BBC channels then sure, but we get absoloutely no choice about it, if we so much as own a TV capable of viewing channels, BBC or otherwise (even Freeview), we have to pay for the licence, sure, it's only £145.50 a year, but it's not optional. The say you can use one for a games console or watching DVD's etc, but all it takes is them to say the possibility that you can use it to watch TV is present and you're hauled in to court.
[QUOTE=BCell;36096320]TV broadcasting stations should charge companies $2000 dollars per second for any commercial aired on their channel. The longer the commercial, the most expensive it will be.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure that's already how it works (not sure on how much it costs). More air time for your ad, you pay more. Companies just have oodles of money in their advertising budgets.
To be honest adverts are best for at start/end of a show and no other time. I get really bored of having to watch the same advert 4 times in a row whilst trying not to get interrupted - nothing spoils a horror movie more like throwing out an advert about life insurance where an old man reassures you that you'll receive a free pen for inquiring and that your loved ones will receive a lump sum of cash when you pass away.
And this is why I watch it online.
[QUOTE=BCell;36099024]I'm talking about the advertiser, not the people watching the ad. The advertiser should only have a limited number of seconds to advertise their product. A minimum number of seconds should be 5 seconds long.
Also, skipping commercial should not be a crime[/QUOTE]
So you want stations to earn a fuckton of money to show ads? I don't see how a consumer is winning here. You know advertisers who put ads on tv aren't exactly poor.
What I never understood is how people pay for premium channels like hbo and then put up with comercials on those aswell.
[QUOTE=zakedodead;36100874]What I never understood is how people pay for premium channels like hbo and then put up with comercials on those aswell.[/QUOTE]
I've literally never seen commercials on HBO, unless you're talking about those quick promotional clips at the end of everything which is aired for other programs on HBO. I think that's perfectly acceptable advertising.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;36099741]BBC Fuck No. I don't see why I should have to pay a licence to own a TV to fund channels that I don't neccesarily even watch. Sure, if it was optional and a licence to access BBC channels then sure, but we get absoloutely no choice about it, if we so much as own a TV capable of viewing channels, BBC or otherwise (even Freeview), we have to pay for the licence, sure, it's only £145.50 a year, but it's not optional. The say you can use one for a games console or watching DVD's etc, but all it takes is them to say the possibility that you can use it to watch TV is present and you're hauled in to court.[/QUOTE]
The way the BBC works with its licensing is total bullshit, if you even own a computer and use it to watch BBC iPlayer you need to have a TV license. Oh wait BBC, there's no [b]legal[/b] way to know if we're watching iPlayer or not so fuck yourself.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;36103893]I've literally never seen commercials on HBO, unless you're talking about those quick promotional clips at the end of everything which is aired for other programs on HBO. I think that's perfectly acceptable advertising.[/QUOTE]
Furthermore, they need a way to maintain a schedule. If a movie ends ten minutes before 5:30 when the next is scheduled, what are they [I]supposed[/I] to do?
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