Wasn’t the point of paying for TV access so you wouldn’t be forced to endure commercials?
Did you ever notice many stations seem to be syncing commercials now?
Funny. The whole benefit of watching pre-recorded is to avoid commercials. I skip them any way.
If they are going to shove their damn commercials down our throats we need to pass a law so that they’ve got to put all of the commercials at the beginning or end of the show or movie, it would piss them off but hey then I can could watch more then two minutes of a movie without having to watch 5 minutes of commercials.< /s>
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It is not Dish’s fault that the broadcast companies of today are too stupid to realise what was obvious to broadcast companies in the 1920s.
I just got this Hopper whole-home DVR from Dish. So much better than cable! I love it, and the commercial-skipping is one major reason.
I wonder if the Hopper works better than the same feature on my old ReplayTV. It worked most of the time, but occasionally skipped part of a show especially if the scene got dark and quiet for dramatic effect.
‘could destroy its business model’
I watch many things via Netflix, because I hate watching 20 minutes per hour of commercials. The same commercials. Over and over and over.
I also record (DVR+HD) many programs just so I can watch them later with the capability of fast forwarding through the commercials. The same commercials. Over and over and over.
The easiest, simplest and best solution is to wait a year and rent the show on Blu Ray. No commercials, chapters added, and great PQ and audio.
I don’t watch much TV, but I would not get one of these.
Mostly because some of the commercials are better than most TV!
I mute the commercials when watching live TV.
The wife of a friend of mine works in the TV commercial industry - she winces like I just kicked her every time I do it.
I find that amusing!
Is there a statute that commercials must be watched?
I’m waiting for a DVR that will reach out and slap network executives and advertising people upside the head.
Some might remember when CATV was strictly a license to steal. Back in those days one of the CATV providers was sued by WGN for stealing their signal and stripping out WGN’s commercials and replacing them with their own.
WGN lost that suit, as I recall, don’t know if there has been other cases that might have overturned that.