01-08-2005, 05:32 PM | #31 | |
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01-08-2005, 05:46 PM | #32 |
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I've seen some American talkshows, and it looks as if you get commercials every 5 minutes there... I really feel sorry for you. Here in Sweden we get them maybe every 15 minutes, sometimes less in popular shows like Friends. That annoys me anyway... They used to also be much louder than the shows, but now that's illegal so I don't get a shock every time there's a commercial break.
But what really ticks me off are the cinemas. If it says the film starts at 8 pm, then it should start at 8 pm, and not 8:15 pm after all the commercials... I'm okay with some trailers, in case some people are late, but I did not pay to see commercials. Going to the cinema is too expensive anyway... If I'm going to pay that much, I don't want commercials.
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01-08-2005, 05:51 PM | #33 |
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Try watching live coverage of the Worldseries, you'll go nuts. I wish they'd air it in delay of, let's say 10-15 minutes, that way they can let all the commercials out. I love watching baseball, but the commercials have made me fall asleep during a game more than once.
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01-08-2005, 05:57 PM | #34 |
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wow how i love to hate my country
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01-08-2005, 06:02 PM | #35 |
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I never fast forward through the adverts...
I just press the menu button and skip them outright. *Sheesh* [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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01-09-2005, 07:38 AM | #36 |
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We have a great government funded national radio station around here. It's alternate so you don't have to deal with the popular crap, and it has absoloutly no ads, and it is just great. I can't deal with the other radio stations around, their breaks from constant advertistments by the occasional song, and those songs being "black pop" (r&b) and rap and horrible other things, it's our local sell out station.
We have a few good ones though, another one being one for older music, and however it does have a lot of advertising it is pretty good. Anyway, for tv, well you get ads, that's why it is free. but why should you be forced to watch ads? that doesn't make sense. But are they talking about DVDs that have been rented or bought? |
01-09-2005, 12:25 PM | #37 |
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I can't skip or Fast Foward the ads on my DVD player, too.
No, I think it's the movies DVD that have locked the ads, not my player. It's the same thing anyway...
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01-09-2005, 01:40 PM | #38 | |
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But my wife was the one who discovered this same trick, that hitting the "Menu" button simply bypasses the ads and allows you to go straight to the movie. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] I also agree that I DO have the RIGHT to SKIP the ads on any movie if I actually BUY a copy of it.
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01-09-2005, 01:54 PM | #39 |
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*Wonders how many DVD players are being sent back to the shop they were purchased from by people demanding a refund*
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