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Originally Posted by Apache
I too enjoy reading during commercials.
Apache
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Yabbut, doesn't it interrupt your flow? I can pick up something I'm reading, say a reference book, sure, especially were I stuck with Network commercial breaks (4+ minutes) but on freaking "Hulu Plus" (the name just SLAYS me), they're 30 seconds. Or 60. Maybe 90, if it's a hot show and they're going wild, but they're usually 30 seconds. Hell, it takes me nearly that long to pick up my Kindle or Nook or whatever and wake it up, figure out where on the page I'm on, etc.
I realize that bitching about 30-second long commercials sounds daft, but
it's the bloody principal of the thing. This is crap that was on, OTA, for naught, sometime previous. On PUBLICLY-owned airwaves, that the networks get for FREEBS. Our bandwidth, mind you, for which they pay NOTHING. Then, the show: it's a
RERUN. Not "encore presentations," or whatever idiotic spin word they'll use next. They're not even giving us the courtesy of showing it in
advance of when it will air for FREEBS. And when it WAS aired, the then-commercials were easily skipped when recorded. AND,
we're PAYING for this.
URGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHG. Yes, yes, I know it's a mere $8. But it simply pisses me off that we've become such sheeples that we just meekly go along with whatever the great opiate-dealers will hand out--"here, take our commercial content and you'll bloody well watch it." IT makes me think I should subscribe to that whatsits...Playon, or...? (Diap, you have that, don'tcha?) One of those Roku channels, that has a recorder, effectively. JUST for the privilege of whacking the Hulu-mercials.
Of course, happily, I'll be done with that BBC show I'm watching, and then I can just take the damn thing off the ROKU, so I'll stop being aggravated about it. I like some of the shows that I've found on it...but between their cavalier attitude about closed-captioning to the commercials...yoish.
Back to the actual topic: I've never watched anything on MTV, after the mid-80's or so. Yes, I know, I'm practically antiquated or something. Is it likely to be awful? My theory is, any network that's promoted those people--the Kardashians, right? Isn't that where those folks are?--can't be good.
Hitch