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Just for the record: I don't "meekly" go along with anything.  I just don't hate commercials. In fact, I quite often appreciate the break. I watched the commercials when the shows were first broadcast free OTA, and I watch the commercials now. Even before my last DVR conked out, I found fast-forwarding through commercials and trying to stop at the right spot much more tedious and hectic than just watching the commercials or tuning them out. |
Oh, c'mon, you know I wasn't talking about
YOU. Now you're just being obstreperous.
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I'm really not trying to be difficult, I just honestly don't get the "inalienable right to watch advertising-free televison" mentality (first-run, or rerun) that seems so prevalent in today's culture.
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See? Obstreperous. (Are too! Are Not! Are Too!...)
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I watch little enough TV that I could easily go commercial-free if I wanted to. I just don't care enough about them to bother. I've got bigger fish to fry.
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I guess my perspective is partly formed by having a spouse that vehemently hates them. Must run in the family; my sister's spouse is the same way. As Mr. Hitch has very severe tinnitus, we don't get a lot of "quiet time" here at the house, as he needs some type of sound to help drown it out. It was one of the
big compromises for me, when we decided to live together, because I never even had the damn thing on before we met, and he needs background sound nearly all the time. Having it going most of the day, even if it's tuned to news, just because we need the sound--yes, I get pissy about commercials, I guess.
HOWEVER, I do feel that
once you start paying for telly, there ought to be rhyme or reason to it. And I do think that there's something inherently wrong with recycled shows being charged for, as well as the robo-mercials. I would hazard a guess that that's the genesis of the "inalienable non-commercial TV" mindset, whether it's me or anyone else; if a network or whatever wants to make the content "free" to me, and slap commercials in there, fine. But once you start paying for it, (I mean, isn't this how the Cable stations got started? The whole IDEA of commercial-free TV?), you oughtn't have to suffer through commercials, paid announcements or anything else other than the content.
Just my $.02, FWIW. And yes, it's just one of my hot-buttons. (And, how many people are already paying for it once, through cable, or DirecTV, or Hughes, or whatever, and then paying for it AGAIN via Hulu? When's enough enough, for stations that are already not paying for the bloody bandwidth?)
Sorry, and back to the actual topic again:
MTV?? Do they have any non-reality TV shows, in the first place?
Hitch