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300gb hasn't been a reasonable number for years now, and with more people leaving cable, this is clearly an attempt to monetize cord cutters further. Disgusting company.
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>> Perhaps if cable were referred to as 'a curated platform of best video content, being streaming 24/7', the conception would change? But the high quality content (when there is any) on cable ends up on extra channels that require you to pay more. IMHO TV was better OTA than on cable. You had a small number of local channels and they had to compete for eyeballs. Content was much better. Cable provides a way to shove…
> IMHO TV was better OTA than on cable. You had a small number of local channels and they had to compete for eyeballs. OTA TV still exists and it's not bad. $15 for an antenna and I'm getting about 40 channels in Albuquerque.
But seriously...
I don't mind TV on a schedule SOMETIMES (Walking Dead for example was worth catching on Sunday Night... with the following Talking Dead.)
But a majority of the time, I'm doing this or that and want to catch something on my on time.
I'm not 100% against commercials, personally... but the extreme to which they went - both on TV and Online - has pushed me to be almost militantly AdBlock'ish.
If Netflix (and similar) can bring sanity back to it, all the better.
The REASON cable TV caught on initially decades ago was the promise of cutting out ads. There were NO ads on Cable TV initially.
> cable channels have actually sped up re-runs to get two minutes more of advertising per show. Wow. It's like a reverse TiVo, fast forward through the content to show more ads.
I wonder whether netflix et al will introduce ads once cable is dead and the VoD market is saturated. After all, they too want to increase their profit at any point in time.
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2 points. I won't speak for myself, but from what I've gathered from friends: 1. A lot of people seem to like video ads. Movie ads specially tell you 'whats hot', and general ads put you 'in the loop' so to speak. I've tried to install ABV for a couple of people who won't let me because they actually like ads (as in youtube, not the shiny bright popups). This may be true for more people than HN crowd would assume. 2.…
Number 2 is true and very frustrating. I'd like to have a Netflix channel option. Sci-fi channel, horror channel etc. Did you ever call up someone else and tell them to turn to a channel then share in the same experience?
Aside from ads, freedom of choice with respect to just what you watch seem to be the other key motivator. With the capability of streaming and on-demand services, why would any consumer put up with having to choose any channel with a fixed programming schedule? I almost certainly don't want to watch what you're trying to sell. No other industry seems to operate in this manner. When it comes to books, games, music, et…
2 points. I won't speak for myself, but from what I've gathered from friends: 1. A lot of people seem to like video ads. Movie ads specially tell you 'whats hot', and general ads put you 'in the loop' so to speak. I've tried to install ABV for a couple of people who won't let me because they actually like ads (as in youtube, not the shiny bright popups). This may be true for more people than HN crowd would assume. 2.…
Don't care, let them get their trailers elsewhere. No more ads.
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> IMHO TV was better OTA than on cable. You had a small number of local channels and they had to compete for eyeballs. OTA TV still exists and it's not bad. $15 for an antenna and I'm getting about 40 channels in Albuquerque.
Yeah... but then you have to live in Albuquerque... I don't know if good TV is worth THAT price. /s But seriously... I don't mind TV on a schedule SOMETIMES (Walking Dead for example was worth catching on Sunday Night... with the following Talking Dead.) But a majority of the time, I'm doing this or that and want to catch something on my on time. I'm not 100% against commercials, personally... but the extreme to whic…
That's what a DVR is for. They don't actually make anything off the shelf for OTA in the US, but a bit of software and a DTV peripheral on a computer can provide this. I hear TiVo is still around, but not very popular.
I can count on one hand the number of times my children have sat down and watched network TV. They are 4 and 7 years old. With ~15 minutes of commercials per hour, I've probably saved them from watching thousands of commercials, which I think is a good thing.