People still watch TV?
You got to be kidding me. It has been 15 years of no TV.
Isnt it child abuse to allow your kid to watch almost 2 weeks of their waking lives in a year on ads?
Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year
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#402Meanwhile in the UK... there tends to be a lot less advertisements on TV, and when shows from the US are played, there are points where they left room for an ad-break, which isn't used. For the ultimate in no-advertising, you just watch a BBC channel. Apparently there is a limit of 9 minutes of advertising per hour according to this document from the regulator... https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadc…
My kids know about three channels
"Bbc" (watching "do they know" at the moment) "Amazon" "Netflix"
We went to the cinema to watch Paddington last month. They had barely any idea what the adverts before the film were.
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#403Meanwhile in the UK... there tends to be a lot less advertisements on TV, and when shows from the US are played, there are points where they left room for an ad-break, which isn't used. For the ultimate in no-advertising, you just watch a BBC channel. Apparently there is a limit of 9 minutes of advertising per hour according to this document from the regulator... https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadc…
My kids know about three channels "Bbc" (watching "do they know" at the moment) "Amazon" "Netflix" We went to the cinema to watch Paddington last month. They had barely any idea what the adverts before the film were.
Do they still do adverts on DVDs of films? It was a pain because you couldn't skip them. Guess that's why stuff like Netflix is so popular...
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#404I have an iPhone, an Amazon Echo, and a Google Home device. I recently had to watch live TV because I was watching a sports game, and the number of ads that targeted my listening devices was obscene. Every other ad was either for the Echo or Home, or for something unrelated but mentioning 'Hey Siri, tell me about [product being sold]'. To me, it feels like it's an effort to subvert the always-listening/always-watchin…
>or for something unrelated but mentioning 'Hey Siri, tell me about [product being sold]'. What? Seriously? Commercials try to hijack your devices? Isn't this fairly clear-cut unauthorized access of a computer system, and therefore criminal?
Unauthorized access? Maybe if the commercial ordered something off Amazon using Alexa on your behalf.
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#405Father speaking here - kids are on youtube, being pushed way more commercials than ever before.
Isn't it you responsibility to push adblock in your kids? Firefox for Android can block ads... But yes, it's much harder with tablets and phones..
Yes, I'm pushing back. My statement was a response to the article, title of which suggests that "just by switching from TV to Netflix we reduce children's exposure to commercials". This statement is incorrect, as the kids are on YouTube anyways, so little to no savings are done here.
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#406Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those with a level of cultural awareness like mine, French Laundry seems to be a flash restaurant in Napa valley, California.
It's an AMAZING restaurant in Napa -- Thomas Keller's the chef and it's the culinary equivalent of an orgasm.
Is it really $310 per head?
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#407I accidentally watched some TV the other day. Having not seen any regular programming for at least a year, I was amazed at how much ... dumber it has become. Also, why did we sit through so many commercials for so long? It feel a little like a twilight zone episode, where we sit there watching a box telling us what to buy.
I suspect regular programming isn't getting dumber, the alternatives are just getting smarter. When I look at the crap I watched as a kid in the 80s (which included a good amount of 70s reruns), basically all broadcast TV today is far superior. But the competition for broadcast TV isn't "no competition" now, it's the Internet, and computer games, and Netflix. The entertainment industry has been blown wide open by the…
To be fair, how niche is Factorio compared with, say, Candy Crush, or Call of Duty Ultimate Warfare 7, or stuff like that.
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#408Earlier quoted context omitted.
…really? "Nerd minstrel show?" Ah yes, we poor nerds, overcoming centuries of repressive awkwardness and desk jobs.
He worded it harshly, but it's the horrid acting. I always thought if the producers didn't snag a young Penny, there would be no show today. She carried that show for years. And yes--I just liked looking at her, in the beginning. The actor who plays Sheldon might be the luckiest actor ever. (I like the guy, but just a awful actor. I don't think it's just the role either.) And Leonard. I don't get it, because he was s…
I think you just mistook your boner for Penny as a diving rod for good acting.
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#409Meanwhile in the UK... there tends to be a lot less advertisements on TV, and when shows from the US are played, there are points where they left room for an ad-break, which isn't used. For the ultimate in no-advertising, you just watch a BBC channel. Apparently there is a limit of 9 minutes of advertising per hour according to this document from the regulator... https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadc…
Afaik most countries in Europe have at least a couple of TV stations that are really restricted when it comes to commercials. Usually supported by the government and/or citizens. I remember that we could receive government funded Austrian ORF 1 in Germany. They usually showed the same movie as other German commercial TV stations at the same time but without ads. Saving around 1 hour per movie.
There also is (was?) a daily limit on advertising for german stations, even commercial. Thus barely any ads at night. Some shows even had to be classified as add due to heavy product placement, so we barely got any other adds that day.
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#410My parents would always agressivly mute commercials when i was a kid. I'm pretty glad they did.
Yeah, I also trained my kids from an early age to hit the mute button when a commercial comes on. Without that magic button we can't possibly watch live TV.