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Re: Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

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scrollaway wrote: post #24
sigzero wrote: post #6

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ALL shows have product placement. Some more blatant than others. You can't get around that.

Product placement in series and movies really break my heart, because it plain and simply taints the piece forever. When it's released, sure, okay, so you do your product placement and get some extra cash to finance the series. Fine. But now, your series which hopefully is good enough to still be watched 20 years, 30 years from now has characters randomly bringing up how they drive an Audi and did you see that builti…

On the other hand the cans of beans that had the word "Heinz" blacked out in 70s BBC programs are really distracting.

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shadyrudy wrote: post #221
gdilla wrote: post #36

If you have kids who watch netflix, it's interesting how they recoil in disgust at advertising interrupting a show. And it carries over to YouTube too - if they see pre-roll they skip as soon as possible. It'll be interesting when they're teens what kind of media related app will be the 'it' app for them

We dont have Netflix, but we have HBO. So my kids watch Sesame Street, Pinky Dinky Doo, etc. They won't watch anything on Cartoon Network because of the commercials. In face, my kids have zero tolerance for commercials now. We got YouTube Red because of the ads on iPad were out of control. It's insane the amount of commercials YouTube puts in a 10 minute clip of Busy Beavers, etc.

Since I'm a '92 edition, I grew up with Cartoon Networks. Back in the days of Ed, Edd and Eddy, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Scooby Doo, Road Runner and so on and I don't remember it having even half as much advertising as they do now. I wonder what changed.

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coding123 wrote: post #20
sigzero wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ALL shows have product placement. Some more blatant than others. You can't get around that.

There are a few shows like Chuck that were basically saved by blatant product placement. It's funny to watch - breaks the illusion for a moment - but knowing the story behind how it basically saved the show makes it worth it for the fans.

Oh man, Chuck was awesome! I'm adding it to the list of shows to re-watch.

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megaman22 wrote: post #97
bllguo wrote: post #81

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at least Lego is a reasonably healthy toy, right?

I'm a little disturbed how far in they've gone on the licensed content. But I'm a child of the 90s that grew up with the classic System themes; I guess kids aren't into non-Star Wars space, castle, pirate and Wild West Legos anymore.

Lego city is still popular, and playmobil do a large selection of various castles.

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isostatic wrote: post #438
Skye wrote: post #403

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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...

Not on the props pig one they watched in the car today - some unskippable logos and copyright warnings that annoy me and remind me why I rip dvds to the home NAS, but no adverts. Yet rarely watch dvds. I've noticed Amazon has adverts on their fire tv stick on some shows though, but we use the built in lg tv app which doesn't.

well from personal experience, Disney DVDs (used to) have adverts at the start trying to get you to watch every other Disney film every made, and they either blocked skipping or made it incredibly hard to skip to the start of the actual video.

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Feniks wrote: post #225

I've been almost entirely commercial/advertising free for years now. Not gonna lie, it isolates you from mainstream society a bit. Whether that is good or bad is debatable.

I still come out with advertising jingles from the 90s that embedded themselves in my conscious as a teenager. No idea if those jingles exist now - I did make a effort to watch the Christmas adverts, m&s, John Lewis, Tesco, bbc, Sainsbury's etc, on YouTube. I also make a conscious effort to look at movie trailers, and indeed let YouTube play past the first 5 seconds on trailers of films that I don't know about and look interesting.

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BowBun wrote: post #8

This would be fantastic news if the content was anything worthwhile. At the end of the day, I'm not sure I care whether the kid is watching commercials or some other inane show. It's still passive consumption. Personally, of course I want less commercials. But being able to consume more per minute isn't necessarily a good thing, IMO.

My kids watched a show his morning which explained where eggs came from, and what happens when they are heated - how the proteins change shape, how the outside heats faster than the inside, etc. Also how bread is made, both manually, then showed automated kneading (this is a show aimed at under 6s, so anything beyond proteins changing shape seems excessive)

Yes it's passive, but it's still better than brainwashing then to buy McDonald's

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whitepoplar wrote: post #27
Animats wrote: post #12

This is great. The next generation will view ads as abnormal.

I don't think ads will ever go away, so my main hope is that ad targeting gets so good that the industry is able to make the same amount of money (or less!) while showing 10x fewer ads. Humanity is paying a huge cost at the moment for inefficient ad placement.

Or make 10 times as much with the level of adverts people are apparently happy with now.

Which do you think is more likely?

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xxpor wrote: post #361
kaybe wrote: post #176

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I'd argue that news is not for kids, unless it is specifically tailored to them (eg the German public kids TV channel has special kids news (and no ads)). It is easier to learn about the world's problems from less explicit sources. News can be worse than horror films, which are at least known to be fictional.

I'm not really sure what you mean. It's actually frustrating how tame the news is, at least in the US. If they actually showed the effects of war, the public would be able to be more rational about the consequences. I actually grew up watching PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

I grew up watching newsround, which is aimed at 10-15 year olds. There's a massive difference between that and say the Ten oClock news, but there a massive difference between the one, six and ten.

I would expect the Ten to have far more in depth and gruesome stories than newsround. 10 year olds don't need to know the minutiae of human trafficking.

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thomastjeffery wrote: post #375
kccqzy wrote: post #366

> The average child watches 2.68 hours of television a day, or almost 980 hours a year That’s unusual. And it just reminds me of how different other people’s lives could be. When I grew up, no one in the family liked watching television. I still remember buying DVDs and watching those, but just not regular television programming.

That's the confusing thing about averages. My experience was on the other end of the spectrum: I watched TV quite a lot more growing up. I think it would be more helpful to have a min max and mode than a mean.

Median too. On average both Bill Gates, you and I are billionaires.
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