Alan Bourke wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:57:05 -0400, "Bill Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
I absolutely hate those n-thousand-time repeated commercials
that want to burn images into our minds.
In between the n-thousand-time repeated actual programme of course.
There have been ad skippers before, I think back in the days when a
genlock signal appeared about 30 seconds before ad breaks you could get
video recorders that would stop for the duration of the ads. IIRC the TV
companies spent big money stamping on it - can anyone confirm this?
The other thing that makes me want to machinegun the TV is DVDs which
have lots of unskippable ads and promos at the start, this seems
especially bad on kids' DVDs. Hello DVD manufacturers! I'm ripping your
DVDs here to get rid of your crap! Howdja like THEM apples?
Of course if we can skip ads they'll just become even more insidious.
That's why we have a BBC. The programs aren't always the most
interesting, but at least you don't have to worry about commercials.
Think of when the BBC and ITV went head to head in the world cup with
the same match. The BBC won about 3 to 1.
I prefer ripped DVD's anyway ;-)
Peter
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