At 7/23/2008 02:07, you wrote: >Which for the record is exactly typical for a 1-hour show. 40 minutes of >content and 20 minutes of commercials. The same is true for 30 minute >shows - 20 minutes of show plus 10 minutes of commercials. > >Joe M. > >Nate Duehr wrote: > > Saves a hell of a lot of time too... a 1 hour show took about 35-40 > > minutes to watch.
Didn't used to be that way. I noticed that the original Star Trek series episodes on DVD are ~52 minutes long. When watched on OTA TV now they're 42 minutes. I wonder when it was decided that more commercials per hour are acceptable? Bob NO6B
