I appreciate those footnotes that say "1 of 3 ads remaining" because it gives me the opportunity to decide if I can run to the kitchen or bathroom, like it was the 1980's and most commercial breaks were 4x30 seconds (2 minutes).
On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 1:10 PM Marti Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > We have been streaming some older programs on Prime, and sadly, they have > the ads roughly halfway through. Sometimes it was only 30 seconds, but > then it got to where it said, "Ad 1 of 2" and there was a countdown clock > showing how many seconds were left of the minute or so of commercials. > We found it distracting enough to grudgingly pay the extra money for > ad-free. > > ~Marti > > On Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 12:49:00 AM UTC-6 PGage wrote: > >> That’s good to know. If I start running into in-episode ads I will go >> ad-free. >> >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> >> On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 at 5:45 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> “Hazbin Hotel” actually had no preroll ads, but did have one 15-second >>> ad in the middle of each episode (at a natural-ish break point). I wonder >>> if Amazon is doing some A/B testing on ad placement. >>> >>> >>> On Feb 3, 2024, at 3:33 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> As promised, ads started this week on Amazon. I started and finished “Mr >>> and Mrs Smith over last few days (2 thumbs up, so much better than the >>> movie) and found the ads to be just this side of tolerable. They do not >>> interrupt the program, and there is only 1 or 2 of them at the start of >>> each episode, mostly (not only) for Amazon stuff, nothing too obnoxious. >>> >>> It may get worse, as I am prepared for them to try to slowly increase >>> the number of ad minutes, but for now will probably continue to save the >>> $4/month. >>> >>> It does rob the viewer of one of the main pleasures of streaming, for me >>> anyway, which is to go directly into the next episode without interruption. >>> I wonder if there is less marathoning with ad supported streaming? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJcNzm35Wh9iye0oCQ0mXqLYp5Vp8vELq9rmy02C5AHXA%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJcNzm35Wh9iye0oCQ0mXqLYp5Vp8vELq9rmy02C5AHXA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/98783362-0F6A-410A-B722-B5348F3C154A%40ellwanger.tv >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/98783362-0F6A-410A-B722-B5348F3C154A%40ellwanger.tv?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b28520c6-e685-408a-a555-ac63332eed09n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b28520c6-e685-408a-a555-ac63332eed09n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BrXWx0c7bCpNKXYYd2zDXHphSrPCz6CFS32EdSXZu8Vzw%40mail.gmail.com.
