"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:i5ncg8$1bp...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> I don't know anything about print ads, or technology ads, but I wouldn't >> be surprised if modern TV ads are ineffective. They never seem to have >> anything to do with the product/service being offered...and those are the >> *good* ones... > > I wouldn't know, I ff over all of them.
I only rarely see them now. I don't have any of that DVR stuff (never thought it made sense to buy a device, as opposed to a service, on a subscription model), so not only do I get the increasingly irritating and patronizing commercials (I don't normally have a problem with commercials, just the irritating and patronizing ones, which are most of them these days), but I also get those ads that stations have injected *over-top* of the shows themselves as a backlash against DVRs (Which I don't even have! And I have to be punished anyway!) So I've just said "fuck them, and fuck playing fair, since they obviously aren't" and I only watch shows on library DVDs now, or if the libraries either don't have it or don't have it unscratched then downlaod (but not Hulu - fuck web browsers, fuck flash video, and fuck "TV on a PC"). So usually the only times I do see ads is when a roomate watches TV.