On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 8:45 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the one hand, I just despise commercials, and pay on Hulu and Paramount > to avoid them. IMDb apparently does not even offer a premium, commercial > free option. I hate it. Buy, not as much as I hate the horrid Peacock, so > either the ads are less obnoxious, or there are fewer of them. OTOH, they > have a pretty decent lineup of classic shows (is Redemption their first > original?). > > Is there a reason that insisting on an ad supported model is better > financially than at least offering a subscription model? It kind of feels > to me like someone is trying to seduce me back into accepting commercials > as a fact of TV watching life, maybe hoping that will get me to watch > broadcast TV ads again (not bloody likely). >
I think everybody's still trying to figure their business models out. When DVRs came out they quickly became popular because viewers could skip through commercials as well as watch whenever they had the time. Pirated video is commercial free. Streaming channels know that there is a limit to how many subscriptions people will shell out for and they're trying to create a free model with cheaper programming. I agree that at some point the commercial load will be a deterrent. I was looking through the Pluto movies recently and came across Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America. On the Pluto channel it had a 5 hour slot. I saw it decades ago, want to see how it holds up, and found out it's a 4 hour movie. Which is an hour's commercials to watch it. Pluto also has an On Demand section and I looked for the movie there. It also shows a 5 hour run time which means I have no interest in watching it that way. -- 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/CAJE-FiEQWS9X9Cx0vvNvu1%3DV8meRqv7O_C0L01bqa_MSK16RTw%40mail.gmail.com.
