While I will tolerate some ads to see classic TV shows not otherwise accessible, I absolutely will not watch a movie with even one commercial in this day and age.
On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 7:50 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiEQWS9X9Cx0vvNvu1%3DV8meRqv7O_C0L01bqa_MSK16RTw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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/CAKGtkYJ1bVZ3WL6KLWBU07FeOijB1seviFzmcVxrJ7xfBMEi7Q%40mail.gmail.com.
