5 May
2010
5 May
'10
10:05 a.m.
On May 5, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:
You're kidding, right?
Not really. I felt it hypocritical to complain about advertising
if you're grabbing shows without paying for them.
Well of course I would never do that. But if I did, it's not
hypocritical at all. I like Battlestar Galactica. I don't like
commercials telling me what to buy. I watch what I like, and don't
watch what I don't like. That's really all there is to it.
I haven't
had TV reception capability at home since about 1995. I
download those very few shows (mostly geeky stuff like Star Trek
and
Stargate) that I want to watch. I'll be damned if I'm going to
PAY for
someone to run an advertising pipe into my house.
Just curious if you PAY for the shows you download. My main sources of streaming entertainment are netflix
and hulu,
and I don't mind the advertising on hulu because it's usually of
the "2 minutes at the beginning and then here's you're entire show"
variety, or 30 seconds at each break instead of 3 minutes at each
break, which I feel is acceptable for the convenience of watching
whatever I want whenever I want.
That's not bad at all, at least when compared to standard TV
nowadays. It's a constant stream of advertising lightly peppered
with a little bit of program material, the vast majority of which is
drek.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL