I used to like TV but now, because of the saturation of ads, it's practically impossible to watch...Why would anyone spend 3 hours to watch a 90 minute movie when you can rent the dvd for two bucks ? How can they justify having more ad time than program time ??? Do they really expect people keep watching ad after ad after ad??? It's all about greed.

I've been using this thing called MythTV. It detects ads and skips them but you have to be a bit of an egg head to get it to work. There's another egg head on here, Formula Nova?, who will tell you the same thing.

theDoctor said...

Richiefish said...

Ixx(]..Why would anyone spend 3 hours to watch a 90 minute movie when you can rent the dvd for two bucks ? How can they justify having more ad time than program time ??? Do they really expect people keep watching ad after ad after ad???

stupid people watch television

stupider people subscribe to television

the stupidiest people watch a movie on tv they have seen before, which now goes for three hours containing 90 miutes of advertising.

don't watch it and hopefully it will go away

stupid people call people stupid.

theDoctor said...



stupid people recognise stupid people as stupid

(who watch television)

i rest my case.

i only watch docco's, english comedies, and the occasional good film.

all raped from the interweb

I NEVER WATCH AUSTRALIAN TV

current affairs are maintained from seabreeze chat room topics and toilet wall scribblings.

I get most of my video jollies from iView on the ABC website

The Wire is my current favourite. The series is set in "Bodymore, Mudderland".

The ABC website seems so much easier to navigate than the commercial stations or even SBS.

If I had a business and was thinking how to spend my advertising budget, it wouldn't be TV. I hope most viewers are channel hoppers like me. As soon as an advert comes on the channel I am watching I jump to another and with the extra few channels you can normally jag a couple of minutes of viewing, evern though we all know the TV stations do their best to line up the ads. I also treat it as a bit of a challenge to see how close I can judge the end of the commercial and am getting pretty good at it, (I know, you are all thinking, get a life). I don't watch a lot of telly, however the small amount I do watch is selective and I don't like it ruined by loud, mindless, dumb adverts. So all you companies wasting big bucks on TV ads, try the newspapers.

Thats why they invented TIVO. Once you go TIVO you will never go back, best thing ever.

Stupid is as stupid does - Forrest Gump

Gizmo said...


The revenue bases for networks have diminished of recent years with multi channeling, and the Internet, clients only have so much money to spend and they are spreading it a little thinner these days across all media.

Completely untrue. With the advent of multi channeling it is now attracting new business' that previously never looked at TV because TV wasn't providing a defined enough market for them. Look at ONE HD, sporting companies can now advertise 24 hours a day rather than previously only getting a couple of hours on the weekend.

As far as stations lining their commercial breaks up, that would be considered collusion and break a couple of rules.

There is no more adverts on TV now than 10 years ago. Every commericla station is required to have 13 minutes of advertising per hour. During elections this can go up to 14 mins an hour. During sport it is a different story, cricket only has 8 minutes.

The fact remains that TV reaches more people than pretty much every other medium. Newspaper circulation is dwindling across the world, as by the time the news is collected, printed and distibuted its old news.

I did watch a lot of tele once.... now though I waste my time reading some of this stuff.
At least I get to improve my typing skills [ and my speeling ]

hills said...

TiVo is awesome!

oh Yeah!
life is better with TiVo!

+1 tivo

^^^
Perhaps the stations are using 'averages' - where daytime TV gets 8 or 9 min of adverts/hr - whereas peak viewing tim (6pm-11pm) gets 22min ads/hr!!! (well that's what it seems like).

That's why I like the interwebs and channel bt...

longwinded said...

What get's me is the staggering of shows. Back when we had 4 channels, the programs finished on the hour or half way through it. Now I keep missing the start of my doco's cause the other half wants to watch the last 4 minutes of her sit-com.

let's all find something more fulfilling to do, after the news most nights I find another activity. if no-one is watching the stations might get the message. Reminds me of a quote from Groucho Marx who said " I find television very educational, when someone turns it on, I go to the next room and read a book"

surf4fun, if what you are saying you are obviously a little closer to the $ end of the TV networks than I am.
I'm involved in the technicial / production and Outside Broadcasts of TV & Radio industry.