I hate commercials. Yes, it pays for most of the TV we watch but I don't want to be programmed to buy Nike or whatever. So here is what I do, it works reasonably well:
My method is founded on the idea that commercials flash images in one or two second bursts. First, hit mute, so you don't have to listen to them.
Second, if you close your eyes, and you are in a reasonably dark room, you can see the way the images flash even with eyes close. So I just do a bit of meditation or clear my mind, wait till the flashes go away, which is usually when the program starts up again.
I watched Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) on Spike tv the other day, I counted 19 commercials in a row, getting close to 50% commercials! That is the last time I watch movies there, it turns an hour and a half movie into nearly 3 hours.
I am going to email Spike TV and ask them why they bother putting up a movie at all, people will watch anything, so just go with 100 percent commercial and avoid all that litigation over movie rights!
Originally posted by sonhouseI just don't bother watching TV. Solved.
I hate commercials. Yes, it pays for most of the TV we watch but I don't want to be programmed to buy Nike or whatever. So here is what I do, it works reasonably well:
My method is founded on the idea that commercials flash images in one or two second bursts. First, hit mute, so you don't have to listen to them.
Second, if you close your eyes, and yo ...[text shortened]... thing, so just go with 100 percent commercial and avoid all that litigation over movie rights!
I just can't follow t.v when in the states, I'll never forget watching for the first time. It was a film that went to adverts before the opening credits had finished...' still makes me chuckle đ Another one that has crept into British t.v, on certain crappy channels, is going to an advert based upon the network having ads say every 30mins or whatever, so you'd get an advert appearing before someone had finished a sentence...mid way through it and not nicely timed at the end of it. This sort of practice just makes it annoying to watch in my opinion, so I'm inclined to just switch over now.
Or TIVO, there, you record the show in advance, watch it later, then fast forward through commercials. They say the TV people will be putting a stop to that in the future so we do it while we can.
I much rather watch movies on our big screen set, I don't really give a rats asss if it is DVD or bluray, super resolution is not such a big deal for me.
When you fast forward through commercials you cut your viewing time down 30 percent unless you get a greedy assshole network like Spike TV, then you cut down your viewing time in half.
