Adverts On Television
They were discussing this on BBC Breakfast this morning, so I gave them my four-pennyworth.
I must be the only person, who’s not seen any of Downton Abbey.
The reason, is I don’t watch adverts. So when football is on ITV and BBC Radio 5 Live, I listen to the radio.
When I moved to London, I had to cancel my old Sky subscription. They asked, if there was anything would make me resubscribe in my new house. I said, jokingly, a subscription without ads at an extra cost. They said I wasn’t the first to say that.
Shoot the meerkats!
Until I get the no-advert Sky option, I’ll continue to watch and listen to the BBC.
The Anonymous Widower 
I never watch the adverts. All programmes we watch are recorded on the PVR, even if we are watching them at the time of broadcast. This allows us to pause the viewing, stop in the middle (e.g. To answer the phone, make a cup of tea), do something else (e.g. go to bed), start watching when we are ready, skip adverts (we leave 20 minutes from the start to allow for this), and rewind to bits we missed, didn’t hear, didn’t understand, or we just want to see again. There is now a PVR in the USA that skips adverts automatically, and the company producing it is being sued by the commercial channels. I think TV as we currently know it will end in the next 10 or 20 years to be replaced with a multitude of services streamed into our homes on demand so that we can watch what we like when we like, but we will have to pay for it. The cost might be very low for low cost, popular programmes, however films and quality series will need to cost more. Subscription services might survive, and the BBC might be one of these.
Only time will tell what actually happens, but I for one will be pleased to see the end of the bloody adverts.
Comment by John Wright | May 30, 2012 |
My television viewing is probably different to yours. I only watch and listen to news, sport and the occasional documentary like the Tube or Michael Portillo. If I miss the latter, it’s iPlayer, which is built into my BT Vision system.
As to streaming, I’ve recently been watching the torch relay from the BBC’s web site. Riveting at times and fascinating most of it. That is free, except I’ve now gone over BT bandwidth limit. All of a fiver.
I agree streaming will be the way to go. In fact, I have a feeling that my mobile phone signal round here suffers from streaming, as people watch all sorts of things, like the cricket on the great number of buses that pass.
I don’t think I’ve watched any fiction, since I moved here, except at the theatre or the cinema.
Comment by AnonW | May 30, 2012 |