When the adverts start yet again during your film/series:
When the adverts start yet again during your film/series:

Poll: When the adverts start yet again during your film/series:

Total Members Polled: 64

It doesn't bother you, you watch them anyway: 20%
You really like watching them: 3%
Annoyed, you change channels immediately: 77%
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Driller

Original Poster:

8,310 posts

301 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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I'm not a huge watcher of television but like to catch the odd film or comedy series from time to time. What drives me insane are the continual breaks so that I can be "marketed at".

I either end up watching a completely different program and then giving up or I just pack it in immediately and read a book or something.

It drives me mad when yet another overly friendly, smarmy or excited voice tries to convince me I have a problem and then offers me a solution to it.

It detracts from the film to the point that I just don't want to watch anymore.

Therefore these things appear to be a waste of time and money. But since they exist and these people are not stupid this cannot be the case. So it must just be me.

How do television adverts make you react?

Chim Chim

739 posts

228 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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Get Sky+ and then adverts are a thing of the past!

Orb the Impaler

1,881 posts

213 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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+1

V+ box in the bedroom, Tivo in the lounge. No adverts here. smile

illmonkey

19,567 posts

221 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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Sky+ it and watch with a 15 minute delay (for 1 hours viewing) then you can fast forward! smile

ol

2,387 posts

231 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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Did anyone watch Heros the other night? 1st ad break after 3 minutes! The credits hadn't finished!

AlexKP

16,484 posts

267 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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Driller said:
I'm not a huge watcher of television but like to catch the odd film or comedy series from time to time. What drives me insane are the continual breaks so that I can be "marketed at".

I either end up watching a completely different program and then giving up or I just pack it in immediately and read a book or something.

It drives me mad when yet another overly friendly, smarmy or excited voice tries to convince me I have a problem and then offers me a solution to it.

It detracts from the film to the point that I just don't want to watch anymore.

Therefore these things appear to be a waste of time and money. But since they exist and these people are not stupid this cannot be the case. So it must just be me.

How do television adverts make you react?
Unfortunately without them you either wouldn't get the programme made, or you would pay a helluva lot more for the channel subscription.

Necessary evil I'm afraid!

hornetrider

63,161 posts

228 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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ol said:
Did anyone watch Heros the other night? 1st ad break after 3 minutes! The credits hadn't finished!
Where are you watching that, Heroes is on the beeb!

2something

2,145 posts

231 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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illmonkey said:
Sky+ it and watch with a 15 minute delay (for 1 hours viewing) then you can fast forward! smile
Yup, it's perfect - you get to watch more quality (?) television in less time and can pause when you want to do something else.

Steamer

14,103 posts

236 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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I switch over when those new Stroke awareness adverts come on mad


idea Oh look, someone having a stroke - maybe they need a cup of tea and a slice of cake shout Of course I'm going to phone a frickin' ambulance!!




Driller

Original Poster:

8,310 posts

301 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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anonymous said:
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cazzer

8,883 posts

271 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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You need to add a "I use sky+" option.
I haven't watched an advert for months.
We record what we want to watch.
Watch it when we want.
And skip the adverts.

dpbird90

5,535 posts

213 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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cazzer said:
You need to add a "I use sky+" option.
I haven't watched an advert for months.
We record what we want to watch.
Watch it when we want.
And skip the adverts.
Yep same here, Sky+ FTW

TonyHetherington

32,091 posts

273 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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Same here, I genuinely haven't watched an advert for perhaps over a year?!

Watch programs 15 mins after they've started and fast forward or, as is more often the case, I don't really watch live tv - just sit down, record a week's worth of programs and then watch a recorded show when I do sit down.

I expect it's a big problem for sales of adverts on commercial channels now. Before Sky+ and V+ it was just computer nerds that did it, but now it's mainstream it must affect revenue.

Viper_Larry

4,364 posts

279 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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ol said:
Did anyone watch Heros the other night? 1st ad break after 3 minutes! The credits hadn't finished!
Heroes or Lost??? Heroes on BBCHD, no ads smile

ol

2,387 posts

231 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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hornetrider said:
ol said:
Did anyone watch Heros the other night? 1st ad break after 3 minutes! The credits hadn't finished!
Where are you watching that, Heroes is on the beeb!
Bah! I meant Lost!

ol

2,387 posts

231 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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Viper_Larry said:
ol said:
Did anyone watch Heros the other night? 1st ad break after 3 minutes! The credits hadn't finished!
Heroes or Lost??? Heroes on BBCHD, no ads smile
Good guess work there!

kambites

70,647 posts

244 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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Don't have a TV, so it's rarely a problem.

FourWheelDrift

91,792 posts

307 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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ol said:
hornetrider said:
ol said:
Did anyone watch Heros the other night? 1st ad break after 3 minutes! The credits hadn't finished!
Where are you watching that, Heroes is on the beeb!
Bah! I meant Lost!
Are they still lost? Haven't they all eaten each yet or at least built a raft?

Rawwr

22,722 posts

257 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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I just download everything I want to watch. I am quite an enormous nerd, though.

hornetrider

63,161 posts

228 months

Wednesday 4th March 2009
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FourWheelDrift said:
ol said:
hornetrider said:
ol said:
Did anyone watch Heros the other night? 1st ad break after 3 minutes! The credits hadn't finished!
Where are you watching that, Heroes is on the beeb!
Bah! I meant Lost!
Are they still lost? Haven't they all eaten each yet or at least built a raft?
Well, I haven't really a clue what's going on with Lost, but whatever is happening it seems to be coming to some sort of conclusion.

ALWAYS Sky+ Lost though, the ads are insane.