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    Default Pre-Movie Commercials Worse than Piracy?

    LOL.... I'd love to see this guy get his class-action some traction....

    http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/10/...se-than-piracy

    Here's a snip:
    Being subjected to advertising is just something we’ve come to expect in our daily routines, and for most of us, we’ve become so conditioned to various advertising methods that we don’t even think twice about it. There is nothing wrong with advertising in and of itself. It’s how we learn about products, services and entertainment. Advertising is also the big main source of revenue for things we hold dear like television and The Movie Blog (which is 100% funded by advertising), so I’m certainly never going to rail on the evils of advertising.

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    has he started a class-action?
    “… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dmp View Post
    has he started a class-action?
    He should..>:P

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    Yeah, I love paying eight dollars to see advertisements. We've actually begun to pay corporations to advertise to us. Unbelievable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hagbard Celine View Post
    Yeah, I love paying eight dollars to see advertisements. We've actually begun to pay corporations to advertise to us. Unbelievable.
    Actually, folks have been doing that for years with Cable TV and Satellite TV...

    Both services charge customers yet still show the same amount of commercials as "free TV"...

    IMO - Cable or Satellite TV should be like XM Satellite Radio with reduced or no commercials - "free TV" would, of course, be supported by ads....

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    Quote Originally Posted by -Cp View Post
    Actually, folks have been doing that for years with Cable TV and Satellite TV...

    Both services charge customers yet still show the same amount of commercials as "free TV"...

    IMO - Cable or Satellite TV should be like XM Satellite Radio with reduced or no commercials - "free TV" would, of course, be supported by ads....
    the same in the uk
    sattelite and cable full of ads apart from movie channels who are sponsored by
    the bbc is the channel with no ads apart from internal and political broadcasts however we do pay a liscence fee each year for that privelidge
    this allows them to make ground breaking tv well did allow them to not since black adder and red dwarf have they broke any ground

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    Quote Originally Posted by -Cp View Post
    Actually, folks have been doing that for years with Cable TV and Satellite TV...

    Both services charge customers yet still show the same amount of commercials as "free TV"...

    IMO - Cable or Satellite TV should be like XM Satellite Radio with reduced or no commercials - "free TV" would, of course, be supported by ads....
    Very good point!
    “… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.

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    I hate the fact that I PAY for satalite TV and I get a s**T load of commercials. This ticks me off to no end.

    I pay a premium for the variety of channels and they are all filled with more commercials than regular braodcast TV. I would love to see a class action lawsuit go forth on this!!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nukeman View Post
    I hate the fact that I PAY for satalite TV and I get a s**T load of commercials. This ticks me off to no end.

    I pay a premium for the variety of channels and they are all filled with more commercials than regular braodcast TV. I would love to see a class action lawsuit go forth on this!!!!!!
    The only way to change this problem is to have folks start teling their cable/satellite providers that they're going to cancel services unless the commercials stop...

    Tell them "If I want commercials, I'll gladly go back to free TV"...

    But that's a pipe-dream, folks will not dump their TV service...

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrg666 View Post
    the same in the uk
    sattelite and cable full of ads apart from movie channels who are sponsored by
    the bbc is the channel with no ads apart from internal and political broadcasts however we do pay a liscence fee each year for that privelidge
    this allows them to make ground breaking tv well did allow them to not since black adder and red dwarf have they broke any ground
    That's pretty funny, on this side of the Atlantic, a lot of us think the BBC is putting out some of the best television around! The Office alone was a groundbreaking, and it altered network television here in the States in a major way.

    Just curious, do you guys have no choice but to pay that liscence fee, like it's in your taxes, or do you just pay if you want BBC?
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    I'll trade two minutes of ads, for the jerk kicking the back of my chair at every movie.
    After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    I'll trade two minutes of ads, for the jerk kicking the back of my chair at every movie.
    That's one of MANY reasons that I don't go to Theater's anymore...

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    Quote Originally Posted by dan View Post
    That's pretty funny, on this side of the Atlantic, a lot of us think the BBC is putting out some of the best television around! The Office alone was a groundbreaking, and it altered network television here in the States in a major way.

    Just curious, do you guys have no choice but to pay that liscence fee, like it's in your taxes, or do you just pay if you want BBC?
    we gotta pay by law if you havent got a tv you have to prove it
    ah yes the office i forgot
    however i got a chance to watch the first two seasons of the us version and i gotta admit it was a fantastic conversion and whole heartedly believe it even funnier than the origional i know gervaise directed or produced but carole owned it
    also dont forget dr who that started in the 60's but they have revamped it well
    considering they sell a lot of these progs around the globe the liscence fee keeps on going up
    over the years in the wake of sattelite tv and cable the other terrestial commercial channels have struggled slightly for revenue (via adds )
    but the bbc could litteraly have one viewer per channel but ....well

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    Yeah, that sucks.

    I also liked Spaced, a show that was on, I think, BBC4. It was by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the guys who did Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

    Extras is good (I know, I know, more Gervais!), I've heard great things about the new Battlestar Galactica (I'm not much of a sci-fi guy though), and if we're going for BBC classics, how much more influential on comedy can you be than Monty Python's Flying Circus? British TV rules!

    I do like the US Office, although I felt the first season stuck too close to the British one. I think we should do all our shows the way you guys do it, with seasons being six or eight episodes instead of 22, that's why American sitcoms get old so fast.
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    The theater chains are responsible for this, not the motion picture industry. The theaters sell the advertising.
    Not only that, but some theaters are combating the rise of people arriving late for movies (to avoid the ads) by not allowing entry after the lights go down.
    I learned this from my sister, who works for a movie studio.

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