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My wife and I started to watch an old Peter Sellers movie on Crackle tonight. Using Crackle requires signing up on your computer. After I got my account squared away I started the movie, preceded by the opening commercials. To my disappointment, commercials interrupted the movie every 13 minutes! They ran the same drunk driving commercial 3 times in a row for every commercial break. After about 3 of these breaks, we stopped watching.
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More than commercials. They have, for me, made watching "regular" TV simply unbearable. And those ads are repeated with every commercial break. I think I will throw up in my mouth if I see that damn Chevy truck ad - the one with the Santa Claus-looking dude who travels north to Akron - one more time!!
And yet, the folks I live with get thoroughly indignant when I engage the mute during commercial breaks. What, you *really* want to hear this ad for the 500th time this month? Didn't we just see this very same ad during the last commercial break?
For this reason, I only watch things like Nat Geo, Smithsonian channel, and the odd (US) football game or auto/moto racing. Everything else is so polluted by commercials as to be unwatchable. IMHO, of course...
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is just f'n crazy. Especially when networks like TNT just insert the commercials with what seems to be complete disregard to the action onscreen. At least televised 1 hour dramas are written with breaks in mind so the interruption of flow, such as it is, isn't nearly as irritating.
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As you mentioned, it isn't simply the commercials themselves. It is the fact that they are inserted willy-nilly and do great harm to the pace of the story. For this reason, my GF and I have turned to Netflix, Vudu, et al, so that we can enjoy a good story in its entirety...
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lucky as we to have a terrific DVD section at yours.
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