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Cool, now if they could not show ads for their paid service, that'd be great.
by allsystemsgo 10y ago
Cool, now if they could not show ads for their paid service, that'd be great.
- mark_l_watson 10y agoWe pay $12/month so Hulu diesn't show us ads. Really worth the extra money.
- hackerboos 10y agoThere are still ads on some shows even if you pay $12.
- hsod 10y agoIn case anyone was wondering, from https://help.hulu.com/articles/52427902#list https://help.hulu.com/articles/52427902#list "In response to feedback from our viewers, we started offering a commercial free experience on Hulu. For a small number of shows, however, we have not obtained the rights to stream commercial free and they are not included in our No Commercials plan. You can still easily access these shows with a short commercial before and after each episode with no interruptions during the episode. Specific shows that still have commercials accessible through the No Commercials plan will be noted throughout the signup, switching and playback experience. While the list of shows may change, they are currently: Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scandal, Grimm, New Girl, and How To Get Away With Murder." It's seven shows, and even on those the ads are only at the beginning and end they don't interrupt the show. I say we cut them some slack.
- wonks 10y agocringes Well, I admit there are only a few things they don't have the full rights to, and they're shows I don't watch, but I still find this grating. They said "ad-free" and I pay for that. Not "almost ad-free".
- qbrass 10y agoSo they pull the content that they'd have to show ads on, and now you're complaining that the paid tier has less content than the free tier does.
- sparky_z 10y agoAccording to the news coverage I've read, those shows don't have "commercial breaks", they just have a single commercial at the beginning and end. Honestly, who cares? Just hit mute and sit quietly for 30 seconds. I can't verify this for myself, because, although I'm a top-tier subscriber, I've never actually run across a Hulu commercial in the wild. Whichever shows those are, I guess I don't watch them.
- mark_l_watson 10y agoYou are correct, new, hot TV shows have ads, unless you wait a while. I have only watched series that already ran s I have not experienced any commercials.
- JTon 10y agoApparently, that exists. From the article: > Hulu will still have advertising. The two current paid tiers — $7.99 a month with some ads and completely ad-free at $11.99 a month — are going to remain.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThey have an ad-free tier. Some people prefer to pay slightly less for the ad-full tier.
- serge2k 10y agoFor 11.99 you get that for all but a handful of shows, and they tell you exactly which shows when you sign up.
- jpmattia 10y ago> Cool, now if they could not show ads for their paid service, that'd be great. They offer it, but just like cable TV before it, the ad-free tier will go away as soon as somebody applies pressure on the bottom line.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoIf they do, they'll lose a ton of their customers.
- ccvannorman 10y agoThey do and its exactly why i left them