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Or they'll just cut out part of the movie and give you 90 minutes of ads with 90 minutes of movie. Australian free to air networks have done this.
by flukus 9y ago
Or they'll just cut out part of the movie and give you 90 minutes of ads with 90 minutes of movie. Australian free to air networks have done this.
- dvtv75 9y agoI saw that a few times in New Zealand, too. I think I've seen TV shows lose scenes and lines for more ads, as well. What really got me was back when the Battlestar Galactica pilot screened on TV. I was very keen to see it, and heard the pilot was three hours three minutes long. It was split up, on TV3 I think, into two 180 minute slots, which means there were almost as many minutes of ads as there were of the show. I had to turn it off after one scene was interrupted in the middle for an ad-break that was longer than the scene, then we came back for a single line (now out-of-context) and one camera change, then cut to another break. (For reference, it was a scene with the nuke hitting the Galactica, then six minutes of ads interrupted by about 25 seconds of show.) I turned off my TV, found an email address, and explained to them just why I was going to buy the DVD and not watch another second of their broadcast. TV advertising is so intrusive these days that I haven't watched broadcast TV in years.
- breakingcups 9y agoOr they will speed up the original movie or show so they can fit more ads. https://lifehacker.com/network-television-stations-speed-up-tv-shows-to-fit-in-1797131517 https://lifehacker.com/network-television-stations-speed-up-...