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The endless interruptions of adverts every 5 minutes does tend to encourage me that the experience of US television is worse. Some of the actual content is muc
by richardwhiuk 8y ago
The endless interruptions of adverts every 5 minutes does tend to encourage me that the experience of US television is worse.
Some of the actual content is much better, but the experience of watching television in the US is drastically worse.
- irrational 8y agoIf you are seeing commercials, you are doing it wrong.
- UpperBodyEimi 8y agoI'm confused by this, how do you avoid commercials. From watching the off NFL game there's even like pre-commercial commercials. "Brought to you by <some american car company> and <drink> the official drink of <whatever> and McDonalds - I'm loving it".
- jki275 8y agotivo, netflix, amazon prime, hulu, etc. I don't watch network tv anymore. Well, I don't actually watch TV at all, but you get the picture.
- UpperBodyEimi 8y agoI don't know about Tivo, but are all of the rest of these not available in Europe...?
- jki275 8y agoWell, I'm using Tivo just to refer to any timeshifting device, there are plenty. I thought the others were available in some form in EU, but I could be wrong.
- UnpossibleJim 8y agoAccording to demographics, the market share of people watching broadcast television vs people watching "alternative media" (read streaming) was less than 50% as of the end of last year, I believe, according to some studies (though they were surveys, so it's hard to say exactly how accurate they are, but the pendulum is definitely swinging) EDIT: In an American survey, but this did include YouTube as a form of streaming media