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Well, you get the crappy channel subsidized with adverts, otherwise it would either be too pricey or server just utter cheap worthless unwatchable trash (mostly

Well, you get the crappy channel subsidized with adverts, otherwise it would either be too pricey or server just utter cheap worthless unwatchable trash (mostly). Would you like to pay say 1 dollar per movie and watch significant amount of ads during it?

billytetrud 5y ago
> Would you like to pay say 1 dollar per movie and watch significant amount of ads during it? No I wouldn't.
eurasiantiger 5y ago
If the ads appeared in-world instead of replacing the program material, I would have no problem with this.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y ago
  Advertising in movies and tv series is huge. I hadn't really noticed smoking on screen much at all in a decade or so until I got Netflix. Netflix has a massive cigarette addiction. The other two things I notice a lot are cars and phones / computers. It has been projected that 11.44 billion U.S. dollars would be spent on product placement in the United States in 2019, up from 4.75 billion in 2012 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/261454/global-product-placement-spending/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/261454/global-product-pl...