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> Of course, they'll still need to find a way to make money off of their content, and that's an understandably tricky situation. Not particularly. TV networks
by electromagnetic 15y ago
> Of course, they'll still need to find a way to make money off of their content, and that's an understandably tricky situation.
Not particularly. TV networks regularly make money off of their content online. I can go to virtually any networks website and stream an episode of whatever and get adverts in the regular breaks. Why not simply do the same with a movie?
People don't care about giving up 18 minutes of their lives for 42 minutes of a show. Why do the movie networks have such a hard time grasping that people will gladly give up 30 minutes of their lives to advertisers for a 90 minute film.
I genuinely think they don't do this simply so they can say "well people are stealing because they just don't want to pay".
- bluedanieru 15y agoI would not sit through 18 minutes of commercials for a 42 minute show, neither 30 minutes for a 90 minutes film. I don't mind watching commercials (for television particularly), but your numbers are really, really high.
- westicle 15y agoIt might surprise you to know that is the standard length of advertising in a one-hour block of commercial television. So I imagine you do sit through 18 minutes of commercials for a 42 minute show.
- bluedanieru 15y agoIt doesn't surprise me at all. But I don't watch broadcast television.
- trafficlight 15y agoI don't watch broadcast or cable TV anymore because I don't want to watch 18 minutes of ads every hour.
- Avenger42 15y agoThe issue I see with that is that we've grown accustomed to breaks in our TV shows, whereas we would likely see any break in our movie experience as jarring and negative. Something more like YouTube's banner ads along the bottom might work.
- electromagnetic 15y agoBanner ads piss me off more than a commercial break. I'm used to advert breaks in movies around the holidays when every network runs old movies so I'm sure it wouldn't be a huge leap. Perhaps cut the breaks to every 30 minutes or so. An advert break every 10 minutes in Titanic would likely induce suicide.