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People with cable have DVRs and can trivially and reliably skip commercials. It's streaming where you lose control of being able to seek arbitrarily through the
by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
People with cable have DVRs and can trivially and reliably skip commercials. It's streaming where you lose control of being able to seek arbitrarily through the video stream. Cable customers are the ones who can avoid commercials.
- bavent 3y agoReally? I haven’t had cable since before DVRs were a thing, I didn’t realize you got one with your cable subscription now.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoFor a while the cable companies would partner with Tivo and provide a DVR as an upsell but now they all have their own DVR platforms and it's become the standard cable box.
- pests 3y agoIt's been built into the set top experience for near a decade. They used to compete on space offered or how many TVs could record at once.