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The commercials are too long, and they have the same problem Crackle does of showing the same commercials back-to-back-to-back-to-back... It actually really mak

The commercials are too long, and they have the same problem Crackle does of showing the same commercials back-to-back-to-back-to-back... It actually really makes me angry when they say "This episode of X presented with limited commercial interruption by Y" because there's nothing limited about it! Especially if it's new. They seem to have some kind of back-off algorithm so it doesn't show as many commercials for old stuff. But old stuff has a way of vanishing randomly. I'm thinking seriously of getting an old-school DVR and a massive antenna. Problem is, I live out in the sticks where I'll need a huge antenna just to get about half the broadcast TV.

timjahn 14y ago
The commercial breaks on Hulu+ range from 15 seconds to 1 min 45 seconds (I've found they're heavily on the shorter side for me). That's significantly shorter than commercial breaks on broadcast television or cable in my experience . Was it really that bad for you? (Genuinely curious).
- fusiongyro 14y ago
  When there are six of them it doesn't matter how long they are.
  - timjahn 14y ago
    There are at least as many on broadcast and cable. I still fail to see how the commercials on Hulu+ aren't the lesser of the two evils...
    - fusiongyro 14y ago
      So we went from "genuinely curious" to "I'm going to debate you until you decide to feel things differently." Like I said, where I live broadcast isn't an option without an expensive antenna. I have a cheap ($25) antenna and I get exactly one of three channels depending on how I orient it. The other options are cable without internet, which chafes badly, and satellite. The lesser evil I lived with for years was no TV at all. I prefer Hulu to nothing, but not to the other two options, and the question I was responding to above is "how can we do better than Hulu and Netflix?" not "how can I convince strangers to man-up and love shitty options?"
      - timjahn 14y ago
        Wow. Didn't realize this was such a touchy subject for ya. Forget I ever asked. :)
        fusiongyro 14y ago
        It's not a touchy subject. I'm just sick of everybody trying to turn every conversation into some kind of fact-war, especially when opinions are explicitly asked for. What do you think you're going to win?

timjahn 14y ago

The commercial breaks on Hulu+ range from 15 seconds to 1 min 45 seconds (I've found they're heavily on the shorter side for me). That's significantly shorter than commercial breaks on broadcast television or cable in my experience . Was it really that bad for you? (Genuinely curious).

fusiongyro 14y ago
When there are six of them it doesn't matter how long they are.
- timjahn 14y ago
  There are at least as many on broadcast and cable. I still fail to see how the commercials on Hulu+ aren't the lesser of the two evils...
  - fusiongyro 14y ago
    So we went from "genuinely curious" to "I'm going to debate you until you decide to feel things differently." Like I said, where I live broadcast isn't an option without an expensive antenna. I have a cheap ($25) antenna and I get exactly one of three channels depending on how I orient it. The other options are cable without internet, which chafes badly, and satellite. The lesser evil I lived with for years was no TV at all. I prefer Hulu to nothing, but not to the other two options, and the question I was responding to above is "how can we do better than Hulu and Netflix?" not "how can I convince strangers to man-up and love shitty options?"
    - timjahn 14y ago
      Wow. Didn't realize this was such a touchy subject for ya. Forget I ever asked. :)
      - fusiongyro 14y ago
        It's not a touchy subject. I'm just sick of everybody trying to turn every conversation into some kind of fact-war, especially when opinions are explicitly asked for. What do you think you're going to win?