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I recently bought a TV after spending all 7 years of my post-high school life without a TV. I gotta say, I missed switching on the TV, leaning back and just dr

I recently bought a TV after spending all 7 years of my post-high school life without a TV. I gotta say, I missed switching on the TV, leaning back and just droning off, remote in hand. On-demand video is great, but it requires too much involvement. This isn't a bad thing, necessarily, but sometimes, you want to turn on a screen and just push channels. Another problem with YouTube: too many ads. I can't count the number of times I've skipped a clip because of a pre-roll ad. I'm okay watching a 30 second ad if the clip itself is 30 minutes long. But a 30 second ad to watch a 45 second clip? Please. I've got better use of my time.

corobo 12y ago
> But a 30 second ad to watch a 45 second clip? That doesn't happen. At least be realistic in your arguments please. Maybe sometimes you might get a skippable advert that long but you can skip those after 5 seconds "Ads can be a maximum of 15 seconds (next to short-form videos <10 minutes long), or 30 seconds (next to long-form videos >10 minutes long)." http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.youtube.com/en//yt/advertise/medias/pdfs/instream-onesheeter-en.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.youtube.com/en...