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In Reply to: RE: A pain in the butt -- Crackle posted by barryb on December 28, 2013 at 19:28:08

More than commercials. They have, for me, made watching "regular" TV simply unbearable. And those ads are repeated with every commercial break. I think I will throw up in my mouth if I see that damn Chevy truck ad - the one with the Santa Claus-looking dude who travels north to Akron - one more time!!

And yet, the folks I live with get thoroughly indignant when I engage the mute during commercial breaks. What, you *really* want to hear this ad for the 500th time this month? Didn't we just see this very same ad during the last commercial break?

For this reason, I only watch things like Nat Geo, Smithsonian channel, and the odd (US) football game or auto/moto racing. Everything else is so polluted by commercials as to be unwatchable. IMHO, of course...

-RW-

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MNovies on commercial channels are now verbotten in Casa Nasty. Stretching a 2 hour movie to 3 hours - Road Warrior 17:35:27 12/31/13 (1)
is just f'n crazy. Especially when networks like TNT just insert the commercials with what seems to be complete disregard to the action onscreen. At least televised 1 hour dramas are written with breaks in mind so the interruption of flow, such as it is, isn't nearly as irritating.
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- I agree... - rlw 12:08:50 01/03/14 (0)
  As you mentioned, it isn't simply the commercials themselves. It is the fact that they are inserted willy-nilly and do great harm to the pace of the story. For this reason, my GF and I have turned to Netflix, Vudu, et al, so that we can enjoy a good story in its entirety...
  
  -RW-

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