tv adverts

romperstomper · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:40

Just wondering how many people find watching tv with so many adverts a waste of time !
A film comes on with all the credits just finished you settle down on the sofa with a tea and some food and 3 mins later adverts for 5 mins :mad:

You change channels after all you have over a 100 to choose from ..adverts on all of erm :mad:

I use to enjoy The Bill but adverts every 10 mins is to much and I always end up back on my pc losing interest in what ever I was watching .
It would be okay but we pay for the tv channels !
Anyway I've had my moan back to oblivion

Kobrakai · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:42

Don’t watch TV then, I don’t

Red and White · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:42

money makes the world go round. or so they say

[TW]Fox · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:43

romperstomper said:
I use to enjoy The Bill but adverts every 10 mins is to much and I always end up back on my pc losing interest in what ever I was watching .

The Bill has had 3 advert breaks per 1 hour programme (So not every 10 minutes) ever since it moved to 1 hour format a number of years ago. Prior to that, it had one set of adverts per 30 minute show, so not really any different.

It would be okay but we pay for the tv channels !

You don't actually pay a penny for ITV. The advertisments do.

Megahurtz400 · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:44

Kobrakai said:
Don’t watch TV then, I don’t

+1

<F0rb> · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:44

J1234 · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:45

I hate Sky One adverts, they last aaages

Red and White · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:45

[TW]Fox;10407715 said:
You don't actually pay a penny for ITV. The advertisments do.

you don't pay for any channels on freeview they are all funded by ads. apart from the bbc of course, they just advertise the repeats they are showing for 3 minutes instead and laugh as the big bosses get massive bonuses that come directly from license fees :mad:

Morba · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:45

[TW]Fox;10407715 said:
You don't actually pay a penny for ITV. The advertisments do.

a small portion of the tv license goes to ITV does it not?

Muffin` · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:49

Morba said:
a small portion of the tv license goes to ITV does it not?

Thought was Ch4?

gizmoy2k · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:51

Going to get worse nearer christmas

Be thankful we dont get as bad as the yanks
Take Friends for instance,

you get opening credits>advert>8mins>advert>8mins>advert>closing clip>adverts>new episode

Word is its coming here :mad:

Reeve · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:51

The only adverts that really annoy me are the piracy ones on dvds and adverts in cinemas in general, why the **** should i pay to watch adverts??

Morba · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:51

[DW]Muffin;10407751 said:
Thought was Ch4?

S4C by the looks of it.
knew it was another channel of some sorts!

eddiemcgarrigle · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:54

It cheeses me off when the volume suddenly rises when the adverts come on. If I wanted it louder, I would have done it myself.

RobH · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:00

Reeve said:
The only adverts that really annoy me are the piracy ones on dvds and adverts in cinemas in general, why the **** should i pay to watch adverts??

Totally agree, the only place you find these ads are where people have specifically payed money to watch, the people who are least likely to pirate it.

This is my favourite anti-piracy ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow

Haircut · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:00

eddiemcgarrigle said:
It cheeses me off when the volume suddenly rises when the adverts come on. If I wanted it louder, I would have done it myself.

They're looking into that:
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/focus/background_briefings/TV+Ad+Sound+Levels.htm

Although, as the article points out there are already rules in place and it's mostly just perceived loudness.

Morba · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:05

its bloody not perceived! its actually very annoying :]

Dingleberry88 · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:05

One of the reasons I don't watch TV. I can't stand advertising.

WHAT!!! · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:18

I hate adverts to, I usualy go channel flicking during them but most channels have adverts on at the same time which does'nt help which is why i loved ABC 1 so much and hated to see it go as there adverts was out of sync with othe channels so I could always pop over to that to cut them out.

What i've been doing recently is recording what I want to watch on the V+ box and then watching it then skipping the adverts which if you think about it you can get maybe a few hours of free time as 20 mins or so of adverts for every our of TV you watch will soon add up.

Bony Maloney · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:18

Live pause is your friend. I haven't watched adverts on telly for 2 years now, just fast forward through them.