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Re: Skipping the ads? BlackArrow raises $14.75M to defy you

Edwin Kyalangalilwa — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:29:04 -0000

Annoying, yes.

But, remember... SOMEONE has to pay the bill...

There is no restaurant serving a free lunch... at least none that you would WANT to eat at.
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Re: Skipping the ads? BlackArrow raises $14.75M to defy you

Sabrewings — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:53:19 -0000

Or, for those who are adventurous, build a seperate PC to handle a DVR's duties. Plenty of free programs that come with capture cards (or that you can get online) that won't accept this additional adds and you can fast forward like you used to.

All the fun, no fuss.

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Bill — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:36:49 -0000

And this is why I don't own a DVR. I KNEW that some fool would come along and try to force ads on me. Right now, I use that old standby the VCR and just fast forward through the ads (saving 17 mins of my life per hour of TV). Now they want to try to force me to watch ads? Naah, forget the DV-R.

I pay enough for Cable TV as it is. Just allow me to ditch the channels I don't want to watch (about 90% actually), and allocate my money to higher quality shows on the channels I do watch.

Re: Skipping the ads? BlackArrow raises $14.75M to defy you

Bruce Wagner — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:13:31 -0000

Annoying, yes.

But, remember... SOMEONE has to pay the bill...

There is no restaurant serving a free lunch... at least none that you would WANT to eat at.

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also — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:45:21 -0000

People who use the free/open-source Media Portal (much like Myth, but for Windows instead of Linux) also are not concerned with this news. Let the chumps watch ads to pay for my free content.

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WhizzMan — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:24:31 -0000

You'd be amazed how many people will put up with this if they get the DVR for free....

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Jeremy Toeman — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:19:36 -0000

Where did the 25% of US households have DVRs stat come from? The most aggressive number I've seen to-date is around 15%. Here are some more stats for you: http://adage.com/mediaworks...

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Ryan Gardner — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:49:08 -0000

Yeah, good luck getting MythTV to check something like this into the trunk :)

The sorry folks who pay for some inferior DVR will have to suffer with this crap - but not the smart folks who build their own and use MythTV.

Re: Skipping the ads? BlackArrow raises $14.75M to defy you

Digital501 — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:22:06 -0000

I wonder when we are going to start seeing ads that are actually part of the content instead of breaking up the content. Things like a website where you can lookup the clothes the actors were wearing and buy them online. That seems like it would be more effective and much less annoying.

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annoyed — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:49:58 -0000

what a fricken annoying company

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Matt Marshall — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:12:35 -0000

Thanks, just updated.

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zheng — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:57:57 -0000

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