Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Baseball is a 19th Century game. Television was 50+ years in the future.
a) I said “seem” designed
b) think it’s possible that there might have been some tweaks to the format in the past 100 years in order to allow more frequent and longer breaks in play
 
And now NBC will be pulling their shows from HULU, so if you watch any of them, you'll be forced to subscribe to yet another service if you want to continue.

I'm almost afraid to add up all the subscription fees... it probably costs more than just paying for cable TV with DVR - and requires a pile of apps and log-ins to do it.
Yeah, that kinda sucks that Hulu is losing that portion. Hulu is the closest thing for me to a "one stop shop" for all of my SS needs. However, as I've been jumping around many of them over the past year, I've gotten used to it. There isn't really anything I really need to see ASAP or "on a dime" that I couldn't just mentally queue it up to watch it later in the year, if not next year. Plenty of other content to keep my occupied on the SS I currently have subbed to :)

As for sub fees, can you rotate services? It's harder to do with groups (e.g. roommates, whole families), but if you only sub to 1 to 3 at a time, that should still be cheaper than cable TV. Even if it were on par, I'd prefer a suite of SS as cancelling is much less hassle, you don't need to deal with "regulatory fees", renting equipment, nor prices getting jacked up without telling you (and even then, with SS, competition's more fierce so there's a limit to that for that arena).

When visiting the USA I always found the amount of adverts insane... the ones that really boggled my mind were when an episode would end, you'd have commercials, then they'd show the closing credits, then they'd show even more adverts... or certain channels would speed up the programs to make a 30 minute show last 28 minutes in order to insert more ads.
This wouldn't normally bother me, as I usually quit when we get to end credits of a show or movie. However, those shows and films that have post-credit scenes and blurbs... THAT's murder!

Yeah, movies that have a run time of say, 2h22, but when viewed on TV will take a 3h time slot. On top of that, they still cut out portions of the movie, so you really only saw 1h50 of the actual movie! o_O

If they're really going to include ads, I really hope they add them at breaks in the action, and in between scenes. I really hate YouTube ads that come right in the middle of a word. I've seen some YouTube videos that have chapter marks. In other streaming services, maybe have ads between two chapter breaks.
FWIW, while YouTube puts ads in the middle of sentences or action sequences, at least they don't show them again, there, for awhile. One thing that infuriated me about Hulu was after watching an ad, if you rewind past the commercial break, you STILL need to watch that ad again!
 
I think you’ll find that you did.
”Hadn’t.” Past tense. Up to that point.

You inserted yourself with points which were irrelevant to the position I was stating and to which I responded “that’s fine.”
 
I had a TV at one point that had a cool little commercial timer on the remote. You'd press it once for each commercial you thought there might be (you start to get a feel for it once you start counting) and it would add 30 seconds to the timer. Then you could change channels to watch something else for a few minutes, and when the timer ran out, it would flip you back to the channel you were on. If you had counted right you'd rejoin your show right when it came back on.

Wow, really? I do remember having something from Sony that had a button with a timer on it. It worked for a few years, and then stopped for some reason. The advertisers want you to have to watch their commercials. Funny that one of the things that contributing to the wealth of commercials and other junk was brought to you by the nations realtors. They blocked legislation that would have limited commercials. Ironic, and sad.
 
  • Like
Reactions: ignatius345
How long will the four minutes per hour last? There is only one direction ad time goes.

What amuses me as I watch this field mature is that we are heading back to where we started. For a brief time we escaped from ads thanks to DVRs. I encounter so few TV ads these days that when I do encounter them I find them to be an all out assault on my senses, besides being generally an insult to my intelligence. I’d rather watch nothing than ever suffer through ads again.
Companies get more and more greedy and it just pushes consumers away. Then they have to raise prices which pushes more customers away and it just snowballs from there which leads to the death of the company.
 
Yeah, 4 minutes this year. Then in 6 months to year they bump it up to 6 and then to 12 plus they'll jack the price up to $40 or $50 a month and viola we're calling our local cable company begging to let us come back. In response they'll just laugh at us and tell us sorry Charlie they're making more money off of us now then ever before!
 
  • Like
Reactions: NightOne
That’s like claiming opium is good because it provides more vegan options.

Wait, that’s a bit cynical?

I genuinely enjoy the content Disney offer on Disney+. Therefore, I pay Disney for this. It’s my choice.

I’m not sure why everything has to be so negative. I just thought that if there are other people who would also like to watch the content but can’t afford the current plans, then new options that might allow them to (subsidised by advertising) are a good alternative to have.
 
  • Like
Reactions: SirAnthonyHopkins
I mean, go for it. As long as it gets you more customers and money for HQ series. I don't see a problem. As long as I can continue to watch Ad-free for a reasonable price.
 
This is actually from Apple. Apple will only let you watch 4k content on iphones, ipads or apple Tv’s.

If you have a Desktop PC or Mac, you cannot download/watch/listen to 4k Content or hi-res/lossless media, for some reason.
That is simply not true. I can watch 4k content on Disney+/Netflix via Safari on a Mac just fine.
 
To pay them for counting the money they will receive for pushing them on their viewers.

I am growing to HATE YouTube on the Apple TV. Commercials, commercial, commercials!!!

It's also incredibly funny that the commercials don't have caching pauses in them but the content after them does. (They actually cach before they are viewed leaving a few seconds of dead air so I have time to get the remote and mute them, plus sometimes the pause is just 'cosmetic' as the commercial never comes, and I have to hurriedly unmute whatever I was watching) I've also noticed a ruthless plot lately: Most of the more highly viewed content that I watcvh has commercials that I can't dump after 5-seconds. I have dumped out of the content because I get commercials 2 at a time, and can't bail after 5 seconds. Yeah, if I could, I'd go back in time and strangle the genius that discovered the gullibility of people to suffer through commercials. I remember they added cards bound into books at one time, and they ended up having to yank that. Can't we go back to 'sponsored' content with a brief blurb happening not more than 4 times through the viewing? Please...

This is why I love my non-Apple devices, I don't have to ever look at a single Youtube commercial/ad.
 
  • Wow
Reactions: PinkyMacGodess
Let's assume the free tier is half-price (I doubt it'll go that low).
So if I watch 20 hours a month, I'm still getting 80 minutes of ads. My time is worth way more than $4 an hour (rounding down in case it's not actually 4 minutes) and I don't really want to be interrupted.

I'd either rather binge every third or fourth month for the no ad tier for $8, or it'd need to be down to $1.99 for the version with ads. My time is still worth more than that, but now I'm saving $6 a month and I don't ever have to wait to watch anything.

We'll have to see...
 
How about put all the ads at the beginning. Then people can watch the shows or movies uninterrupted.
That would be amazing for us, the consumer, but not at all a good idea for the advertisers, and therefore would never happen. Unfortunately this needs to work for them as well in order for this to work at all. There's a reason Hulu hasn't done it that way in many many years, it just doesn't work.
 
Nothing. Because the article clearly states that the Disney executives already alluded to that, in this very article, the one you just commented on.
Is that how it works?

Sorry, I just read headlines and guess at whatever the article says. Reading takes too long. I’m thankful your comment is short and I can type a response without wasting my time too much explaining obvious things.
 
This is actually from Apple. Apple will only let you watch 4k content on iphones, ipads or apple Tv’s.

If you have a Desktop PC or Mac, you cannot download/watch/listen to 4k Content or hi-res/lossless media, for some reason.

Movie studios/music label controls what media gets upgraded and send them to apple and apple is the one who publishes them for the Public, but for the moment all high quality media is not an option for watching or downloading Which i did as a means to back up my legal purchases.

It’s a valid complaint IMHO because I own a majority of media but I can’t download them for offline use Outside the ios devices.

This is not correct, Netflix and the iTunes store send 4K/UHD content to Macs (well, newer Macs, you need a T2 or M1 chip and an HDCP 2.2 compliant display), at least via streaming.

Granted, the developer documentation for the DRM is virtually unusably bad, and I suspect that unless Apple's own developers talk you through it you'd ever be able to make it work, but the APIs certainly exist.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.