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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by jon-wood on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:05PM (#19912782)
A typical show on a commercial channel here will have three ad breaks in a one hour slot, of about five minutes each, and then there’ll be a longer ad break between programs. It drives me mad now I’m used to video on demand, but not nearly as much as US TV would.
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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by mrguyorama on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:22PM (#19913514)
Hmm, I thought it was less than that. I still consider that to be unacceptable
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Re:Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a ... by swombat on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:33AM (#19928849)
I haven’t watched TV in years... when I’ve caught some movie on TV at my parents’ or my in-laws’, I’ve found the ad breaks to be a great opportunity to... leave and do something better with my time than watch this movie with stupid ad breaks.
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