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The Bear II


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Do you record TV programs to watch later so you can skip (fast forward) through the commercials  ?

Or do you record the first 15 minutes of a program and then go back to the beginning so you can fast forward through the commercials ?

I'm asking this out of curiousity for those of us who have Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) or Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) either through your satellite, cable provider or you bought one to use to record TV programs.  Last night I was watching Mythbusters that I had recorded the night before.  I zoomed through the commercials and wondered how many others do the same.

Up until the 70's you would have two 1 minute commercials every 15 minutes during a 1 hour program.  Then the networks began showing 4 - 30 second commercials.  Now it seems like you see 5 minutes of programming and then 5 minutes of commercials.

And yet due to the DVRs/PVRs I wonder how many people actually watch these commercials.  Are the networks getting revenue from the advertisers and very few people are watching ??



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Luvglass


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We normally record programs that are playing while we are watching something else, or are not around for. And of course, we blow through the commercials on playback.

Our main problem now is that with Direct TV, our Distant Network Service comes out of NY on east coast time - and we are in Washington in Pacific time. Prime time shows start at 5:00, so we are recording just about everything for later viewing.

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All that advertising is wasted on us!  We record all of our favorite shows and then watch them later, skipping through the commercials.  Occasionally we'll watch them in delayed mode - waiting about 15-20 minutes after the start so we can skip the commercials.  Usually though we watch the fully recorded show the next day or even later in the week.  I doubt that we watch 1-2 live shows a month and even then we mute out the commercials.



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We record everything, including the off-air (local) channels, via DVR, even the news.  Last time I watched a full commercial break was when I was in a control room.  (I was in the TV biz for something like 45 years.)

 

Yes, the “networks” make money or there wouldn’t be TV.  More people (still) watch the commercials than you realize, even those with DVR’s.  How do we know?  Trust me, we know.  {Grin}

 

Safe travels

 

Bill



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Ditto's to what Ron said.

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Bill Adams


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We sometimes watch live TV if we have not recorded enough programs of interest, but "in general" we watch our recorded programming. We are currently watching the local news via the OTA antenna so we are stuck with commercials. Later we will watch last nights episode of Survivor and other programming we have taped yesterday.

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We watch recorded programs and no commercials. Even if a program is on that we want to see we wait and grab it later from the internet and watch it commercial free.

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We haven't had the TV on since we tested it in Camp Verde, AZ, last January. Books are good...

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We go out of our way to watch commercials. Every year on Super Bowl Sunday!!

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