How many commercials do we need, here?

Originally posted by ToMacco
I was one who was hooked on LOST after it came out on DVD.

So when I started to watch it on tv, I was disgusted by the number of commercials there are! Were there always this many commercials? Mother of God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah, i dont know why there needs to be five minutes of television. I rarely ever watch network television for that very reason. I dont even watch football as often as i used to because of the bombardment of commercials. Thankfully, hockey still has a very small amount of commercials.

I usually just go online and watch the shows im interested in through their sites. I only have to sit through one commercial every ten minutes when watching shows online. If i watched much network TV i would just get a tivo so i could filter the commercials out, but most of the shows im interested are on HBO. As much as commercial frustrate me, i will be even more pissed off when we start having to sit through advertisements online. I suggest just watching TV shows online

Football I give you that.

There is way too many of them.

Regular tv, meh, dont really care. It happens, and will continue to happen.

Baseball is another sport on where there isnt alot of commercials.

I really like how they only show one 15-second commercial at a time when I watch shows on Hulu. On the other hand, some companies don't use their advertising dollars well there... some show the same 15-second commercial during every break in a show they are sponsoring, even if it has like 5 breaks. One of them (Ragu) not only had a really boring and kind of stupid commercial but showed it over and over and over and over again. It directed us to some website of theirs, which was also really badly conceived of and boring. I don't usually do this but it was so annoying that I spent about 20 minutes emailing them to tell them everything they were doing wrong.

But usually it's nice to have such short commercial breaks 🙂 I like fast-forwarding through them on the DVR, too, because I can stop for ones that look interesting (rare but it happens) and get to the rest of the show faster. It's gotten so that we almost never watch shows live anymore because waiting through the commercials is so painful!