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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>jarpublic@gmail.com<br>
><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 14,
2009 1:46 PM<br>
><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users]
[OT] Study proves skipping commercials make TVless enjoyable</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>><br>
>I do feel like I am missing stuff sometimes (new show promos, the
occasional funny<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>>commercial, or products I would be interested in, etc). I don't
mind commercials<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>>that much actually. It is the fact that I have to see each
commercial so many times.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>>I would be fine if there was some way for me to see the commercials
once and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>>then never been shown them again. Sometimes it seems like that use
the exact same<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>>set of commercials and just repeat it for each commercial break.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I second the idea of unique commercials only. They are why I love my
mythtv box for skipping commercials. Seeing the same advertisements really
annoys me. No scratch that. It /really/ peeves me off.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I just went on a road trip for a friends wedding. We stayed at this
motel in the middle-of-nowhere <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
Mexico</st1:place></st1:State> where the wireless connection was painfully
slow and I gave up trying to stream my shows from mythweb back at home. So we
turned on the television. Since this trip was also the last weekend of the
year, the commercials were for the 3 car dealerships in the area. They all had
end-of-year clearance sales with no money down and only x99 a month and blah
blah blah shot of a guy driving a car through town where everyone waves at him
blah blah blah a truck driving through a large field stirring up dust behind it
blah blah blah. I hate those commercials. The worst one was this ad for a local
shop that was maybe 5 seconds long (where a guy just yells at you “we are
company X, we are doing a sale! Come on down now!”). We lost count when the
count got up into the 20’s. At one point they ran the ad _<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>5</span></i>_ times back-to-back. We tried switching
channels, but the channels with something watchable all had this over-weight
guy yelling at us! I have never wanted to stab another human being so badly in
my life. I don’t see how his commercial run over and over like that didn’t
give the entire town nightmares. I have no idea who he is, what he sells, or
anything about him but I can still see his flabby jowls flap around while he
yells at me. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We watched live tv for a little over an hour, maybe a little more.
Flipping through channels I am willing to bet we saw less then 10 different
commercials. Like I said before, we lost count on how many times they ran the
same ad’s over and over again. Returning home, I was never so happy to
watch TV from my Myth box commercial free.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Praise be to the dev’s who wrote the commercial-skip function
that saves me from these atrocities every day! Hip hip Hooray! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Stack<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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