<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Mitch Gore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mitchell.gore@gmail.com">mitchell.gore@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Well, NBC made Hulu to compliment TV. <br></blockquote></div>/snip/<br><br>I agree, and it is so ironic. hulu shows were the *only* time I watch
advertisements. I don't even mind watching them because it's just
*one* ad and it's 30 seconds long. Not a long enough break to leave
the room and/or ignore the ad. <br><br>Before DVR, on ad breaks I would mute the volume and read, talk to my
spouse, leave the room, maybe even stop watching if I realized the show was bad in my moment of free thought.<br><br>With DirecTivo, I fast forwarded/30 sec skipped through 4+
minute commercial breaks.<br><br>With Myth and my OTA shows... auto commercial skip. My giddiness is only tempered by a slight pang of guilt as I see about 3 blank frames where the ad break would have been. (Sometimes I even wish there was a way to watch just one commercial per break. I know, I'm crazy... But zero commercials does kind of take me out of the loop on what the kids are talking about these days ;-).)<br>
<br>Along came hulu, which
resurrected ad watching for me, and I didn't even mind it, maybe I even liked it! Now they
are trying to take the advertisers "in" with me away. If they realized what was happening, at least in my household, those hulu ads should sell for a kings ransom because it's not a compliment to TV, it's the *only* ad supported TV I watch! Boxee enables me to be comfortable while *actually watching and paying attention* to the
ads! If that's not what the content providers want, their shows can rot as far as I'm concerned.<br><br>When are they going to get it? Stop clinging to the past and embrace the future!<br>