This kind of reminds me of the true cost of mass transit..People paying to get on the bus really think the fares can support a mass transit system. If people who pay for ad free streaming really paid for what it costs to bring the content they would realize how subsidized their rates are. Content is expensive so watch ads or say goodbye to content.
I saw Thomas Ades “exterminating angel” in London a couple years back. Remember enjoying it. Included live sheep on the stage (altho disappointingly this turned out to be only before the humans came on:)
I switched to ad-free Hulu during the pandemic work from home times and, as long as I can afford it, I'll never go back. I loved running old sitcoms (Designing Women, for example) back to back to back to back with no ads through a work day, and it spoiled me.
I won't ever go back to ad TV. I'll just go back to watching my library of movies that we all bought during the dvd days or boot up my satellite dish and order channels al a carte. I stopped watching over the air tv when it went digital and I couldn't get PBS out of Tampa. The news became a joke when news became what was on whichever show they aired later and you got bombarded with 3 minutes of take this or that drug commercials followed by about a minute of actual news.
I have the ad version of Hulu, mainly because the “cost” of spending the time watching the ads is less that the cost of the ad-free version (I usually read a book during commercials). Since I’m a cord-cutter, this means that the only time I ever see political ads is when I watch a Hulu show. In other words, without Hulu, how would I know who to vote for? (That was a joke.)
Sonny, I have Criterion Channel thanks for the heads up on 'Exterminating Angel'.
This kind of reminds me of the true cost of mass transit..People paying to get on the bus really think the fares can support a mass transit system. If people who pay for ad free streaming really paid for what it costs to bring the content they would realize how subsidized their rates are. Content is expensive so watch ads or say goodbye to content.
I saw Thomas Ades “exterminating angel” in London a couple years back. Remember enjoying it. Included live sheep on the stage (altho disappointingly this turned out to be only before the humans came on:)
I switched to ad-free Hulu during the pandemic work from home times and, as long as I can afford it, I'll never go back. I loved running old sitcoms (Designing Women, for example) back to back to back to back with no ads through a work day, and it spoiled me.
I won't ever go back to ad TV. I'll just go back to watching my library of movies that we all bought during the dvd days or boot up my satellite dish and order channels al a carte. I stopped watching over the air tv when it went digital and I couldn't get PBS out of Tampa. The news became a joke when news became what was on whichever show they aired later and you got bombarded with 3 minutes of take this or that drug commercials followed by about a minute of actual news.
I have the ad version of Hulu, mainly because the “cost” of spending the time watching the ads is less that the cost of the ad-free version (I usually read a book during commercials). Since I’m a cord-cutter, this means that the only time I ever see political ads is when I watch a Hulu show. In other words, without Hulu, how would I know who to vote for? (That was a joke.)