Cynthetiq

mephisto,

I pay for cable, and they insist on putting a bug on the side of the screen to advertise their channel, they put a moving thing taking up the lower 1/3 of the screen advertising the new show coming up next week. I paid for it yet I still get advertising.

I buy DVD so that I don't have the commercial interuptions from series like Xfiles, Buffy, etc. I get advertisements on some of the new region coding enhanced discs and cannot even skip them or fast forward thru them. They have incapacitated my DVD play to not allow any functions during that playback.

Okay, I pay extra for HBO, that's currently the only bastion left with minimal advertising, but there is product placement in the Sopranos and the like, they will get more obtrusive as people demand more profits from companies. IMHO, it's only a matter of time.

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