No Mark33 we all think adverts are rubbish… we’d rather be watching the TV show we switched the telly on for in the first place.
Hmm did you really come on a forum simply to ask about something as mundane and annoying as adverts anyway? It reminds me of the time a chap on the 4 Car forum kept going on about how good Ford cars were; it turned out he was from their marketing department.
Ohh and as for adverts, if you haven't noticed they are shown on all non BBC channels. The most annoying time is when they are put on during sporting coverage, or during a film. Then we come to stupid entertainment updates that are appearing during films; do the producers really think that we want out films broken up so we can see which actor or musician has got themselves drunk or whatever? Ohh and the idiotic continuity people who feel the need to talk over the theme tune or shrink the credits so that they can plug some stupid reality show.
I think trails have their place - otherwise in the cluttered TV schedule we'd never know what was going on - and I hate missing a good programme coz their just so hard to come by thse days! (I know, I'm just a goggle-eyed TV junkie!) - and I suppose we are so conditioned to switch off during adverts, they need to be particularly snazzie to catch our attention.
I suspect that the advertising revenue that TV companies get is just too great for them to ever consider dropping ads say in favour of subscription TV - that's why I sort of object to being charged so much by Sky, when I can't get a terrestrial signal anyway.
...AND it really annoys me when they put the ad slots all at the same time so that you can't find a single channel that hasn't got adverts (apart from BBC and QVC and News24 - which is where I usually end up)...
Loved his comment that he'd send his used underpants to the Third World, bet they'll be really grateful - what a prat he was, glad he couldn't take it & went back home, hope he stays in Las Vegas forever.
At the risk of sounding like an advertisement myself, I have found Sky Plus to be an excellent advertisement blocker. Even if you want to watch something on the same day it's broadcast, you can do this: Change channels at the start of the programme you want to watch, ignore it for the first ten minutes or so (basically, enough time to account for all the breaks in the show), then rewind to the beginning. Now you can just fast-forward through the adverts ..... it's almost like having 70 or more BBC channels!
