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Post by spectrum on Apr 3, 2023 14:41:30 GMT 1
There seems to be more and more adverts on the TV nowadays, there used to be a limit in each hour. We started to Watch "The Hunt for the Red October" yesterday we do have the DVD, so got to the first advert, and decided we was mad to watch it with all the interruptions, so put the DVD on, at the end the Tv version was 28mins behind, so 15/20 mins of adverts per hour, and all the bl*** same type . I know we are all going to pop off, but don't want reminding about it every ten minuets.
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Post by houpla on Apr 3, 2023 14:52:43 GMT 1
Ahhh the good old days of Come Dancing.... Perhaps the broadcasters feel that the older we get, the more 'comfort' breaks we need?
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Post by pcpa on Apr 3, 2023 17:24:19 GMT 1
I did the same measurement over a decade ago, probably 15 years when I first got UK TV in addition to French, it was 20 minutes per hour then, also any program made for TV would have the presenter or a voice over saying "welcome back, if you have just joined us.........." & then going on to describe what you had already watched often with repeat clips, if you added that to the 20 minutes of adverts it got very close to 50%.
And I do believe that it got worse after that.
I have however now found a solution that works without fail, I have not had a TV for 18 months!
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Post by Aardvark on Apr 3, 2023 18:09:12 GMT 1
I could manage it myself but the memsahib is addicted. I fully agree with your observation of the presenter coming on to remind us what we were watching only a few minutes ago. Here was me thinking it was the Americans that had a short attention span. And if its not ads for stair lifts, electric recliner chairs, cash advances against equity in you home, and Saga holidays its charities begging for funds for clean water, homeless girls, donkeys, dogs, and pretty much every animal native to the African continent.
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Post by houpla on Apr 3, 2023 18:35:50 GMT 1
It's not just TV, though I gave that up in 2003. What has slightly blighted my life recently is YouTube making everything payable and before that splattering adverts all over the place. Same with the free version of Spotify. It's a sad sign of the times that t'internet is so completely commercialised.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 3, 2023 20:26:07 GMT 1
I record anything I want to watch on channels with adverts, then skip the ads.
On the internet I use an ad-blocker, on desktop PC and phone.
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Post by Aardvark on Apr 3, 2023 20:40:25 GMT 1
That is useful if you have the facility to record TV stuff. I have several ad blockers on the computers here and ads are rarely a problem. Even pay walls on news sites can be circumvented. I usually just don't bother. I must say I have never seen an ad on Youtube but that may be because I don't use it a lot. On a phone I have never seen an ad but that might be because ours is hardly ever switched on. It doesn't work here, no network and the screen is too small for viewing much of anything in video format.
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Post by pcpa on Apr 3, 2023 21:34:14 GMT 1
I cant even watch a video accompanying a BBC news report from the BBC news app on the phone without having to sit through adverts, so much for it being a non commercial channel.
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Post by jardiniere on Apr 4, 2023 10:38:49 GMT 1
It's not just TV, though [img src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/embarrassed.png" alt=" " class="smile"] I gave that up in 2003. Do you watch everything via your computer? I'm tending more and more towards that and less via tv but I do worry about the effect on my eyesight.
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Post by houpla on Apr 4, 2023 21:07:35 GMT 1
I don't watch much except during the winter evenings, jardiniere, but yes I use the laptop. Sir has his horrible great flatscreen TV and speakers all over the place, but I prefer small(ish) and beautiful I did watch about an hour of TV with him last year. Simply couldn't believe the amount and dismal quality of the ads. It's the same story with radio. I gave up on the BBC and most French radio years ago because of the incessant publicity. Found an excellent Russian station with minimal chat and ads and what bit there is is blissfully incomprehensible
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Post by pcpa on Apr 4, 2023 22:13:01 GMT 1
Yes radio, especially French radio is the same for me, last summer I found a local station like Nostalgie except I dont think it was, after 22.00 they just had a playlist looping with no adverts and it was brilliant for me because due to the heat I could not return to the caravan to sleep till 4am so I would lie in a hammock strung across the trailer under a mozzie net listening to the station.
But I have forgotten both the name and the frequency, the car radio in the caravan loses its settings pretty much all the time and I expect the tuning knob on my workshop radio has been knocked off frequency, would you by any chance know what it was?
Years ago I would listen to internet radio stations on an internet radio but somehow the operating system got invaded by the same sort of thing that gets on the computer and puts adverts in between what you want to watch or hear, no matter what station wherever in the world including all the so called ad free ones became dominated by ads for Leclerc or Intermarché by either the Cheeky Chappy cretin or the voix mielleuse gonzesse, always the same 3 or 4 adverts between practically every song making it as bad as the worst radio station.
Also any DJ or people on chat shows seemed to say pretty much nothing but "euuhh", I once started making a count, over 40 per minute at times.
I know a couple of English Didjés here, I think I might have to pay them to borrow various playlists but then I would have to buy something modern which would accept whatever media they use.
I very very rarely listen to music now because of the inane chatter, euuhs and publicité.
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Post by houpla on Apr 4, 2023 22:32:38 GMT 1
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Post by pcpa on Apr 4, 2023 22:42:17 GMT 1
On that list was one that the patronne of a very chic resto told me about, I said I loved the music and where had she got the playlist and she said it was a radio station called FIP.
Now I know why I have not found it, its an internet radio station.
No point me trying to listen on the laptop, most stuff and especially Youtube videos are quieter than the computer cooling fan, the only things that come out load, bloomin annoyingly loud are publicity that shouts out from a page that you are reading neither wanting nor expecting any sound.
I will bring down the Internet radio from my next trip to Picardie, I have a feeling that it can only recieve stations via the portal it uses which has been invaded by the Cheeky Chappy Cretin and the Gonzesse, not sure it will get FIP and if it does it will probably still have the incessant crap from Interclerc.
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Post by pcpa on Apr 4, 2023 23:32:13 GMT 1
I found the station, the old school manual radio was still tuned to it and it is in fact Nostalgie although I'm sure there was another local station. Anyway it was playing French music & I recall the earlier program used to be 100% French, at minuit it changed to Deesgo Feevurr and after 30 minutes still no adverts just the Nostalgie Deesgo Feevurr jingle between tracks. Same playlist as a year ago though, all my favorites but I will soon get fed up with them repeating. Thats me set up once again for the longer later summer working hours!
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Post by houpla on Apr 5, 2023 7:26:45 GMT 1
If /when you get fed up with it, have a look at these...https://www.sony.fr/wireless-speakers/gallery. I've got an SRS XB30 and it's worth every centime
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