• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It is worse than broadcast.

    If you learn anything about screenwriting, there are certain patterns and structures you follow (like acts in a play) to accommodate commercials, like to build suspense and keep the viewer interested and not changing the channel.

    Streaming never had this, if you look at shows written for these platforms. The writers either ignored or didn’t even know about these conventions.

    Now adding commercials later, it is even more annoying to the viewer as the original material was not meant to accommodate them.

    Streaming just keeps fucking up. I already canceled my netflix. I’m on basic cable for network tv and I just pirate everything else.

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      9 months ago

      Wait… They add advertising in the middle of shows? I thought it would be at the beginning, between episodes, on the UI, etc.

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        9 months ago

        Nope, it’s classic ad breaks, but since the shows weren’t made expecting them the ads just appear suddenly every X minutes instead.

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      9 months ago

      And with streaming, you’re not locked into a 42-47 minute long episode either, so are some episodes going to have more, or is there someone with a stop watch going “this seems like a good place for an ad break”?

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      By streamers ignoring all the decades of broadcasting experience, and all established what’s fair air-time for both content and commercial. That’s the frustration… they’re rewriting standards… “my company, my content, my timings, my bottom-line”. And doing it poorly. And at top speed.

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      9 months ago

      Why are you on basic cable for network tv? It’s broadcast over the air in HD for free.

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      9 months ago

      Get an hdhomerun or equivalent for local TV at home in a streaming format. It even integrates into Plex for DVR.

      • pirat@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        A cheaper solution (if you’re already running a server) would be TVheadend and a cheap USB-dongle for DVB-T, DVB-C or DVB-S.