Adverts in SKY programmes.
 

Hi all,
I only watch and record films mostly on my SKY+ box.
Part of the reason I choose SKY was Films are not broken with adverts.
Along with the splendid film: Van Helsing, I recorded the 1 hour, rather
than the 1/2 hour, because I thought it would be a fuller
behind the scenes programme on the making of Van Helsing.
Only to find it littered with adverts, so rerecorded it to computer and
edited them out, this made the 1 hour programme 38 Min 55 Sec.

Is this the beginning of adverts in all programmes?

Mick wrote:
Hi all,
I only watch and record films mostly on my SKY+ box.
Part of the reason I choose SKY was Films are not broken with adverts.
Along with the splendid film: Van Helsing, I recorded the 1 hour, rather
than the 1/2 hour, because I thought it would be a fuller
behind the scenes programme on the making of Van Helsing.
Only to find it littered with adverts, so rerecorded it to computer and
edited them out, this made the 1 hour programme 38 Min 55 Sec.

Is this the beginning of adverts in all programmes?


One of the many reasons that I gave up on $ky .....

"Mick" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I only watch and record films mostly on my SKY+ box.
Part of the reason I choose SKY was Films are not broken with adverts.
Along with the splendid film: Van Helsing, I recorded the 1 hour, rather
than the 1/2 hour, because I thought it would be a fuller
behind the scenes programme on the making of Van Helsing.
Only to find it littered with adverts, so rerecorded it to computer and
edited them out, this made the 1 hour programme 38 Min 55 Sec.

Is this the beginning of adverts in all programmes?


They certainly like their adverts!

Take Deadwood. This is what - a 45 min programme? so clearly it was
intended to run with 15 minutes of adverts.

Except that $ky have squeezed in 20 mins of ads, so that it now runs at 1:05

"Mick" wrote in message ...
Hi all,
I only watch and record films mostly on my SKY+ box.
Part of the reason I choose SKY was Films are not broken with adverts.
Along with the splendid film: Van Helsing, I recorded the 1 hour, rather than the 1/2 hour, because I thought it
would be a fuller
behind the scenes programme on the making of Van Helsing.
Only to find it littered with adverts, so rerecorded it to computer and edited them out, this made the 1 hour
programme 38 Min 55 Sec.

Is this the beginning of adverts in all programmes?




There are no adverts within a movie on the premium channel.
As you have seen there are adverts between the movies and in
programming on the premium channel that are not actual movies.

I am sure you have found when using SKY+ that adverts are a minor
annoyance, you'll soon get into the habit of recording virtually
all your programming.

It has to be said that if you want extensive extras for movies then
DVD is the only way to go and you get to see them months before
a movie even turns up on SBO let alone the normal sub channel.


Mike C

"Mike_C" wrote in message
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"Mick" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I only watch and record films mostly on my SKY+ box.
Part of the reason I choose SKY was Films are not broken with adverts.
Along with the splendid film: Van Helsing, I recorded the 1 hour, rather
than the 1/2 hour, because I thought it
would be a fuller
behind the scenes programme on the making of Van Helsing.
Only to find it littered with adverts, so rerecorded it to computer and
edited them out, this made the 1 hour
programme 38 Min 55 Sec.

Is this the beginning of adverts in all programmes?




There are no adverts within a movie on the premium channel.
As you have seen there are adverts between the movies and in
programming on the premium channel that are not actual movies.

I am sure you have found when using SKY+ that adverts are a minor
annoyance, you'll soon get into the habit of recording virtually
all your programming.

It has to be said that if you want extensive extras for movies then
DVD is the only way to go and you get to see them months before
a movie even turns up on SBO let alone the normal sub channel.


Mike C

I agree, I binned sky movies a couple of months ago and joined Tesco's
online DVD rental scheme. I havent looked back.
And now that E4 is on Sky as soon as I can be arsed getting an aerial sorted
it the lot can go.
I cant see the point of all those channels when all that is on is Friends,
The Simpsons, Location...., etc same **** day in day out. I feel like I have
already seen all the TV.

Rick

Mick wrote:

Is this the beginning of adverts in all programmes?

I think that the combination of more and more ads and ever higher
prices is going to be a classic own goal for Sky.

There are too many other cheaper and/or better options now (DTT PVRs,
DVD rental, NVOD via ADSL). They need to watch out or subscriber
numbers will start dropping fast. Even HD isn't the manna Sky probably
hope it will be: MPEG4 allows for HD at ADSL bitrates, especially if
it can be combined with a pre-loaded PVR service.

--
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The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/7rm2m
UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
BBC reception questions? ; http://www.astra2d.com/
Fed up with on-screen logos? : http://logofreetv.org/
----
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Jomtien wrote:
Mick wrote:


Is this the beginning of adverts in all programmes?

If it is, then I shall probably give-up watching TV altogther. To a
degree, I can understand the need for ads. on channels such as ITV, C4,
C5 etc. simply because they don't receive any licence fee monies. That
said, I think that the ad. breaks on such channels do seem to be more
frequent & longer in length now. In $ky's case, Murdoch et al are taking
the ****: charge you for watching, then have the neck to shove ads. and
endless promos. in most stuff too. The argument that without ads. some
of the channels wouldn't last is lame - if no-one can be arsed to pay
for the channel, it deserves to die.

I don't have any problem with ad. breaks between programmes, but with
the many breaks in stuff like drama programmes, you end-up loosing sight
of what the programme was about in the first place, at which point
there's no reason to keep watching.

What's even worse is the quality of the adverts - just how gullable do
they think most people are? A lot I suppose, given the banality of the
material. Product placement is a horrible alternative, but probably more
tolerable than endless ad. breaks.


I think that the combination of more and more ads and ever higher
prices is going to be a classic own goal for Sky.

Well, it doesn't seemed to have stopped them so far, with ~8m
subscribers. That would seem to imply that most of them can't be arsed
about adverets, and people such as you & I are in a minority.

There are too many other cheaper and/or better options now (DTT PVRs,
DVD rental, NVOD via ADSL). They need to watch out or subscriber
numbers will start dropping fast. Even HD isn't the manna Sky probably
hope it will be: MPEG4 allows for HD at ADSL bitrates, especially if
it can be combined with a pre-loaded PVR service.

Yeah, the only advantage there is that you can skip through ads. faster,
but they're still there.


Clem

Murdoch et al are taking
the ****: charge you for watching, then have the neck to shove ads. and
endless promos. in most stuff too.

No no it's worse, look at PPV for example:
You pay your subscription,
You pay for the event,
The event is "sponsored by.........."
AND there's the ads!!!

Sky rake it in four ways at the same time there!!!

"Nel" wrote in message
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Murdoch et al are taking
the ****: charge you for watching, then have the neck to shove ads. and
endless promos. in most stuff too.

No no it's worse, look at PPV for example:
You pay your subscription,
You pay for the event,
The event is "sponsored by.........."
AND there's the ads!!!

Sky rake it in four ways at the same time there!!!

I've been saying that since the old days of analogue along with Satgod
(whatever happened to him?)
Worse still now is people are sayng *Ads only APPEAR louder* however if they
do only appear louder,Then that means they actually are.
Watching UK Gold is 3 step volume switch, 1 - when the Ads come on,sound
down a few notches 2 - Promo comes on for UK whatever, sound down another
couple of notches, 3 - Sound back up for the programme!

A pity there's no in-line Automatic Volume control gizmo to plug into the
box between TV and Digibox to keep the volume at one level.

Sky+ is basically rendered useless as anything recorded is plastered with
dogs or/and Coming soon,So pointless to have *red dot removal* software!

It's third rate TV at First rate prices!

I'd love to see Sky One on similar to analogue TV and see how many *non-Sky*
subscribers who'd never seen the channel actually watch it...Even Channel 5
eventually removed their dog!

Perhaps todays children are the next batch of Sky subscribers,Hence CITV
Dogs and similar BBC dogs who in a few years will be posting to this group
saying "Dogs don't bother me,They've been on TV since I first began watching
it"
Years after that..."What do you mean,A CLEAR Screen on a TV Channel?"

T.W.

The Wizard wrote:

A pity there's no in-line Automatic Volume control gizmo to plug into the
box between TV and Digibox to keep the volume at one level.

My TV handles this nicely.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/7rm2m
UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
BBC reception questions? ; http://www.astra2d.com/
Fed up with on-screen logos? : http://logofreetv.org/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

Nel wrote:
Murdoch et al are taking
the ****: charge you for watching, then have the neck to shove ads. and
endless promos. in most stuff too.

No no it's worse, look at PPV for example:
You pay your subscription,
You pay for the event,
The event is "sponsored by.........."
AND there's the ads!!!

You pay for the adverts to be made by buying the products advertised on TV!

--
Stephen Chadfield
http://www.chadfield.com/